| Charlotte went into a room to get a needle for a man, and found a pistol in his chest, and remembered that the captain had said (very proudly) that he kept all of the guns in a safe that were on the ship, and when she was going out with the needle she saw a round robin, which is a sign that the crew is forming a rebellion, and she realized that they wanted to kill the captain. She tells the captain and he comes out and kills a stowaway named Mr. Cranick with a gun and then orders someone to throw him overboard. After that he whips Zachariah so hard he passes out and the crew gives him a blessing and throws him into the sea. She now doesn't like the captain so she wears a mans clothing and is told that to become a member of the crew she has to climb to the highest mast and come down.
In these chapters Charlotte becomes a member of the crew by climbing to the tallest mast and back. After being a member of the crew for a while they came to the largest storm ever, a hurricane, during the hurricane a man named Mr. Hollybrass was murdered by someone that used Charlotte's knife! She had a trial to see if she had done it, and she was found guilty. She is going to be killed but she finds out that the captain did it, because the two had a fight during the storm and he got mad and said “Die scum!” and killed him. When Charlotte was going to be hung the captain fell off the dock and died and then she was captain. And then she went home. So when she got home, she had to do girl stuff and she didn't like it. Then she gave her diary to her parents and her dad said, “Rubbish! What have those sailor people gotten into your mind?” So then her father burned the diary and then she secretly wrote the diary all over again. | ||
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Plot & Themes Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear) Time/era of story: Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Water adventure Yes Water: - on the ocean surface descript. of violence and chases - 30 % Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10 % Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30 % How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30 % Main Character Gender - Female Profession/status: Age: - a teen Ethnicity/Race Main Adversary Identity: - Male Age: - 40's-50's Profession/status: Motive of antagonist - revenge How sensitive is this character? Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters Setting United States Yes Water? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment Amount of dialog - significantly more dialog than descript |
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