The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle is an unexpected and oddly brilliant story with very strong and themes that are often unused in other pieces of literature. Some of these themes are very obvious by the end of the story, such as the theme of how order is simply an illusion, and one’s life should be spent being happy instead of holding onto order, as shown by Jaggery and Charlotte. There are some themes only found after some analyzing, like how boxes are only holding you so long as you stay in them. The topic of family is complemented well by the theme of how people may love who they would like you to be, but they do not love you. These are all strong themes that will be analyzed and discussed in this essay along with events in the book.
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Very soon later when he stops the crew’s mutiny against him and goes to whip Zachariah, when Charlotte refuses to do what he asks her to in chapter 11 he seems to snap a bit and forget about the image he wanted to keep up in front of Charlotte and the crew and becomes violent. During chapter twenty one when he describes how he keeps up his appearance of order it is clear that most would assume he was mad, when in truth it is just a fruitless pursuit of some sort of cleanliness. In the next chapter when his final grapes at order fails he falls apart and ends up driving himself into the ocean. He ran after order until his death. On the other hand, Charlotte found peace when abandoning order. In the first couple chapters, it can be seen how she finds it hard and uncomfortable to keep with order. In the first chapter, she has to hold herself back from asking questions. In the few chapters when she first …show more content…
While much of the theme is built up beforehand, it hits home around the time that Charlotte does in chapter twenty two. Charlotte’s family, particularly her father, are uncomfortable and unsure how to react to her. Her father interrupts her and changes the subject, her siblings (although young) make jokes and belittle her, and her mother simply ignores her. In a private setting, also in chapter twenty two, her father does the same things he had done before, but this time with an added touch of shame and disappointment. Her mother is still silent in this scene. In another scene, a couple pages after, when Charlotte has done what she was told for the past while and her father asks to see her to congratulate her on getting better at writing and spelling. He smiles and compliments her when makes a comment about having an ‘orderly life’ and he is glad that they ‘understand each other perfectly.’ The author makes it clear when she runs off to the Seahawk that her efforts in writing and spelling were simply to stay under the radar until she could leave. This shows how her father loves the idea of his daughter, but not his daughter herself. In contrast, the crew, who barely had an idea of who she was as a person, readily accepted her as she was though they did seem to have arguments. There are many examples of this from the scene where Charlotte makes it doen
Very soon later when he stops the crew’s mutiny against him and goes to whip Zachariah, when Charlotte refuses to do what he asks her to in chapter 11 he seems to snap a bit and forget about the image he wanted to keep up in front of Charlotte and the crew and becomes violent. During chapter twenty one when he describes how he keeps up his appearance of order it is clear that most would assume he was mad, when in truth it is just a fruitless pursuit of some sort of cleanliness. In the next chapter when his final grapes at order fails he falls apart and ends up driving himself into the ocean. He ran after order until his death. On the other hand, Charlotte found peace when abandoning order. In the first couple chapters, it can be seen how she finds it hard and uncomfortable to keep with order. In the first chapter, she has to hold herself back from asking questions. In the few chapters when she first …show more content…
While much of the theme is built up beforehand, it hits home around the time that Charlotte does in chapter twenty two. Charlotte’s family, particularly her father, are uncomfortable and unsure how to react to her. Her father interrupts her and changes the subject, her siblings (although young) make jokes and belittle her, and her mother simply ignores her. In a private setting, also in chapter twenty two, her father does the same things he had done before, but this time with an added touch of shame and disappointment. Her mother is still silent in this scene. In another scene, a couple pages after, when Charlotte has done what she was told for the past while and her father asks to see her to congratulate her on getting better at writing and spelling. He smiles and compliments her when makes a comment about having an ‘orderly life’ and he is glad that they ‘understand each other perfectly.’ The author makes it clear when she runs off to the Seahawk that her efforts in writing and spelling were simply to stay under the radar until she could leave. This shows how her father loves the idea of his daughter, but not his daughter herself. In contrast, the crew, who barely had an idea of who she was as a person, readily accepted her as she was though they did seem to have arguments. There are many examples of this from the scene where Charlotte makes it doen