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Courage In Charles Doyle's The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle

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“Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.” - Mary Tyler Moore. This quote means that if you take chances you will make mistakes, making mistakes is a part of your life, pain strengthens you, and failing makes you braver. In the story, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, the readers learn from Charlotte's adventures that there is many times to be brave, which is part of the theme, being brave is sometimes the only choice.

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.

Later in the story, Charlotte goes to find a needle for Mr. Ewing. When she was

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