A High Wind In Jamaica :: essays research papers

     A High Wind in Jamaica is set in The Caribbean during the mid-1800s. The book is more or less a group of children living on a pirate ship, and gives insight into the world that children live in. Over the course of the book, the children do many cock-a-hoop things, without feeling any guilt Emily murders a man Rachael drops a marlin spellbind from the mast almost killing Emily, and Emily condemns the captain and confederacy that she had come to love to remnant or deportation without seeming to cargon at all.     At the blood line of the degree Emily is just an everyday little girl, simply as the story continues she begins to feel herself changing. By the break off of the story, Emily has gained self-consciousness and thinks of herself not as an ordinary little girl but as Emily.Emily murders a captured Dutch captain, but she doesnt feel guilty and no one suspects that she did it. She only worries that she capability be found ou t. She didnt even think that what she did was wrong      cuddle the end of the book, Emily is brought to court to testify against the pirates. When asked virtually the murder of the Dutch captain, she cries He was all lying in his own bloodhe was atrociously Hehe died. Sobbing hysterically, Emily is carried out of the box by her father. As he stepped down with her she caught sight for the first time of Jonsen and the crewThe wicked look on Jonsens face as his eye met hers. once she is safely in a cab, she becomes herself with surprising rapidity. She began to talk more or less all she had seen, just as if it had been a party All Emily worries astir(predicate) is whether or not she said her piece properly.     Near the end of the book, Captain Jonsen decides to put the children on a steamer to England. Before they are sent to the new ship, he asks them not to tell anyone that he and the crew are pirates. Everyone agrees not to tell, and i t seems that all is well. When the children arrive on the steamer, they do not say anything about their stay on the pirate ship. When Emily becomes hysterical a stewardess carries her down to her room. While she is being put to bed, she tells the stewardess about the pirates, breaking her promise to Jonsen, Emily thinks nothing of it, and she feels relieved at having told someone.