Summary for Clarissa Oakes
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== CHAPTER 1 == | == CHAPTER 1 == | ||
| - | ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' in [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]], [[Stephen Maturin|Stephen]] recovered - [[Jack Aubrey|Jack]] hipped - made game of by Selina Wesley - consults Stephen, not comforting - [[divisions]] - [[Easter Island]] described - [[ | + | ''[[HMS Surprise (ship)|Surprise]]'' in [[Pacific Ocean|Pacific]], [[Stephen Maturin|Stephen]] recovered - [[Jack Aubrey|Jack]] hipped - made game of by Selina Wesley - consults Stephen, not comforting - [[divisions]] - [[Easter Island]] described - [[Clarissa Oakes (character)|Clarissa Harvill]] found in [[cable tier]] - Oakes owns up - Jack will put both ashore on [[Norfolk Island]]. |
== CHAPTER 2 == | == CHAPTER 2 == | ||
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== CHAPTER 5 == | == CHAPTER 5 == | ||
| - | Cracking on for Moahu - [[Sarah and Emily Sweeting|Sarah and Emily]] useful in [[sickbay]] - | + | Cracking on for Moahu - [[Sarah and Emily Sweeting|Sarah and Emily]] useful in [[Lexicon:Sick bay, sick berth|sickbay]] - |
Reade injured - reveals Clarissa being visited - Jack explains [[Batten down|battening down]] - | Reade injured - reveals Clarissa being visited - Jack explains [[Batten down|battening down]] - | ||
[[whaler]] sighted at Annamooka, Friendly Islands - Oakes beating Clarissa - Friendly Islanders come aboard with Captain of whaler - briefing on war | [[whaler]] sighted at Annamooka, Friendly Islands - Oakes beating Clarissa - Friendly Islanders come aboard with Captain of whaler - briefing on war | ||
| - | in Moahu and ''Franklin'' [[privateer]] - whaler's surgeon, [[Lexicon:Hydrophobia|hydrophobia]]. | + | in Moahu and ''Franklin'' [[privateer]] - whaler's surgeon, [[Lexicon:Hydrophobia|hydrophobia]]. |
== CHAPTER 6 == | == CHAPTER 6 == | ||
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Clarissa safety in [[London]] - ambush set up for Kalahua's men - Oakes to take | Clarissa safety in [[London]] - ambush set up for Kalahua's men - Oakes to take | ||
''Truelove'' to Batavia with Clarissa - reception by Queen Puolani, she | ''Truelove'' to Batavia with Clarissa - reception by Queen Puolani, she | ||
| - | accepts [[ | + | accepts [[George III|King George]] (Jack)'s protection - battle in mountain cleft, massacre - cannibal feast with Puolani, Kalahua eaten - bed with Puolani - Oakes sails with ''Truelove'', ''Surprise'' in pursuit of ''Franklin''. |
| - | [[Category:Book summary|Clarissa Oakes/The Truelove]] | + | [[Category:Book summary|Clarissa Oakes/The Truelove]][[Category:Clarissa Oakes (novel)]] |
Current revision as of 01:39, 12 November 2007
| SPOILER WARNING: Plot or ending details for "Clarissa Oakes" follow. |
A chapter by chapter look at Clarissa Oakes
Contents |
CHAPTER 1
Surprise in Pacific, Stephen recovered - Jack hipped - made game of by Selina Wesley - consults Stephen, not comforting - divisions - Easter Island described - Clarissa Harvill found in cable tier - Oakes owns up - Jack will put both ashore on Norfolk Island.
CHAPTER 2
Norfolk Island - Bonden reports landing impossible - Jack cheers up - Éclair cutter, Jack tries to ignore her - trigonometry in gunroom, wasted on Stephen and Martin - Oakes and Clarissa married - cutter catches up in the night - mail for Surprise - ordered to Moahu - dinner with officers and Clarissa - Jack describes cutting out of Hermione - Clarissa well-behaved.
CHAPTER 3
Diana's letters worrying, Brigid stupid, disagreements with Sophia - Stephen describes Clarissa, pleasant but implacable - consults Stephen, not pregnant - Jack, now landowner, offers parish to Martin - West and Davidge on bad terms - Clarissa disturbing all the officers, including Jack - swordfish caught, gunroom can have wedding feast.
CHAPTER 4
Stephen dissects swordfish, in haste - royal salute - gunroom dinner, Davidge hurt - West describes Glorious First of June - Jack concerned at ill-feeling among officers - midshipman Reade over-indulges - all seems due to jealousy over Clarissa.
CHAPTER 5
Cracking on for Moahu - Sarah and Emily useful in sickbay - Reade injured - reveals Clarissa being visited - Jack explains battening down - whaler sighted at Annamooka, Friendly Islands - Oakes beating Clarissa - Friendly Islanders come aboard with Captain of whaler - briefing on war in Moahu and Franklin privateer - whaler's surgeon, hydrophobia.
CHAPTER 6
Jack briefs Stephen - watering and trading on Annamooka - quarrel over feeding pigs - Martin refuses to accompany Clarissa ashore - Stephen walks with her - Clarissa volunteers her history - incest, child abuse, Mother Abbott's - Ledward and Wray, and their Ducal friend.
CHAPTER 7
Stephen writes to Blaine, asks protection for Clarissa - Martin, Dr Falconer's account of volcanoes - unseamanlike exit from Annamooka - Jack refuses Tom Pullings' invitation to gunroom dinner - Tom explains ill-will due to Clarissa - Jack rebukes West and Davidge - Clarissa's indifference to male nudity - Captain's dinner, the Oakeses well and happy - Clarissa melancholy afterwards.
CHAPTER 8
Seven men flogged - Clarissa tells Stephen she was often raped - for her, kindness and sex not connected - Stephen and Martin go fishing, shark - heavy exercise for crew - Stephen advises Clarissa - helps Jack choose flying column, with tale of Finn MacCool - Clarissa watches gunnery exercise - Jack tells crew to disguise Surprise as whaler for attack at Moahu.
CHAPTER 9
Pabay, northern Moahu - men off fighting Queen Puolani - Davidge and column run to cut off Frenchmen headed south - Davidge killed and all Frenchmen - Surprise hastens south to Eeahu - Stephen offers Clarissa safety in London - ambush set up for Kalahua's men - Oakes to take Truelove to Batavia with Clarissa - reception by Queen Puolani, she accepts King George (Jack)'s protection - battle in mountain cleft, massacre - cannibal feast with Puolani, Kalahua eaten - bed with Puolani - Oakes sails with Truelove, Surprise in pursuit of Franklin.
