A High Wind In Jamaica Reflection

Reflection
You’re caught. The FBI has everything -- all the bank records, the emails, and the SEC filings. You know you’re going away for insider trading for a long time. What goes through your mind at the very moment you know it’s over? You probably ask yourself, “How did it come to this?” Your mind starts racing, thinking about all the choices you made and all the things you could have done differently. In A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes, Captain Jonsen was surely asking himself the same questions when his fate was sealed. Captain Jonsen’s failure to rid himself of the children, his bad reputation, and trusting Emily to tell his story ultimately lead to his demise.
Captain Jonsen realizes that having the children on board is dangerous to him and tries to free himself of them. When the narrator writes, “Captain Jonsen was trying to get the lady to discuss the disposal of his impromptu nursery: the most reasonable solution being plainly to leave them at Santa Lucia, more or less in her charge. It was not till the banquet was over that he realized he had failed to make any arrangement whatsoever,” he demonstrates that Captain Jonsen knows the importance of removing the children from the ship but fails (108). By failing to persuade the
With no options left, Captain Jonsen put his trust in Emily. While trying to persuade Emily to help him, Captain Jonsen says, “What on Earth were children’s heads made of, inside” (206). This indicates that he knows it was going to be difficult for Emily to play the part he is giving her. Otto equally has doubts about the plan by saying, “Well, he had done his best: but Otto felt heavy at heart. That little cherub! He didn’t believe she could keep a secret for ten seconds” (226). Being backed into a corner, Captain Jonsen has no other choice but to go ahead with his plan and put his trust in Emily, which ends in