Character Analysis

Charlotte Doyle• Wanted to be lady-like

• Bonnet, full skirts, high button shoes, white gloves

• Curious of many things

• Soon turns against Captain Jaggery

• Wants justice

• “ my family dressed me as a young woman, bonnet covering my beautiful hair, full skirts, high but ton shoes, and you may be sure, white gloves. pg 1”

• I did promis,’ whispered and dropped the coin into the man’s upturned palm pg 11

Seahawk• The boat Charlotte Doyle boards to go to

America

• Has bad feeling

• The main mast is broken from the hurricane

• “ the one unique aspect of this ship was a carved figurehead of a pale white seahawk beneath the bow spirit pg 13”

•“the seahawk was what is known as a brig, a two masted ship (with a snow mast behind the main) pg12

Captain Jaggery

•The captain of the crew

•Very punctual

•Has bad reputation

•Acts very courteous to Charlotte, but then is very cruel to the crewmembers

•“You [Capt. Jaggery] remind me of my father.] p 46

Mr. Grummage•Very punctual

•Short temper

•Pompous

•“Mr. Grummage was, like my father, a gentleman.”

•“Mr. Grummage was dressed in a black frock coat with a stove pipe hat that added to his considerable height.”

Zachariah•Lonely, wants to be friends with Charlotte

Doyle

•Black

•Has many jobs - cook, surgeon, carpenter, preacher

•Seems innocent

•“cook, surgeon, carpenter, and preacher to man and ship. “ p 22

•“His clothing, what I could see of it, was even more decrepit than the previous sailor’s, which is to say, mostly rags and tatters.” p 21

Mr. Keetch

•2nd mate

•Against Captain Jaggery

•Blackmailed by Captain Jaggery

•“He [Keetch] was too nervous, uncertain.”

•“Too grateful that we spared his [Keetch] life.”