Rudyard Kipling Captains Courageous

“Accustomed to judging people, his father watched him curiously. He compared the boy of today with the bored and impertinent brat from before, who enjoyed annoying “the old man” and making his mother cry… The young and robust fisherman standing before him did not lower his eyes, but looked at him frankly and serenely, speaking to him with a respectful and absolutely surprising tone. And the change seemed lasting, definitive. The new Harvey would always remain this way.” Published in 1897, the novel Captains Courageous tells the story of Harvey Cheyne, the spoiled and pampered son of a wealthy American businessman who, after falling overboard from a steamer navigating the ocean, is rescued and adopted by the crew of a schooner fishing in the North Atlantic. After a season on board, learning much about discipline and life at sea, the boy returns to his family profoundly changed and matured.