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Captain Jaggery In Charlotte Brave

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“Not every 13 year old girl is accused of murder, brought to trial, and found guilty.” But for Charlotte Doyle it was a different story. In this thrilling novel Charlotte is a 13 year old girl that abords a ship called the Seahawk as her father had planned for her voyage from Liverpool, England to the United States, after he and his wife had left her to finish school. She had planned to ride with two other families but as they could not make it, she was forced to ride the ship on a two month voyage with all men. On this miserable journey Charlotte ends up having to become something she would have never imagined so would become. In this book Charlotte Doyle shows that she is brave, determined and unusual. Charlotte shows that she is nothing …show more content…

In the start of the book after she met Captain Jaggery and he had asked her to tell him if the crew was betraying him or planing something she showed her loyalness in many ways. For instance when she went to the forecast to get a needle for Ewing and she had to go into his truck, she saw a pistol and when she left she bumped into the table they were using and saw a red robin. As soon as Charlotte had seen what had been in the forecast she went right up and told Jaggery. She also showed loyalty when she decided to join the crew and stuck up to Jaggery and called him a coward. This proves that she is loyal because she is sticking up for herself and the crew, she is telling him that she will not stand by him while he works that crew to death, she is showing him that she is now loyal to the crew and that makes Jaggery furious. My finnal piece of evidence is when Charlotte thinks that Zacharia killed Hollybrass, instead of telling Jaggery or asking Zacharia if he did it she took the blame because she didn't want him to get killed. There is no denial that this shows she wasn't loyal. She was giving up her life even though she didn't do it because she didn't want Zacharia to get

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