Captain Jaggery In The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle

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Captain Jaggery is like a shark and the other people on the boat are the minnows. In the book The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle we learn a lot about the Captin, Captin Jagory. Captain Jaggery is the captain of the sea hawk. He loves being mean to the sailors but mostly Charlotte. At the beginning of the book, the captain was very nice to charlotte because he thought she would spy for him and she did spy for him, in part one. No one on the sea houk really liked the captain. Zachariah even called him, “the worst captain.” In part one of the The True Confessions Of Charlotte Doyle Captain Jaggery is very nice to Charlotte. He is nice to Charlotte because her dad was the person who got him the job. He must have thought that Captain

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