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The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle Summary

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The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is a fantastic novel that is a historic drama. It starts off with a thirteen year-old girl who is going to America. She has lived in England from her sixth through her thirteenth birthday and is now traveling back to her home in Providence, Rhode Island. She is going on a “summer vacation” on a ship called, “The Seahawk”. But her family wasn’t going to travel with her, instead she was going to travel with two other families they knew. Unfortunately, the families did not show up, and neither did ANY of the other passengers! Apparently the crew talked trash about how awful the captain was, which convinced all of the passengers to not travel on the ship! So of course Charlotte kept complaining to her chaperone which …show more content…

Once she finally got onboard the ship “The Seahawk” she met the captain. At first, Charlotte fell in love with his properness and polite attitude. Then she saw the crew, they were rough filthy, and rude. The crew sees the captain as a terrible, cruel, and evil person, whereas Charlotte sees him as a polite man. Later on, one of the nicer crew members gives Charlotte a knife! The crew member said she “nevers knows what can happen on a ship”. Of course she rejects and tries to give it back and even considers throwing it of the ship. Charlotte suffers from seasickness and nightmares preventing her from enjoying her journey. Eventually, she gets over her seasickness and nightmares and becomes friends with the “polite” captain. Later on in the book, the crew still has something for the cruel captain and they made a plan for revenge! The captain, angry when he finds this out, decides to try to rebel against the crew. Soon after, Charlotte is put trial for murder! At the end of the book, Charlotte is a

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Charlotte doyle character analysis Charlotte doyle is a 13 year old girl that went on this ship back to her family. Where was she?? She was at a school for girls. When she got on the ship she did not feel comfortable because she was the only girl on a ship of 11 men. The first day she was on the ship she was very shy and she just stayed in her cabin until the captain called her to his cabin.

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This quote shows her being brave because she just whipped the captain across the face and made him bleed. When Mr. Hollybrass was getting ready to whip Zachariah, Grabbed the whip and stopped Mr. Hollybrass when nobody else did. Charlotte did this on accident because she flicit the whip thought the air when she was pulling the wipe away from the

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Another time, when the trip was just beginning and Charlotte didn't see the captain for who he was, Charlotte told the captain about the crews plan of a mutiny and their round robin. The captain had told her that if she saw a round robin, or anything else that hinted of a rebellion, she was to report it to him right away. Charlotte did as she was told and informed the captain right away. Her loyalty to the captain proved to the captain and the crew that she could be trusted to do as she was told. Later in the book, Charlotte was being tried for the murder of the first mate that she did not do.

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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.

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She works her full hours and helped the ship survive the hurricane. Charlotte Doyle has the skills needed to become part of the crew. Charlotte becomes part of the crew in the novel. She is very brave, which is one of the reasons why she becomes part of the crew. The other men tell her that in order to become one of them, she must climb to the top of the Royal

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She kept telling Jaggery that her father would approve of her. When Charlotte finally reaches Rhode Island, she realizes that her father is not like what she thought. He reacted to her ways the exact way Captain Jaggery did. For example, “Somehow you teachers there filled your mind with the unfortunate capacity to invent the most outlandish, not to say unnatural tales.” This proves that Mr. Doyle doesn’t approve of Charlotte’s behavior.

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Charlotte was well-educated on the teaching of the literature more commonly, on the metaphor, for this reason it stimulated her passion for the love of metaphors. In fact, Charlotte thinks,”that Miss Hancock made the deepest mark upon me,”(Wilson,217), because of how exhilarating her momentum is when she educates her lovely pupils . Without delay, her preceptor made the entire class do an activity on writing a metaphor based on anything, as time passes she calls up Charlotte to decipher her extensive metaphor about her mother. Charlotte states,”My mother is a flawless, modern building, created of glass and the smoothest of pale concrete,”(219) meaning that her mom may seem flawless at first, but when examined more closely she is revealed to be unsympathetic and heartless. In that day, Miss Hancock paused Charlotte at the end of her class, before she proceeds to go home to inform her,’”if you need any help...with any other kind of problem, just let me know,’”(220) shows her sympathetic side of being caring, kind-hearted and compassionate.

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(page 47) Jaggery describes them as men who don't have a belief and are rough. This scares Charlotte and now she definitely doesn’t want to trust the crew. She sees the captain as a friend and the crew as a foe because of how the captain has described them. Captain Jaggery explains to Charlotte that even though he would like to treat them with kindness but, he tells her, “Alas, I would gain no respect.

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The narrator compares herself falling for Charlotte to the popular trope of the man standing below the woman’s window, waiting for her to say yes to him. For this reason, the narrator feels as though she is acting the way a boy does when trying to get a girl because she was playing the role typically assumed by the man. Even as Charlotte’s boyfriend Maurice returns and talks to the narrator about wanting to marry Charlotte, the narrator still calls it a “man-to-man” (274) talk, implying that she is a man even though she’s not. The narrator feels like she is playing the role of a man because in popular media and throughout history, the position of the man was to court the woman. She hadn’t yet realised that though men usually assume that role, women could as

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If I were to describe the life of Charlotte Charke in one word, my word of choice would be “odd.” Her autobiography, A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte Charke, describes in great detail the abundance of situations where Charke acted in ways that greatly varied from the perceived norm, which I believe played a massive role in the formation of her identity. Her personal narrative perfectly depicts how identity is constructed through a combination of factors that were outside of her control, as well as the things she could control within her life, or in other words, the situations were agency was involved, and the ones where it was forbidden. Initially, one of the first situations where we see Charlotte Charke being impacted by something outside of her control is her acceptance by others.

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Throughout the story, the narrator continues to mention this image of him standing “[with] open arms” on a “cobbled street” in “a smoldering city” where he sees himself saving “a bundle of precious things [thrown] from a third-floor European window” that is Charlotte (189). The image of the “smoldering city” suggests an unfolding of some sort of disaster on a grand scale, perhaps a volcanic eruption or a war. The emphasis on the medieval aspects of the city, the “European window” and “cobbled streets” adds a fantastical sense to this image, suggesting that narrator is both exaggerating and romanticizing this relationship. Describing Charlotte as “a bundle of precious things” he happens to save, the narrator implies that he sees Charlotte as something special that only he can save because he is the person in the right place and time with “arms open” – accepting and willing to tolerate her faults. In introspection, the narrator claims that this vision is perhaps the result of having “watched too many films” (189), and suggests that he may have imagined himself of a hero of sorts who can save Charlotte from her eccentricities and anti-social behaviors.

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