Charlotte Conway's Narrative Essay

At first, Charlotte thought the Captain was pretty nice, considering he was the only put together person on the ship. The they got into an argument, and Captain Jaggery almost did not allow he to be apart of the crew. He also accused Charlotte of a murder she did not take part in. Mr.Hollybrass was the person who was murdered. Captain Jaggery blamed Charlotte even though he murdered the second mate himself. He also threw Charlotte in jail for a murder she did not do. She was accused of the murder so she was the thrown in jail and she was to be hung to death. In chapter 18 Captain Jaggery states “Within 24 hours you shall be hung until you are dead.” Although this was the biggest conflict there was yet another conflict and it was between Charlotte and the

In the story, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Charlotte walks down to top steerage, where her luggage is, to get a couple of her belongings. When she’s down there, she sees a mysterious face staring at her. She doesn’t know who it is. It’s neither Captain Jaggery or the crew. She walks up to it slowly and finds out it’s not alive, it’s a fake face. She starts up the ladder but realizes she forgot her clothes. When she climbs back down to get her clothes, she sees another face, she realizes this face it alive. She had no idea who the face was. (Chapter 6 & 7, Pgs 70-71) This relates to the theme because here Charlotte had to be very brave to go up to the face, go back down to get her things, and having to go down there when she needed something from her luggage. She won’t know if the face will hurt her when she’s down there and she won’t know if the face is still down there.

The narrative written by Judith Ortiz Cofer discusses some of the many experiences she has encountered throughout her life dealing with stereotypes and common misconceptions of Latin American women. To further engage her audience in the story, she provides detailed past experiences that have stood out to her the most. In order for the readers to fully understand those past encounters, some of which are cultural and common among Latinos, Cofer explains them in careful detail. For example, Cofer explains the concept of piropos which are poems composed on the spot by men to women as a form of admiration. This helps her introduce the audience to her own experiences with piropos and how she has dealt with them throughout her life. One of the

She climbs the masts and learns to use her knife just like the rest of the sailors. Meanwhile, Captain Jaggery harasses her to no end. He also begins to steer the ship toward a hurricane so that the ship can take advantage of the strong winds and make better time. Eventually the hurricane strikes the ship head on. During the storm, Charlotte loses her balance in the rigging. As she is about to fall, she gets saved by someone who looks just like Zachariah she thinks is a ghost. After the storm Mr. Hollybrass is discovered face down on the deck with a knife in his back. No one knows who killed the first mate, but Captain Jaggery accuses Charlotte of the murder and sends her to the brig. As Charlotte awaits trial, Zachariah visits her in her cell. He's not dead after all, but has been hiding down in the hold.Charlotte is happy to see Zachariah alive! Charlotte is taken from her cell, tried, and found guilty by the captain and a jury made up of the crew. Jaggery calls her an unnatural girl and uses a chain of faulty logic to convict her. The men on the jury don't speak up because they're protecting Zachariah, who they assume is the one who killed Mr. Hollybrass. The captain sentences Charlotte to death by hanging. After the trial, Charlotte awaits her execution. She and Zachariah think and realize that it must have been Jaggery who murdered Mr. Hollybrass. They

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One of the first signs of this is when she tries on the sailors Garb that Zackariah had given her, mainly out of curiosity (71). However just before this she said “ I took this as a warning that i had been forgetting my station” (71). Which would mean that she still knew that is was her proper place as a young lady, to wear skirts and dresses, as well as act like a woman of the time, but she did not. Some of these are when Charlotte climbed into the rigging for the first time (70), and when she started to listen to their yarns and language which she soon started to use when talking to the men (69). These examples are all proof that charlotte is starting to differ from the beliefs that she has been taught all of her

Freshman Ella. It’s a scary thought, but for this story we have to go back to March of my freshman year at an event called Chamber Festival, which is basically when you play in small groups instead of large orchestras. In our school orchestra I was second chair viola which, me only being a freshman, was a very big deal. At least it was for me. Many of my other friends in orchestra already had their own instruments, and I felt like it was time to get one of my own. So for months I begged my parents. I insisted that I wouldn’t give up playing in a year or two, that I really would stick with it long enough for the investment to make sense. Finally, in the beginning of 2015, they agreed to get me a viola. Now was the hard part, agreeing

Charlotte finds herself at the end of a prison term for committing a felony against a man who deserved it. Upon her release, she finds that he is coming after her. Not for revenge but because he believes she has something of his, something that could put him away for life and topple a criminal enterprise.

Chapter 19: Charlotte is led back to the brig. Zachariah visits Charlotte again. Charlotte tells Zachariah that there are only twenty-four hours till she is hung to death. Charlotte admits to Zachariah that she thinks Zachariah killed Hollybrass. Zachariah tells her that Captain Jaggery saw him on the deck during the storm. Zachariah and Charlotte come to an understanding that Captain Jaggery killed Hollybrass. Zachariah and Charlotte have a plan to stop Captain Jaggery.

During the first part of the book Charlotte tends to be uncomfortable around Zachariah because of his appearance. He seems like a criminal because he is old and wears rags. Zachariah is old with a white beard, he is missing teeth, and he is African. He is caring and very nice with Charlotte. Zachariah’s main action was taking the sacrifice of getting wiped and dying for the crew. Charlotte learned that although Zachariah seemed like a criminal he was the only one to be trusted. Charlotte changes because now she understands why Zachariah was trying to protect her and how his appearance did not matter. She learned that although he seemed like a criminal, he was the wisest and the most caring on the

We also learned that she is even locked upstairs by a gate at the top of the stairs while her husband leaves to go to work for hours, so Charlotte must simply sit and look out of her window, slowly driving herself insane. Just like any average person would behave while in her position, she starts to exhibit actions and behaviors of a mentally insane person. Charlotte’s actions only become more strange the longer she is isolated and even when her sister-in-law, Jennie, moves into the house with her it does not help her condition. Jennie is only trying to help; however, in her state Charlotte does not know this and suspects that Jennie is plotting to send her away and starts spying on Jennie from the corners of rooms and such. Her husband forthright threatens to send Charlotte to the very same doctor, of whom she has heard countless horror stories about, she believes Jennie does; in turn, Charlotte attempts to act normally out of fear of her own

Secondly, when Captain Jaggery was going to hurt Zachariah Charlotte stepped in. Charlotte pleaded with Captain Jaggery not to hurt Zachariah and he didn’t listen. Charlotte tried

As the book goes on Charlotte gets caught in a mishap with the crew and Captain Jaggery. The problem was that the crew was going to try and commit mutiny against the Captain. The leader of this mutiny was a crew member named Cranick

At the beginning of the novel, Charlotte feels that she belongs with her family, and is meant to stay there. But she soon finds out that “You aren't born with your family, you

Going to bed that night with the relief that once they go away together she will have him all to herself and release him from the other mistress she claims he had she felt as if she had won. The next morning she receives the news left by her husband that they were leaving to sail the next day. As the day passed, she did not hear any news from her husband nor had he answered any of her calls. As it got dark ,she started to worry and her feeling of hope she had the night before started to slowly slip away. In the story one of the main themes is miscommunication but it isn’t direct since we see Charlotte and Kenneth interact with each other but in this part of the story we see a real communication problem since she isn’t able to reach him.