Personal response:
Truthfully, Charlottes actions in chapters 9-15 are very independent. Throughout the story, she is very immature but like a seed growing into a tree, she matures into a very mature adult.
In chapter 9, Charlotte is still very much immature in her own beliefs and has to rely on Captain Jaggery. While getting a needle for Mr Ewing, (79) she discovers a variety of weapons including a pistol. She also finds a pistol in Ewing's chest and a round robin. Being the tattle tale that she is, she immediately requests a private talk with Captain Jaggery, (84) being very foolish as she still trusts Jaggery as a honest man, like a fatherly figure, despite the horror stories the crew has told her about killing people heartfully and mercilessly. After their talk Jaggery calls all hands on board and immediately kills Cranick with a loaded musket(91), and whips Zachariah to "death." After this incident she realizes that she is very foolish, and she decides to join the crew.
When she joins the crew(112) she makes a choice that will change her life forever and shows many acts of perseverance and bravery, and also wisdom. To join the crew, she must climb up the royal yard which is 130 feet up in the air. This is considered one of the most troublesome and challenging tasks to do on board, as it must be climbed in 2 minutes, but for Charlotte she is given as exception and has as much time as needed. When she is successful in doing so, they are loud eruptions of cheer and applause and she is sworn into the crew. Captain Jaggery realizes that Charlotte has switched from the side of sophistication of a gentlewoman to the rough and scarring life of a sailor. Her skin turn pink from the cream color, then into red, and the brown leather hide of a sailor. It bursts into red,oozing, running sores, then hardens(129).
When Jaggery asks Charlotte to cut a sail away(140) during the hurricane he is trying to test what she has learned, but ultimately also trying to save the boat yet kill her. When she is successful, Jaggery has used this time to kill Hollybrass and fake it as Charlotte's doing. His cowardly actions make Charlotte erupt in anger and spit on his boots. This action is very foolish, as she has disrespected the captain and he will do as much as he can to kill her, although it is a representation of her anger.
Evaluate and Connect:
Before she joins the crew she tries to get along with Jaggery as much as possible, and after she whips him in the face resulting in a long gashing scar(104) she remembers her gentlewoman ways and tries to muster up courage to say sorry to Jaggery. "Beyond all else I had been educated to the belief when I was wrong--it was my responsibility --mine alone --to admit my fault and make my amends." (103) She has already be thinking if Jaggery might forgive her, as she was expecting from his gentlemanly ways (103). She tries to get along with the captain because he is like her father on this ship, and she must never disobey the man of authority, as she has been taught all her life, and she wants to "find some way to appease a way to gain his forgiveness, no matter what it took..." (105).
When Charlotte joins the crew it is a very wise decision made for her. She is a meek, weak, sophisticated gentlewoman that is not at all suited for the journey of this trip. Her ways make her stand out, and she can never stand with Jaggery again. She also doesn't want to be alone, thus making herself join the crew, coming prepared in the clothes Zachariah made her, him being almost like prophet in the Bible, knowing this day would come. She experiences life as she has never before, and learns that living is not all about drinking high tea and wearing gloves and delicately eating small wafers of bread and never having fun. Although the sailor life is hardy, she quickly adapts to it, although her hair gets tangled, her gloves are thrown away, and her skin rough as leather.
Art and Music Connection
I chose this picture to represent the storm scene because in this photo, there is a moon, a worldwide symbol of peace and hope. This is very much like Charlotte. But around the moon are dark swirling clouds, representing the tension and anger aboard ship, and the ship being at sea in a horrendous hurricane.
When Jaggery asks Charlotte to cut a sail away(140) during the hurricane he is trying to test what she has learned, but ultimately also trying to save the boat yet kill her. When she is successful, Jaggery has used this time to kill Hollybrass and fake it as Charlotte's doing. His cowardly actions make Charlotte erupt in anger and spit on his boots. This action is very foolish, as she has disrespected the captain and he will do as much as he can to kill her, although it is a representation of her anger.
Evaluate and Connect:
Before she joins the crew she tries to get along with Jaggery as much as possible, and after she whips him in the face resulting in a long gashing scar(104) she remembers her gentlewoman ways and tries to muster up courage to say sorry to Jaggery. "Beyond all else I had been educated to the belief when I was wrong--it was my responsibility --mine alone --to admit my fault and make my amends." (103) She has already be thinking if Jaggery might forgive her, as she was expecting from his gentlemanly ways (103). She tries to get along with the captain because he is like her father on this ship, and she must never disobey the man of authority, as she has been taught all her life, and she wants to "find some way to appease a way to gain his forgiveness, no matter what it took..." (105).
When Charlotte joins the crew it is a very wise decision made for her. She is a meek, weak, sophisticated gentlewoman that is not at all suited for the journey of this trip. Her ways make her stand out, and she can never stand with Jaggery again. She also doesn't want to be alone, thus making herself join the crew, coming prepared in the clothes Zachariah made her, him being almost like prophet in the Bible, knowing this day would come. She experiences life as she has never before, and learns that living is not all about drinking high tea and wearing gloves and delicately eating small wafers of bread and never having fun. Although the sailor life is hardy, she quickly adapts to it, although her hair gets tangled, her gloves are thrown away, and her skin rough as leather.
Art and Music Connection
I chose this picture to represent the storm scene because in this photo, there is a moon, a worldwide symbol of peace and hope. This is very much like Charlotte. But around the moon are dark swirling clouds, representing the tension and anger aboard ship, and the ship being at sea in a horrendous hurricane.
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