Answer:
b. rising action
Step-by-step explanation:
Thirteen-year-old girl Charlotte Doyle learns to be a sailor - after Captain Jaggery and Mr. Hollybrass kill Zachariah, a crew member of the ship she travels on - out of guilt feeling for his death. This action leads to climax of the book in which Charlote fight for her own life and survives by changing her own personality during events of cruelty and murders.