Bronte introduces the story of Jane Eyre with a negative sentence about having no possibility of taking a walk that day. However, next paragraph starts with positive reflection on that – Jane does not want to take a walk at all. These pair of sentences may have been about anything we like but they show us that there is not only one point of view, not only one way, moreover, we can always think about things in many different ways.
The beginning brings not so many actions taken but concentrates on the emotions, on developing the feeling of the story. We meet at Gateshead a young girl, Jane, with the History of British birds, excluded from the little society of the family Reed. She has not deserved at all to be treated like that. She is like an alien in front of humans who do not want to understand her but make her feel isolated. Her aunt, Mrs Reed, does not treat Jane as a member of the family – what she has promised her husband, uncle Reed, before he died – she, with pretty big help of her children, just leads her to feel unimportant, unneeded and finally isolated. The ‘red room’, which Jane is sent as a punishment to, can be seen as a prison what may emphasize the undeserved treating Jane as an enemy and excluding from the family.
All of that might have resulted in the imagination which Jane had. During her time in the ‘red room’ she could not resist the impression that her uncle Reed, who brought her into his house after her parents’ death, is present in the room with her. She was thinking that he might have come to punish his wife for not keeping a promise. After that night she wakes up in her bedroom in the care of Bessie and Mr Lloyd, who is the one who will suggest Jane’s aunt to send the girl away to school. Not so long after that Jane will broadens her knowledge of her family, by overhearing the conversation between Bessie and Miss Abbott.
Finally, about two months later, Jane is introduced to Mr Brocklehurst who runs the girls’ school in Lowood. In the conversation with him Jane mentiones that she finds psalms uninteresting. To deepen this bad impression, her aunt awares that she might be likely to lie. This accusation was painful for Jane and she felt really hurt by her aunt.
Let me say it again. She has not deserved such a treating at all. She is only the child who needs love and somebody’s interest. Is that too much?
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This is fine Paulina. You express your opinion of Jane's treatment at the end of your entry - I like this.
Next time keep the summary to a minimum and try to notice themes and the way Bronte shows Jane devloping. Also, notice how her physical surroundings are described.
i like the way you've got quite emotionally attached into finding out answers within the book; perhaps that was what charlotte bronte wanted to achieve.
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