Theme Of The True Confession Of Charlotte Doyle

Trust is one of many components of life and it is shown through our actions and how we carry ourselves. We as human beings learn to trust each other by the words we say to one another and the actions we show to others. There are many lessons we can learn through the short but powerful story by Langston Hughes “Thank You. Ma’am”. Throughout the story there are several lessons and traits that the reader can interpret such as thinking twice before you execute the plan that you had in mind, sympathy, charisma, and even giving second chances. But more importantly, there is one lesson that specifically plays a huge role in the story itself and in American culture today, and that is trust others. There are several ways these lessons and interpretations can be put into real life situations and how they can affect us today in real time.

Hollybrass. Zachariah and Charlotte has a plan to get the muskets from the safe of his cabin. Mr. Doyle(shipmate name) sneaks from the birg to Captain Jaggery's cabin, only to see Jaggery waiting for Mr. Doyle. Since the captain figured out all of her plans from Keetch, he was fully prepared. Jaggery knew that Zachariah is hiding in the prison cell. Charlotte enters, knowing already that Jaggery staged the attack on Mr. Hollybrass to make Mr. Doyle guilty, and Jaggery gives a speech to her about how order was disrupted. Jaggery admits that he killed Mr. Hollybrass, since Samuel was threatening Jaggery. The captain gives her three options. The first option is that he will give Mr. Doyle the keys to the safe to get the muskets and kill Captain Jaggery. This will make her family shamed and reputation The second option is to put her old clothes on, ask for forgiveness, and everything will be in proper order. The third option is that she can be hanged. Charlotte rejects all the ideas and runs to the deck where the conspiracy had turned against them. The captain comes outside and shoots, only to miss because the ship plunges. Mr. Doyle retreats to the bowsprit, and soon Jaggery follows. Then, the ship plunges and Jaggery is thrown overboard. Zachariah says that since Charlotte saved their lives, she should become captain. She became captain and was

Charlotte realized that there was nobody on her side after the incident when Charlotte told the captain about the mutiny and then accidentally whipped the captain’s face, so she decided to take charge without the help of someone else. Charlotte decided to take charge and join the crew, “‘I’ve come,’ I managed to say, ‘to be one of the crew.’” (pg. 106). Charlotte decided to take charge of her own life like a true sailor by choosing her own wind. Even though Charlotte had chosen the best “wind” and done the right thing, the wind she chose wasn’t an easy one; she still had sort of a hard time with the captain and she even ended up being charged of murder. Charlotte decided to choose her own wind to sail her ship, or make her own choice when she realized that she was all alone with nobody on her side.

You shouldn’t trust everyone. This is shown in “Young Goodman Brown” by Washington Irving, and “ The Devil and Tom Walker”by Nathaniel Hawthorne. This idea is developed through the characterization, plot and setting. People should not always trust everyone they are around because they sometimes cannot be trustworthy.

Charlotte Doyle is a 13 year old girl that is afraid to go to America alone. When she got on the ship people told her this is not the ship you want to be on. Charlotte got sick so she stayed in her cabin with roaches. Zachariah was giving her tea when she was sick. Charlotte Doyle went to Zachariah and that’s when Zechariah gave Charlotte the dirk. Charlotte went to Captain Jaggery and told him that she didn’t want it. Captain Jaggery said you should keep it because of the crew. Ewing asked Charlotte to go get something for him and that’s when Charlotte Doyle found the round robin and the stowaway. Captain Jaggery got the crew to the deck and shot cranick and hung Zachariah. Charlotte doyle whipped captain Jaggery’s face. Charlotte Doyle

In the story Charlotte Doyle, by Avi, the main character Charlotte Doyle has one big conflict that is about her voyage to America. That is because Charlotte Doyle gets put on a ship that takes her on an expedition back to America, but--she is the only female onboard… Now a theme that I would have to choose thus far into the novel would have to be “Don’t judge a book by its cover”, this works figuratively and literally because the literal would come from the actual cover, you’d think that she would be conflicted on her voyage by weather, because of the waves crashing hard against the seahawk and figuratively because of the actual book. I mean she is on this voyage and she’s the only female aboard the ship, and it’s very rough because she is

Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia follows the story of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes on his adventures to retrieve a disgraceful photograph of Irene Adler and the King of Bohemia. The king, now engaged to a different woman, is fearful that Adler may use the photo as blackmail. In A Scandal in Bohemia, the apparent role of women is minuscule. The only female emphasis is on one woman, who is the object of Holmes' detective inquiries. In A Scandal in Bohemia, society places women at a subordinate level, pushing them to the background and therefore never allowing the reader to fully understand their character.

The confessions of Ward and Fontenot to raping and murdering Denice Haraway are the most incriminating evidence against the pair. However, these are false confessions and do not prove anything, but would in fact prove that the pair know nothing about what happened to Denice. The events leading up to the confessions are the first indication that the confessions are false, and at the very least tainted. As previously stated, The OSBI administered a polygraph test to Ward to determine his involvement with Denice Haraway 's disappearance. The agent who administered the test, Rusty Featherstone, told Ward that he had failed the test Mayer, 1987, p. 54). This may have been true, and even if it was, it means nothing. If it was not true, then the police had made a false evidence ploy. That is when the police say they have evidence against a suspect in an attempt to get the suspect to confess. If a person has truly committed the crime, they are likely to confess, but if the suspect is innocent, he would just become confused as to how the police have evidence for a crime he did not commit. To elicit a confession, police would continue to insist that they have evidence, until the suspect begins to doubt himself, and perhaps eventually confess. The persistence of the police, in conjunction with a lengthy interrogation would wear down the suspect. Ward 's interrogation went on for five hours before he was ready to confess Mayer, 1987, p. 56).

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.

Another large part of Melinda’s life is her journey on learning how to trust, and being able to know who is trustworthy. Some of the people that need your trust the most are the people you are around the most like your teachers, parents, family, and friends. A large part of trust

5. Sometimes you cannot believe what you see, you have to believe what you feel. And if you are ever going to have other people trust you, you must feel that you can trust them too-even when you are in the dark. Even when you 're falling.

should never trust anyone, not even your own shadow. You never know what life has

"The happiness of the wicked passes away like a torrent!" This quote from Jean Baptiste Racin summarizes The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne in one sentence. The novel's main focus is on three main characters and how the sins they commit affect their lives in the strict Puritan town of Boston around the year 1642. Hawthorne was very knowledgeable of his Puritan ancestry and shows it by incorporating some important thoughts and traditions into this story about sin and confession. Throughout the novel, the physical, social, mental and emotional changes that result from sin in the lives of the characters are never positive and the outcome of their spiritual