The True Confessions Of
Charlotte Doyle
By: Avi
Part 1: Chapter 1 and 2
• Charlotte Doyle is about to get on The Seahawk. The
ship’s captain is Captain Jaggery. She is surprised to
hear how much many people loathe him. She must be
put on this boat with 2 other families. When she hears
that she will be the only passenger that is not part of the
crew, she is very lonely. She has met only one person of
the crew that she believes she can befriend.
Chapter 3 and 4
• Once Charlotte has awoken upon the ship, she decides
that she will get off the ship and make it back to her
school where her teacher will make the necessary
decisions on what to do next. When she is shaken and
nauseated, she realizes that if she were to get off the
boat, she would be flung into the sea. She is given a dirk
from Zachariah. After throwing the dirk, she realizes that
she must return it to Zachariah. After walking outside,
she feels the rain. The sea is like the sky, dark and gray
Chapter 5 and 6
• Charlotte is furious after Zachariah has told her that
Captain Jaggery has taken a man’s arm right off of his
body. After that matter, she has been invited to have tea
with the captain. After talking for a while, he has told her
of his secret place where he keeps his muskets and that
they are all loaded but locked and that there are no other
guns aboard the ship. After the captain has given orders
out to the crew, Mr. Hollybrass is asked to have Mr.
Barlow show Charlotte where her trunk is stored. Barlow
is telling the same story that Zachariah did, but Charlotte
still doesn’t believe either of them. She goes to get her
trunk but is scared and even more when the candle goes
out and everything goes black.
Chapter 7 and 8
• Charlotte is still stuck in pitch black. She believes that
she sees a head. She pulls out the dirk and grabs for it.
She is irritated that she was scared of a carving in a
brown nut. Charlotte is going out of her mind trying to
figure out if she had seen 2 heads instead of just 1, and
if it was someone she didn’t recognize or someone new.
She is now going through her life on board the Seahawk.
Meals were not as good because things tend to go bad.
Getting ready was not as easy because she had to go
over ever aspect to get as clean as she could. She is
told of the storm from Captain Jaggery.
Chapter 9
• Charlotte is talking to Ewing, another crew member,
when a needle breaks and Ewing needs to get a new
one. Charlotte is kind enough to offer her help and she
must fetch the needle from the forecastle. As she
reaches the door, she hears muted voices. She now
knows that the crew kept the other families off and that
they do not want Charlotte on the boat spying on them.
She finds out she has not recognized the other face
before because he was the stowaway. She feels she
must go to Captain Jaggery with this new information.
Chapter 10 and 11
• Captain Jaggery is not amused be the Red Robin that
Charlotte has found in the forecastle. After telling him of
such a thing, he gets his muskets and a whip and is now
going to try and punish one of the crew members for
trying to get the rest of the crew against him. He learns
of Cranick, the stowaway and feels he must get rid of
him once and for all. After killing him, He attempts to
murder Zachariah. Charlotte does not like this outcome
and grabs the whip and slashes Jaggery’s face. He is
mad and walks away. He believes he has killed
Zachariah, but only the crew know that Zachariah is not
dead, only cut up but the whip.
Chapter 12
• Charlotte knows what she did wrong and she tries to
made amends with the captain. She feels the sooner the
better. She goes to his cabin and asks for forgiveness
but Captain Jaggery is not forgiving her for the mark she
left on his face. She feels even lonelier than she did
when she first got on the ship. She tries to help the crew
out but no one is letting her. They are all using the
excuse that she is the lady passenger but she believes
differently. She manages to say one thing to the crew
she never thought she would. “I’ve come to be one of the
crew.”
Part 2: Chapter 13
• The crew is not completely sure that she is trust worthy
or is even telling the truth, but she keeps trying until they
say yes. All men agree that if she can climb the royal
yard, the biggest mast, and come back down whole and
is still willing to serve as one of the crew then they will let
her be one. She has fulfilled her task and is now part of
the crew. Captain Jaggery has watched all of this and is
now walking towards her.
Chapter 14 and 15
• Captain Jaggery is not happy and now that she is part of
the crew she must sleep in the forecastle instead of her
old cabin. The captain gives Mr. Hollybrass orders to put
Charlotte’s stuff in the forecastle and put her down as
Mister Doyle and log that Miss Doyle was lost. After days
and days of working, Charlotte learns of a hurricane
coming. They go through the hurricane and disaster
strikes as Mr. Hollybrass was stabbed in the back and
murdered. Captain Jaggery blames Charlotte.
Chapter 16 and 17
• Charlotte must now have a trial to try and prove she is
not guilty. She is put down in the brig and must now wait
until it is time for the trial to start. She has been waiting
for only a couple of minutes and she has already found
out that Zachariah is not dead. They try and figure out
who really murdered Hollybrass but they are cut short
when Captain Jaggery comes down to tell Charlotte that
she will have a trial.
hiding
Chapter 18 and 19
• Her trial is beginning and she is not happy when the
captain accuses her of being guilty of murder. He has
given her the penalty of being hanged in the next 24
hours. Charlotte is led back to the holding brig. Charlotte
has told Zachariah of her punishment for something she
did not do. Zachariah and Charlotte come up with the
conclusion that the captain does know that Zachariah is
alive and that he accused Charlotte for murdering
Hollybrass so that she can admit that Zachariah is alive
and he wants prove so that he can kill him for sure this
time.
Chapter 20 and 21
• Charlotte and Zachariah come up with a plan to get rid of
all of Captain Jaggery’s muskets and rally up the crew
again to fight against him. They have gotten Keetch to
agree to the plan and he is going to tell the rest of the
crew about it. Charlotte goes to the captain’s cabin and
she is caught getting in to the cabin. Captain Jaggery is
there waiting for her. He is telling her about Keetch and
how he was the one who has told the captain about
everything the crew is doing. He has admitted to killing
Hollybrass and blaming it on her. He gets one of his
pistols and fires it. He plunges at her as the crew
watches. He is flung into the sea, never to be seen again
Chapter 22 and 23
• Zachariah is now the captain and they have reached
providence. Charlotte is home with her family and they
only treat her with disrespect. They burn all of her things
that she had on the ship. She is disappointed by
everything that is going on and she looks in the
newspaper for when the Seahawk is sailing again. She
packs her things and goes to the dock. The ship is
getting ready to sail just as she boards the ship. She is
now living on the boat.