In The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle, whose good opinion of Charlotte gains her the license to be liked?Also, what does Charlotte decide to...

In the novel The True Confessions of Charlotte
Doyle by Avi, the member of the crew who tells the rest that Charlotte
"believes in honor" and is "the vey soul of justice" is  Zachariah.  Fisk later tells
Charlotte that Zachariah said this.  Charlotte decides to apologize and to help the
crew. She believes she has left them short of help when she told Captain Jaggery about
the round robin that she found, and Captain Jaggery punishes Zachariah harshly.  The
crew aks her climb to the top of the main mast to prove that she was serious and to gain
the respect of the crew, which she does successfully.