eck. com/student/tmdbfwyfe 5 I am thirteen, and I am going to sail across the ocean. Although I would like to wasom alone! alone! flying over the water!—I'm not. My mule-self begged Da for five-foot sailboat with a motley crew. three uncles and two cousins. The uncles - Down, ock- are my mother's brothers, and she told them. "If the slightest harm comes to string you all up by your toes." 6.7(C) analyze plot elements including rising action climax falling action resolution and non-linear elements such as flashback 6 She isn't worried (although maybe she should be) about the influence of my Bria- quiet, studious, serious Brian-but she frets over the bad habits I might learn from my other cousin, Cody. Cody is loud, impulsive, and charming in a way my mother does not trust. He's too charming," she says, "In a dangerous sort of way." 7 My mother isn't the only person who is not thrilled for me to take this trip. My uncles Stew and Mo tried their best to talk me out of it. "It's going to be a bunch of us guys, doing guy things, and it wouldn't be a very pleasant place for a girl," and "Wouldn't you rather stay home, Sophie, where you could have a shower every day?" and "It's a lot of hard work." and yakkety-yak they went. But I was determined to go, and my mule-self kicked in, spouting a slew of salling and weatherFerms, battering them over the head with all the things I'd learned​