Captains Courageous
Harvey Cheyne is a very rich and arrogant boy that falls off a steamer into the Atlantic Ocean. A fishing boat called the, We’re Here, picks him up out of the ocean and soon he is informed that he can’t go back to his home in America until fishing season ended in about 3 months. During his stay, he becomes nicer, gets to know the parts of the ship, and gets better at fishing. After some months, the We’re Here arrives to their last stop, which is called the fishing town, until they head home. At the fishing town, they fish until all their salt to preserve their fish in are gone and then, they start heading home. During the trip home, he starts to appreciate the ocean and people notices the changes that Harvey undertook, from a haughty boy to a nice and kind boy. There is a happy reunion when his parents meet him and during that both of his parents notice how humble Harvey became and then, they go back home.
In this book, Harvey Cheyne
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is clearly the main character. Being the only child of a rich dad, he is very spoiled and arrogant. Since he is rich, he has lived in many parts of the United States during his 15 years of living, and was going to England for his education when he falls off the steamer. Being very arrogant he shows no respect at all to any adults and lots of people don’ t like him. For example, when Harvey was on the steamer, the people on the steamer think he is a nuisance. On the steamer, he didn’t care if a fishing boat got crushed by it and actually wanted the steamer to crush fishing boats. He is the typical arrogant kid until he falls off the steamer to the fishing boat. On the boat, he learns how to be humble, how to respect adults, and actually starts to regret his old self. After this big change, many start to like him. From a very disrespectful, mean, and proud boy, Harvey changes into a humble, respectful, and kind boy. The biggest conflict in the book, Captains Courageous, is Harvey fighting against himself to be a better person.
Being the bad boy at the beginning, his months at the sea gradually change him. Being one of the youngest in the fishing boat, Harvey slowly learns how to respect older adults. One time, the captain of the boat knocks him out for disrespecting him. He gets to know what respect is and when he meets with his parents afterward, he starts to respect them. In the fishing boat, money doesn’t really matter. Harvey being the rich boy tries to brag about his money, but no one believes him except for another boy in the fishing boat. This makes him talk less and less about money and soon doesn’t care that much. All the wealth he had on at the beginning of the book didn’t really matter to Harvey now. He started to actually disgust wealth; it says in the book ‘he despised fancy blazers now with all a fisherman’s contempt.’ Through all these experiences, other people notice that Harvey’s attitudes were changing a
lot. The book’s overall lesson about life is that a person can change as time goes by. Harvey tries to do his best on the fishing boat, which results in Harvey becoming a better person. Before his change, he wouldn’t listen to anyone, but on the fishing boat he tries to listen to advice and listen so that he could become a greater fisherman. For example, on the first day on the boat, Harvey says to Dan that he will try working and listened to Dan as he explained how to get a dory (a small fishing boat) on to he fishing boat, We’re Here. This book is telling us that people that seem bad can change into good people. All bad people have some good in them that could be activated and become a better person. Through this book, we know that Harvey accomplished what he needed the most. In this novel, I think the author is telling us about many worldviews. The fist one is that the author is trying to tell us that poor, but hard working people can be a better person than a rich and lazy person. In the Bible it says in Proverbs 13:4, a lazy man has nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be rich. Another worldview is that the book is promoting good behavior and demoting bad behavior, which is the right thing. Diligently working is a behavior that everyone should try to get. Even though Harvey was a lazy worker, he tried to become diligent and he accomplished it. This tells us that everyone has the ability to work diligently. Another one was that people’ s lives were valued. At the sea, accidents happened, and many people die. The people in the fishing boats cared a lot about the dead and the fishing towns on the coast had meetings where they told the people who had died. The book says,” the fisherman pressed forward as that town official who had talked with Cheyne bobbed up on the platform and began to read the year’s list of casualties, dividing them into months.” Life was really valuable to theses people. These worldviews were what I understood from the book, Captains Courageous.
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