The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle By Avi

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Charlotte Doyle Pushing Through In the novel, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, Charlotte Doyle, the main character, is a thirteen year old girl who lived with a rich family. She goes on a ship in 1832 from LiverPool, England to Providence, Rhode Island and thinks nothing of the crew because she is higher class than them. Charlotte Doyle demonstrates persevering when she climbed up the sail to royal yard, and when she knew she had 24 hours left to live. When Charlotte was on the ship she was begging to the crew to join but she had to do one thing which was climbed to top mast which was the tallest sail on the ship. When she was halfway up the sail she said “I understand that they would take the smallest movement down as a retreat.