Charlotte Tyre Women's Role In Society

Charlotte Doyle, a thirteen-year old who got on a ship, became part of the crew and later got charged with murder, got back to her fancy house with her family and decides to go back to the ship. This was such a radical decision since no one expected that a girl with the age of Charlotte would have left the comforts of her home to join a crew of sailors. However, what she did was correct since she felt like she no longer fitted with the upper class and their way of living. Charlotte was only thirteen years old; a normal girl at that age would have being going to school on the morning and then, maybe, having ballet or piano lessons; not getting out through her room’s window and joining a crew of sailors.
This girl was from a wealthy family; a family that dressed in a fancy way, had a big home and could even pay for servants. No one would ever leave the comforts of being from a wealthy family to join mariners that do rough work and live on a dirty boat, but she did. Charlotte was going to live and work with only men in a place full of fleas and roaches; and sleeping on a hammock. During this time, women´s role in the society were very simple; they had to marry someone, have children, and live the rest of their life serving him; which means that she would be going against society. …show more content…
Nevertheless, if she was going to be more happy, then, she made the right decision. If she had had stayed at home she would have been called crazy by her parents for writing insane, but real, stories from the journey to America. After being with the sailors she realized that she no longer fitted with the upper class and their way of doing things. So she makes a life-changing decision and decides to put on her sailor clothes and go to the “Indian Docks” with the people that she misses the most: Zachariah and the crew. “A sailor, chooses the wind that takes him to safe port… but winds have a mind on their own.” (Avi