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Comparing The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle And City Of Dark

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The author Avi writes very interesting books. I read the books The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle and City of Light City of Dark. I noticed Avi likes to write about kids because each protagonist is a child. I also noticed he likes to make them change because in the beginning of each book, the protagonists don’t like where they are, and in the end of the book, they want to stay where they are. The book, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle starts out in Great Britain. Charlotte goes on a ship called The Seahawk to go back to America to meet up with her family. While on the ship, she meets Captain Jaggery. She thinks she is too good for the crew so she befriends Captain jaggery. After Captain Jaggery shoots a stowaway and whips a man named Zachariah to death, she decides to join the crew. During a big storm, the captain's right hand man Hollybrass is murdered. Charlotte is accused of the murder and is sent to a dungeon until the time she is supposed to get hung. While in the dungeon, she finds out Zachariah has been living down here the whole time. She and Zachariah team up to make Jaggery confess to the murder of Hollybrass. Once Jaggery confesses to the murder he falls off the ship and dies. Charlotte decides to stay on the ship after being home for about a month. …show more content…

In both books, the protagonists are kids and they each become friends with some new people. Charlotte befriends the crew and Carlos befriends Sarah. The conflicts in each book are different from each other. In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, Captain Jaggery is a murderer and Unterton just wants power. The settings are also very different. Charlotte Doyle takes place on a boat in the 1800’s and City of Light, City of Dark takes place in a modern day city. The resolutions are moderately the same because in both books, the main antagonists die. But in Charlotte Doyle, Jaggery admits to murdering

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