A High Wind in Jamaica is set in The Caribbean during the mid-1800's. The book is about a group of children living on a pirate ship, and gives insight into the world that children live in. Over the course of the book, the children do many bad things, without feeling any guilt: Emily murders a man; Rachael drops a marlin spike from the mast almost killing Emily, and Emily condemns the captain and crew that she had come to love to death or deportation without seeming to care at all.
At the beginning of the story Emily is just an ordinary little girl, but as the story continues she begins to feel herself changing. By the end of the story, Emily has gained self-consciousness and thinks of herself not as an ordinary little girl but as "Emily".
Emily murders a captured Dutch captain, but she doesn't feel guilty and no one suspects that she did it. She only worries that she might be found out. She didn't even think that what she did was wrong:
Near the end of the book, Emily is......

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Title: A High Wind In Jamaica
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