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Flannery O 'Connor's Captain Heart'

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Captain Heart Analysis Captain Heart is a logical thinker that demands the scientific truth even if the answer he seeks is right in front of him. In the book Captain Heart has this want to find this mysterious figure that had just visited the planet hours before he landed. The mayor of the town goes on to tell us that he will miss the man by a smaller and smaller time for each world he goes to. But in the end he will never find him or see him. I interpret the meaning of this to be that one has to search inside of their self to find his/hers belief’s. The Captain takes this a different way and wants to physically find the man while the whole time the man could be found by looking inside yourself. The way he acts prevents him from doing this though. His actions are what make him seem discourteous and benighted. Throughout the story he is constantly yelling at people trying to understand what had happened the day before. On page 75 he even goes as far as shooting the mayor to get answers out of him. But as hard as he might try he doesn’t understand that you have to find him through a mental state instead of a physical one. When …show more content…

At the beginning of the story, page 65, the Captain really is confused about what is going on. While Martian is trying to explain to him what it was, page 65, he realizes that a God like figure had just appeared here. Instead of being happy about this fact he is furiously curious and has to find out where he is. Martian even tries to leave but the Captain thinks that he can’t defy his orders (page 69). This shows that he thinks Martian is foolish and doesn’t know what he is talking about. Near the end of the story, page 76, the captain thinks that he can “catch up” to the man while the mayor says “let’s not keep him waiting.” This shows that they were hiding the man, or it was more of a mental thing that was inside them. His logical thinking makes others react to him

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