found Boat amoung other things
In Alice Munro’s short story “The Found Boat”, the significance of the spring flood is that the setting directly relates to that of the Biblical account of Noah’s Flood in the book of Genesis. ... Similarly, Eva and Carol simply discover the boat. ... This aspect of the story, and not the events themselves are what lead to a greater understanding of Alice Munro’s fictional work “The Found Boat. ... They are found at the beginning of the story trying to build a raft “…from lumber they had salvaged from the water(126).