Personal Response:
I think that Charlotte Doyle is very, very foolish. She never thinks before she does anything like when she tells Captain Jaggery about the round robin and the pistol. The thing that is going though my mind at that moment is "What are all the pistols and weapons stored in his room for then?!? Display??"
She also ignores all the evidence that he's bad. One thing he does is overworking the crew and making them do more than necessary. His face also "suddenly flushes with excitement" ( pg.85) at the mention of the pistol among the crew. He is excited at the very thought of violence. Next, his face sometimes flashes with anger or he snaps at the crew for doing the tiniest thing wrong. Even when the captian kills Cranick, and almost whips Zachariah to death, She still comes skipping back to him as though he had done nothing wrong. SHE asks for forgiveness from HIM. She wants to be friends with a murderer.
Evaluate and Connect:
Charlotte tries to get along with the captain because she was raised that way. She had said "beyond all else, i had been educated to believe taht when i was wrong it was my responsibility-mine alone- to admit my fault and make amends." (pg.103) He was a "gentleman, the kind of man i was used to. A man to be trusted. In short, a man whom i could talk and upon whom i could rely." (pg.29) She was also lonely because the crew was mad at her for betraying them by telling the captain about the pistol and the round robin. She had had always relied on the captain for support and thats who she thought she could still rely on.
I think that Charlotte's decision to joing the crew was very brave and mature of her. She had finally made a decision by herself even if it was because the captain had rejected her. But then she had said "my heart beating painfully as if i were in some danger...Yet i told myself i must accept my responsibility" (pg.111) SHe had finally grown out of her coccoon and spread her wings. She had grown up at the point. She had stuck to her decision even when she had to climg the royal yard, the highest mast on the ship, even though she knew that if she fell, she would die within impact. She had made up her mind and never gave up, even when she wanted to badly.
Art/Music Connection:
The picture is calm but rough at the same time. The waves are still somewhat rough showing the hints of a hurricane but calm at the same time. Its rough showing everything that happenned on the voyage and all the hard tasks that she had to overtake. The black is contrasting very greatly to the white in the sky showing what the innocent person she once was and the different person that she now is. She had changed from all the experiences and sights that she had seen along the journey. THe old her is long gone, like the little ship in the background. The old her is in the back of her mind, like how the ship is fading. wat happenned before was forgotton, replace with the new, and the present.
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