The Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle

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CORE QUESTION: Charlotte comes to a painful realization in this chapter. What factors converged (came together) to create this realization? What does Charlotte decide to do as a result? In chapter twelve of the novel The Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi, the protagonist, Charlotte comes to the painful realization that “all the horror [she]’d witnessed had been brought about by” her, herself (pg. 102). The combination of factors that converged to create the realization that the captain was cruel and that she had been wrong to take his side include: 1) witnessing the captains cruelty first hand, 2) the death of Mr. Cranick (pg. 89) and beating Mr. Zechariah to death (pg. 101), and 3) the captain’s rejection of Charlotte as a “sniffling,