I believe that the character Captain Jaggery is a villain. I think that a villain is something’s or someone’s actions that impact the plot. This means that their actions, decisions, impact the protagonist’s actions, thoughts, or feelings. Some character traits of a villain would be evil, cruel, rude, and cunning. These seem to be recurring traits of villains outside of the book. Captain Jaggery is pretty evil. Evil is kind of a broad term for a villian but I think it works for Captain Jaggery’s actions. Evil describes all of his wrong doings such as beating cranick, and Zachariah. Evil also applies when he decides to frame Charlotte for Mr HollyBrass’s death. He does things that are considered immoral and wicked, the two main principles of …show more content…
In the book we hear about how he mercilessly beat Mr Cranick. This is of course, unspeakably cruel considering he lost his arm after the beating. Later he beats Zachariah after Charlotte doesn’t choose someone to be punished. He nearly kills him with how cruelly he deals the punishment. This is one of the ways that Captain Jaggery demonstrates the character traits of a villain Another trait of Captain Jaggery is being rude. It could also be described as bossy. He is a no tolerance Captain who will yell at you for a little mistake. In my personal opinion that is extremely rude. He doesn’t treat the crew very well. We know that because his own crew wants him dead! So that's another reason why he’s a villain. My last trait for Captain Jaggery is that he does things that are cunning. One example of this is when he kills Mr HollyBrass and strategically makes it look like it was Charlotte who killed Mr HollyBrass. Another example is at the beginning of the book when He appears so kind, so noble, but in all reality he is a horrible person. That deception is a part of being cunning. Up until Charlotte's voyage he seemed to always avoid being brought to justice. This is yet another reason that Captain Jaggery is a