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Grimes is a sailor on the Seahawk. Compared to many of the other sailors, he is sympathetic to Charlotte, being the one to propose that she climb the ship’s rigging in order to join the crew. He also tries to stand up for her when Jaggery forces her out onto the bowsprit and later trains her to use knives. However, this latter moment leads to him betraying Charlotte at her trial, when he admits that she knows how to use a knife and therefore could have killed Hollybrass.
Grimes Quotes in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle quotes below are all either spoken by Grimes or refer to Grimes. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13 Quotes
“I do mean it,” I said, finding boldness with repetition, “I want to be the replacement for Mr. Johnson.”
“You’re a girl,” Dillingham spat out contemptuously.
“A pretty girl,” Foley put in. It was not meant as a compliment. “Takes more than canvas britches to hide that.”
“And a gentlewoman,” was Grimes’s addition, as though that was the final evidence of my essential uselessness.
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Chapter 18 Quotes
So what we have here is a girl who admits she owns the weapon that murdered Mr. Hollybrass. A girl who lied about where she got it. A girl who was taught to use a blade, and learned to use it, as Mr. Grimes would have it, “uncommon” well. A girl who, all agree, is unnatural in every way she acts. Gentlemen, do we not, as natural men, need to take heed? Is it not our duty, our obligation, to protect the natural order of the world?
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Grimes Character Timeline in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
The timeline below shows where the character Grimes appears in The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 13
...Fisk theorizes that the rest of the men will feel the same way. One sailor, Grimes, proposes that, if Charlotte can climb the royal yard and down again and still wants...
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Chapter 14
...gib is at the very front of the ship. Jaggery orders Charlotte to do this; Grimes attempts to volunteer but is rejected. Charlotte goes onto the bowsprit, where the frightening seahawk...
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Chapter 15
The storm returns. Charlotte works below deck alongside Grimes, Keetch, and Johnson to pump water out of the ship in order to prevent it...
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Chapter 18
...self-defense, she cannot clearly answer who she needed to defend herself against. Jaggery also forces Grimes to admit that Charlotte has been practicing her knife skills, a practice that he considers...
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