Assignment 2

I thought the first four chapters of Jane Eyre were very interesting. I felt like the beginning of the book dragged to a certain extent. I thought that all of the description put into talking about certain characters was unnecessary. Maybe it’s just me, but I just did not like all of the descriptiveness of it. I understand that because it follows the whole gothic genre, it paints pictures of terror with descriptive details of settings and characters.

However, despite the obvious dislike from her semi-evil aunt and bratty cousin John, I don’t think that it is necessary to describe them in such a large amount of detail. I think the way she described the Uncle was necessary, because he passed away and seems like he a bigger impact on her.

I thought that some darkness of the story finally comes out when she sees the ghost in the red-room. I thought that is when details became very important. I felt like this painted a picture of the setting of the book because of the setting in the red-room and those descriptions. When she says, “the glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp,” it creates a mystery because you have no idea what she is really seeing. I think that my favorite part was when Jane stood up for herself when her aunt was trying to make things even more difficult her by throwing all these accusations about her lying, because I think showed her strength as a main character. I like the book somewhat; I just would like to see it pick up some more.