C. S. Forester’s Lieutenant Hornblower: Success and Failure In the novel Lieutenant Hornblower there were a few scenes were Hornblower was a success and a few were he was a failure. In my opinion the first success of Hornblower was when he used all the cannons on one side of the ship to free them from the mud holding the ship. Another success was when Hornblower suggested a landing attack on Samana Bay. The commanding officer agreed with his suggestion, and they put together a landing party.
Hornblower had the whole attack planed and the coordinates marked. His surprise attack on the Spanish at Samana proved to be a success. Once the fort was taken over he was successful in firing red hot shot at enemy ships, even without ever using that technique before. Then when the negotiation with the Spanish took place he had a brilliant idea to mount a nine pound cannon at the upper end of the peninsula to prevent the Spanish from escaping.
This enabled them to turn down the terms of the proposal that the Spanish wanted and get what they wanted without giving anything to the Spanish. These achievements made by Hornblower is what later earned him the command of the Retribution, although his command of the Retribution did not come until later when the war started again. Hornblower had also had a few failures that hindered his successes. Among these was when Hornblower was using the red hot shot to sink enemy ships. This was both a success and failure. It was a failure because after heating the shot for a considerably long period of time the shot began to deform.
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Success, Failure and my experience in our system of education In the book why they excel, we can see that American education system is good by looking from the result of the progress of technology and economic in this country but why Asian students is better than American students in United states, is it because of our system education is lower than their system education or from the quality of ...
This deformity of the shot wouldn’t allow it to fit into the cannon. Hornblower realized his mistake after one of the shots wouldn’t fit into the cannon. This slowed their operation down but didn’t cause a defeat to them. The situation with Hornblower gambling is mostly in my opinion a success but it could also be failure. The way I think it would be a failure is that he lost a lot of his money and couldn’t afford some necessities. Hornblower also won a considerable amount of money and his playing Whist with Parry led to the confirming of his command of the Retribution.
I feel these examples show both the success and failure of Lieutenant Hornblower throughout the novel. His success lead him to commander of Retribution and his failures were small and didn’t have great effect on his outcome.
