text: First, his point of view was to persuade and convince people to join the Seagoing Cowboys program because he went and he had fun and now he's trying to get people to join is because it is an opportunity of a lifetime. In the story it says,"He was working part-times jobs in a grocery store and a bank when his freind Don Reist invited him to go to Europe on a cattle boat, Luke couldn't say no because he knew that it was an expeirience of a lifetime." He really wants to persuade people to join but not every body wants to join.