MR. DOYLE

PERSONAL RESPONCE:








My reaction towards Charlotte's behavior supports the way shes acting becuase she is tranforming intoi a new person. She takes risks and joins the crew to prove to Captain Jaggery that she can withstand anything he throws at her. Thats one of her wise actions or desictions, another is when she cut her hair. Cutting her air let the crew know that she will do anything to get her job done and that she won't let them down over a girls most valuanle posetion. Her not so smart action was when she disides to rage at the captain. That shows that he can manipulate her and get the best of her when she is trying to prove herself as a crew member.





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Charlotte tires to get along with Jaggery becuase she has heard bad things about him and since she is the only lady on board she doesnt want to be on his bad side becuase he's the only one she can speak to since the others she looks down on. Also becuase she thinks so higly of him and in a society wise prospective that she feels the need to have to be able to rely on him or go to him whenever she is in eed of something or simply just to have tea. It states on page 52 "Captain Jaggery was a brilliant sun andI, a Junomoon, basked in reflected glory." This shows that she knows he is higher than her in society and that's a reason she feels to be on the Captains good side.


I think that her dsition to join the crew was wise becuase now the she didnt have the captain at her side she couldn't really rely on anyone else. So she joined te crew to feel like she's still a part of the ship and also to show Jagery that she can live on the ship without him. On page 136 Mr. Doyle says " You'llbe seen by everyoneas the cruel despot you are!" Showing that she has no fear of standing up to him and letting him know a pice of her mind. Also she stays with the crew becuase she thinks of them as family and she feels she belongs on the ship so she decides to be apart of the SeaHawk once again (pg. 221).

Charlotte Changes

Personal response:

I was kind of amazed that Charlotte Doyle would want to become part of the crew. After all those years of studying in school on how to be a gentlewomen she wants to join them. I don't think that Charlotte's father would really want to do it. Her wise actions were when she told Captain Jaggery that he would be seen by what he really was in Providence, Rhode Island right after he slapped her. Also it was wise for her to spit on his shoes. The foolish items that she did was that she would want to be part of the crew. That what started all the other foolishness. It was also foolish for her to tel on Zachariah after he believed in her.

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Charlotte wants to get along with Captain Jaggery because she wants to be safe and during that time period in which a man takes care of a lady, Captain Jaggery was the only gentleman to do so. The captain is basically like a father to Charlotte Doyle on the ship. In the book on page 103 "Beyond all else I had been educated to the belief that when I was wrong - and how often had my passion father found me at fault - it was my responsibility - mine alone - to admit my fault and make amends. She realizes that it was all her fault and that she must fix it before anything else bad happens to her.

When Charlotte wants to be part of the crew that was wise of her because that is how she will kin with the crew and everybody else. On page 132 she proudly stated,"I don't intend to make a mistake...stated proudly." She thinks that at least this is the first step in getting closer to the crew as much as possible for her. In this part of the book she also learns to turn down and not trust the captain anymore.

Imagery

I chose this picture this shows what it would have been like during a hurricane.

Chapter 9-15 Reaction and Artistic Interpretations [:

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.

Personal Response:
My response to Charlotte's actions surprised me a bit. When she cut off her hair, it shows that she really cares about the ship and the crew members. A girl's hair is like her prize possession, so when she cuts it, it shows that she has grown stronger and has changed. When Charlotte was still in her lady-like form, she would have never thought of cutting her hair short. She would have never thought of climbing the royal garden or even cut the strings off from the mast. All her doings during chapter 9 thru 15 was very interesting for me. For instance, when she called Captain Jaggery a "coward and fraud," this shows her growing courage for standing up to Jaggery and saying what she believes. What she did was very wise because she knew nobody else in the crew would ever have the courage to stand up to Jaggery. Another thing is when Charlotte spits at Captain Jaggery's shoes, this shows that she is serious with joining the crew and being a gentlewoman. Doing all those actions show that she is serious about changing and being a letting her gentlewoman side of her show. What she did was foolish was when Charlotte tattled to Captain Jaggery about the pistol and the round robin in Mister Ewing’s trunk. Doing this shows her naïve side of Charlotte. This also shows that she doesn’t really respect the crew’s doings.

Evaluate and Connect
Charlotte tries to get friendly with the captain because the captain offered his protection from the crew. Also, she tries to get along with the captain because she knew the death of 2 people was caused by her. If she would have stopped the urge to open her mouth and tattle, the killing of Zachariah and Cranick would have never happened. On pg. 105 "..even at that moment all my thoughts were of finding some way to appease the captain and regain his favor," the quote means that she wants to have the "gentleman" protection of Jaggery. Also, when Jaggery says,"Let them take care of you...in anyway they want. I want to withdraw my protection...I want nothing to do with you. Nothing!" this shows that Charlotte is very judgmental of the crew and just wants the protection of Jaggery, a gentleman.
My opinion of Charlotte joining the crew, who now despise her, is that it is a very good thing that happened. Charlotte needs to learn a way to grow stronger both physically and emotionally. Before, Charlotte was very ladylike and very weak, she always wore her gloves to protect her hands. On pg. 116-117, her hands were like "bloody creamy," while Foley's hands were as "tough as leather." I also think that Charlotte joining the crew is a good thing because Charlotte was too ladylike before and she was too judgmental. Joining the crew will help Charlotte experience a new view of life.

True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle- Chapters 9-15

Personal Response

In these chapters, Charlotte surprised me in soooo many ways. In the beginning, she acted really foolishly and told Captain Jaggery about the round robin, without thinking about the real consequences. In this way, she was very selfish because it seemed like she was only thinking about what would happen to HER if she didn't tell Captain Jaggery about the round robin, but she wasn't thinking about what it would cost the crew members if she sold them out to their worst enemy. All her life, Charlotte was grown to the fact that she should be loyal to the people of higher society, or gentlemen, and that choice of becoming Captain Jaggery's "eyes and ears" resulted in the death of Cranick, and the horrifying whipping of Zachariah.

But Charlotte does change, not just a little, but a LOT. Once she recognizes the true evilness if Captain Jaggery, it leads her to figure out that maybe she should make her decisions on her own, and not based on what she was taught to do. She left everything her mom, dad, and sorority teachers had taught her behind and went out of the way to help the crew and become part of their family. Charlotte became a more manlike figure, but she still kept some her qualities, such as her stubbornness and childishness. Even though it might seem that she became smarter after showing how much she wanted to prove herself to the crew, she still does some things that weren't so smart, such as yelling at Captain Jaggery and calling him a coward and fraud. By standing up to him, she was challenging his authority, much like she did when she whipped the Captain across the face to stop them from punishing Zachariah. But the difference between that and this were that she accidentally whipped Jaggery, while on deck, she purposefully called him names.

Charlotte might have been a very lady-like 13 year old girl in the beginning of Chapter 9, but as Chapter 15 comes to end, she proves everyone (the crew members, Captain Jaggery, and her dad) wrong by showing them that she is capable of much more than just curtsying and being led by someone her whole life.

Evaluate and Connect

Charlotte tries to become close to Captain Jaggery because since she was a little girl, she was always dependent on someone else and she felt that on the ship, Captain Jaggery was the only one who was close enough to being a gentleman to give her guidance. But, after she unintentionally whipped him, Charlotte believed that "no matter how distasteful, [she] must beg the captain's forgiveness"(pg 103) She was hoping that Captain Jaggery would forgive her and was trying to apologize by "being as ready as [she] could ever hope to be"(pg 103) and "to admit her fault and make amends"(pg 103).

Charlotte's decision to join the crew was a good one because the only way to gain the favor of the crew was by proving how sorry she was and that she wasn't just the pretty little lady who was dependent on someone else. When she climbs the royal yard and shows that she is stronger than she looks, she is greeted by a loud eruption of cheers from the sailors, but an angry Captain Jaggery. The crew accepts her happily because they saw her "desire to become a crew member not only as atonement, but also as a stinging rebuff to Captain Jaggery"(pg 128). After becoming a sailor, Charlotte notices that her once smooth hands had become rough like leather and her attire had changed from a pretty dress to sailor's clothing, trousers and a shirt.



This picture symbolizes the danger of the storm. Just like the monster can destroy/eat anything that comes in its way, a storm can also terrorize its victims by scaring them by the thought of drowning.

True Confession of Charlotte Doyle: Chapters 9-15 Reaction and Artistic Interpretations

Personal Response:

In chapter 9, Charlotte is foolish when she tells Captain Jaggery what she had found in Ewing's trunk. On pg, 85 it quotes"...when my much-loved brother broke a rare vase, and I, out of a high sense of duty told on him." Also, it quotes when she tells Captain Jaggery,"I saw... saw a pistol ... and i saw a... a round robin," shows that she was foolish enough to tell him and start a rebellion in a pityful way. Even though she acted foolish, she did have a wise mind after what she dealed with during the rebellion. On pg. 112, it quotes "With fumbling, nervous hands I put on the seaman's clothing," shows that she is really committing to be a member of the crew. Also, she goes up to Mr. Fisk and managed to say," I've come to be one of the crew."

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In the beginning of Chapter 12, she wants to get along with the captain because she knows that it was her fault that she interfered with the rebellion and whipped the captain's face. She quotes on page 103,"Beyond all esle i had been educated to the belief that when i was wrong - and how often had my pation father found me at fault - it was my responsibility - mine alone - to admit my fault and make amends." This shows that she was guilty of what she had done to Captain Jaggery and the crew during the rebellion. She realizes that she had lost control of herself and had to fix her problem. That is why she goes to Captain Jaggery and asks for forgiveness and didn't want to hold a hard burden over her heart.

When Charlotte chooses to become one of the crew when the members dislike her, it is actually wise for her to make that decision because of how she wants to take responsibility of what happened during the rebellion. She becomes more determined and learns much more facts when she is in the crew. Also, it builds relationship between them. At first, she is just a gentlewoman, but later on begins to grow and redeem herself. She becomes more self esteem about herself and isn't timid as much. On pg. 132, she states,"I don't intend to make a mistake...stated proudly." This shows that how certain she is about herself and that she isn't afraid as much anymore. Also, she learns how to turn down the captain when she should instead of acting like a princess to him. Therefore, becoming a member of the crew was one of the best decisions she has made because of how she learns about so much more and ,unlike following Captain Jaggery like a desperate person, but follows her own heart and conscience.

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