Captains Couragous
Edward Everett Hale's story "The Man Without A Country" and Rudyard
Kiplings book Captains Courageous are both fabrications in which the main
characters, Philip Nolan and Harvey Cheyne both go through drastic
changes in both life and attitude. Each learns a different life lesson, but in
a way that is slightly unpleasant.
Philip Nolan, also known as the Man Without a Country, wishes to
never hear of his country again, and his wish is granted. He spends the
last 56 years of his life on the sea, never but once hearing of his country
and, as most of us do at some point, doesn't realize how great a thing he
has until he loses it (pages 27-28). He makes this realization, that his
country, the United States of America, is wonderful and to be respected at
all costs. He becomes the most patriotic man (pages 32-33), along with
some help from a poem, that he begins to read aloud to the sailors during
some free time, about patriotism to a mans home (pages 17-18).
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