The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor

The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor Analysis The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor was written by Sally Armstrong and published in 2007. The novel is based in 1775 shortly after people first started to settle in North America for land and improve their lives. It begins on board a boat crossing the ocean from England to the new world then they land in Jamaica for a short time then Charlotte makes her way to west Nova Scotia (present day New Brunswick) where she ends up in three different locations including Baie des Charleurs, Blake Brook and finally ends up along the Tabisintack River. The author’s motivation to write this book was in memory to her distant relative Charlotte Taylor and the first white women to live in the harsh weather of Canada. The history involved in this book is its most interesting part for most readers. This book is a creative non-fiction in the form of a biography because it follows the life of Charlotte Taylor. Life was hard for early settlers of Canada and this novel gives you a first person view of their hardships and that is the message the author is trying to pass on the reader.

The first main part of the book is when Charlotte Taylor first arrives in New Brunswick. It is the first part of the novel that isn’t completely explained on the back cover of the book. The book starts to get slightly more interesting at this point because she starts to plan how she is going to avoid having to go back to England. She decides that she will run to the Indian camp and hide with them until the last boat to leave for England until spring leaves the port making it impossible for anyone to send her home. This plan works and Charlotte starts her new life in the new world with the Indians who are the reason she is able to survive the book.

The next big thing that happens is when the reader meets John Blake. John purposes marriage to Charlotte and she agrees to marry him. Her reason for the marriage is for survival for her and her new born baby not