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I Know That Trelawney is a Very Simple Soul, but ...

posted 15 years ago by HijodelCid
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... I cannot believe that he would allow himself to be so fooled by Silver's guile that he would let him pick the crew, something that is obviously the responsibility of the captain of the ship, not of the cook.

God is subtle, but He is not malicious. (Albert Einstein)

[–] Sunflower64 14 years ago

Don't blame Squire Trelawney. Blame the man who lives in his finger.

A young girl passes / in a hurry. Hair uncombed. / Full of black devils. --Kelly Link

[–] ShiningSeal 13 years ago

Agreed. But I guess all Trelawney had on his mind was the gold/treasure, and being the spontaneous person he is, wanted to set sail ASAP.
Put all of that together and you'll wind up with some bad decision-making, lol.

[–] magolding 10 years ago

.. I cannot believe that he would allow himself to be so fooled by Silver's guile that he would let him pick the crew, something that is obviously the responsibility of the captain of the ship, not of the cook.

Picking the crew is the responsibility of whoever is in charge or whoever they delegate it it. It doesn't necessarily have to be the captain.

If the captain owned teh ship and it was rented from him he would be ore likley to choose the crew than if someone else owned teh ship and he was merely hired to command teh voyage.

Did sailors in those days sign on to serve on a particular ship for a specified number of years, or hired to work for a shipping company which had several ships and were often transferred from ship to ship, or were they hired for each voyage and released at the end?

These are all factors which influence who gets to select the crew.