Assignment 3

Well, I said I would have like to see the story pick-up more, in the sense of more fear since it is a gothic novel. It picked up, but not in the way I was hoping, it was somewhat better though. At first I thought that it was starting to show some of the detail in the setting again. I thought that although it was the generic " dark and stormy" day it still started to set the mood for wht was about to happen, as well as the (in my assumption, almost medievil looking) school that she is going to. I understand that you have to establish the character to an extent, but I just could not deal with all the detail. I thought that, there were more aspects of terror, both in psychological and physical ways. I think that the way Mr. Brocklehurst tries to force religion on her by scaring her into thinking that she will go to hell for doing anything that the Bible sees as unjust and not repent for in essence. The physical is more so with Helen because of how Miss Scatcherd treats her. I think that Helen's philosophy is good to an extent. I think that it is good to be forgiving, but at some point you do have to stand up for yourself, as Jane said. I think that also continues to show Jane's strength as a character.

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.

Assignment 5 -- Jane Eyre pgs 177-211

Read the assigned chapters, then write a 250 word (well-edited! thoughtful!) blog/reaction. Consider the following questions as your write.

Are you enjoying the book so far? Why/why not?

Chapter 14 gives more insight on the nature of Rochester through his battle of wits with Jane. What is revealed about Rochester here? What is the outcome of their conversation?

Why does Jane become more affectionate and tolerant of Adèle, both literally and figuratively?

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Jane Eyre is an Orphan who lives with her Aunt and her cousins in a big old house. Jane is not very well liked by any of them. Her cousins pick on her and her Aunt makes her seem like she is a burden. Jane Eyre is treated like one of the slaves. Jane does not have many friends, mostly fiends. Their is one nanny that takes better care of them than the rest of them her name is bessie. I feel like Jane is a lot like Charlotte, in living a lonely cold life. 

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I think that Miss Temple is the complete opposite of all other characters in the book because she's actually sort of nice to Jane Eyre. She at least acknowledges that she exists unlike her very cruel aunt. I feel this way because the other teachers are definitely not very nice and understanding and they always punish the children for the most idiotic reasons and the other adults always treat Jane Eyre like a piece of garbage and they don't even give her a chance and just hit and beat her for the smallest little things. I completely disagree with Mr. Brocklehurst's view of education. I feel this way because just because his view of everything is that if you don't bathe then you get beat and that everyone should live in harsh, bad living environments, and he thinks that all little girls should get their hair cut off so they won't be self centered and conceited. I heavily disagree with that because just because a girl has long hair that doesn't automatically mean that a girl is going to be conceited. Also living in harsh living environments would be terrible because that could mess with the minds of little children and make their attitude even worse. I also don't believe that getting small amounts of food would help the discipline of any little growing children because children that are growing need more food anyways.

Jane Eyre assignment 2

I think that this book is a very sad and depressing book. I feel this way because Jane Eyre is a little orphan child with really no one that loves her and the only person that ever loved her was her uncle. Also she works as a servant for her very mean aunt. The aunt tells Jane Eyre that if she doesn't learn how to talk and act right she can't come back into her house. Also even though Jane Eyre is a part of their family and treated Jane as if she was a good for nothing dog. I think that Charlotte Bronte make Jane Eyre's life like that because it might resemble how Charlotte fell while she was living her life. I think that this book also shows how lonely and afraid Charlotte Bronte was living as a child and living with three sisters and a brother. Jane Eyre's allies was really only her uncle because he was the only person that would ever have been there for Jane Eyre and now that he's dead she really has no friends and her enemies are pretty much her entire family becuase they don't treat her fairly or with respect and they always just give her a terrible time. I noticed that when i looked up Charlotte Bronte's life it said that she really put a lot of effort into this book and really brought her soul into the subject that she was talking about.

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In chapters eight through fourteen, Jane endures very harsh conditions at the school she attends, she is starved, mistreated and shun away by her fellow classmates when she has done nothing wrong, and even loses her best friend Helen Burns to typhoid fever. Like other mistreated, unfortunate, heroines from fairytales and children’s stories, Jane is treated very badly but she herself is just an innocent child caught up in the wrong setting, she has no guidance and no parental figure to help her grow. This story reminds me of Annie and Oliver Twist because she is poor, alone in the world, and has no one there for her, but it also seems to have a hint of Cinderella and Snowwhite because she does have some distant relatives who really don’t care much for her and don’t really want to take responsibility for her. Her friends in the story are: Helen(whom she sadly loses along the way), Miss Temple, and Mrs. Fairfax, whom she goes to live with in a place called Thornfield. She moves here with Mrs. Fairfax to be a sort of nanny to a little, French speaking, girl who Mr. Rochester is in charge of. Mrs. Fairfax describes the owner of the estate as a great stately man who is not around for a lot of the time but has good intentions and is well respected. Charlotte Bronte achieves the effect of making him out to look like the flawless romantic hero’s we all know and love by having Mrs. Fairfax tell us about him as sort of an introduction rather than having him just appear in the story and blend in like everyone else. He’s the typical knight in shining armor, the wealthy owner of a big beautiful estate who is all about helping the less fortunate.

Assignment 4 -- Jane Eyre, pgs 89-177 (Chpts 8-14)

Write a 300 word blog/journal. Consider the following questions in your entry. Also, as a reminder, feel free to read and respond to your classmates blogs!

Compare Jane Eyre to other mistreated heroines from children's stories (Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White). Given that Jane Eyre is the novel that broke many rules about how a mistreated heroine should act, compare and contrast them to Jane.

What affect does Mrs. Fairfax's description of Rochester have on the reader? How does Brontë achieve this affect?

Comment on the character and appearance of Rochester. How does he measure up to other romantic heroes?

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This section of the book was so very pessimistic and even more morbid than the last section. It seem like no matter where Jane goes, misfortune will follow her. Its hopeless…Chapter five starts with Jane’s journey to her new school, there she quickly makes friends with a girl named Helen Burns and is interviewed by one of her new teachers, Miss Temple. This one teacher differs from all the other adult characters in this book so far because she is actually nice to the students and goes easy on them, while the others hit and punish for the smallest little things. She was also responsible for their extra bit off food that they received because of her consideration that the breakfast was inedible and too small in portion. In chapter six, Jane sees her only friend Helen get punished and beaten for not having clean nails, this was an unfair punishment, as the water in the pitchers was frozen and it was not really her fault that she couldn’t bathe. Helen justifies this as a way of being corrected and in the big holy book it says to love your enemies. I still, however, have to agree with Jane, if someone hurts you, your instinct is naturally to dislike them, not accept their criticism and punishments. This also seems to be Mr. Brocklehurst’s view on education, that and harsher terms of living, such as ridiculously small rations of food and cutting off all the girls hair so that they wont be vain. I really don’t like him and if there is a ghost of monster of some sort in this story, I hope he is the first to go, followed by Jane’s aunt.

Assignment 3

Chapter five begins with Jane leaving Gateshead Hall early in the morning, embarking on a long carriage ride to her new school. She arrives there late at night but doesn’t notice much as she is tired and falls asleep soon after she arrives. The next day, she is woken up before dawn and is immediately subject to long hours of sitting still through classes, overworked and underfed. Most of the teachers are cruel and unforgiving, regularly beating the children for trivial things. When Jane was still living with the Reeds, Mr. Brocklehurst, the owner of the school, came to visit and interview Jane. He was a harsh, cold man and when he spoke of the other teachers, you presumed they would be of the same demeanor. However, when Jane got to school one of the teachers stood out from the others. Miss Temple was probably the kindest teacher there. She rarely punished the students and felt terrible when doing so, even to the worst behaved students. Miss Temple is one of the first adult characters in the novel that displays any sort of affection, besides Bessie. Helen Burns, a fellow pupil at the school, is cruelly mistreated by one of the teachers on a daily basis. Jane is surprised to learn that she puts up with it without a fight. Helen tells her that she lives by a philosophy of loving her enemies and accepting her hardships. I think this is a bold belief for a child to live by and shows that she is wise beyond her years. Mr. Brocklehurst’s philosophy of education is incredibly harsh and biased, treating the children as if they were slaves. He believes in denying the body and soul of indulgences, forcing hard labor and self-deniance upon them. 

Assignment 3 -- Pages 49-89 Blog

Write a 250 word blog in response to pages 49-89 (chapters 5-7). Consider the following questions as you read and write:

• How does Miss Temple fit in with your expectations of her from Brocklehurst's interview with Jane? In fact, how does her character compare to most of the other adult characters encountered in the text so far?
• In Chapter 6, Jane receives another lesson in strength, this time from Helen Burns. What do you think of her philosophy?
• What do you think of Mr. Brocklehurst's philosophy of education in Chapter 7?

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The first 45 pages of the book “Jane Erye” give the reader a good look into Jane’s bleak life. She lives with her abusive aunt and three cousins who beat her and works as a sort of servant for them, her uncle who loved her and took her in when she didn’t have anyone has died and there is no one to protect her and make sure she is treated fairly. Charlotte Bronte makes Jane’s life seem so lonely and alienated from others even though she is related to the family she lives with, they treat her like a slave and don’t let her associate with them. They don’t let her sit with them and tell her to refer to them as her masters. Bronte probably gives Jane this job and puts her in this particular position because of how she felt in her lifetime and uses Jane’s sad life and situation to project her own life tragedies. Jane’s own cousins, aunt, one of the servants are all her enemies. Her one allie consists of one of the servants named Bessie who comforts her and helps her to the best of her abilities without Jane‘s aunt knowing. In this section of the book, Jane is locked up in the red room when she fights back at her cousin who injures her and thinks she sees a ghost appear in the room were her uncle died. She screams but the servants and her aunt think that she’s just trying to trick them into letting her out and keep her in there. Jane then wakes up in her room with Bessie and a plant doctor who tell her that she’s fallen ill. She tells the doctor of how unhappy she is in that place and all he can tell her is that she’s fortunate to have such a kind aunt and cousins and that she should be happy and grateful to live in such a splendid house. She just nods and her life as a Cinderella figure continues.

Assignment 2

Jane Eyre is an orphaned girl, living with her unforgiving aunt and cousins. She is usually kept by herself in a room for most of the day. When she isn’t locked up, she usually is kept busy cleaning. Later on in the novel, Jane works as a governess at Thornfield Manor. Charlotte Bronte most likely gave Jane Eyre this job because she was once a governess herself.  Jane has one ally, Bessie, the maid at Gateshead Hall. She is the only one there who treats her with any kindness, telling her stories and singing songs to her. Jane has absolutely no friends. The only children she has interacted with are cruel and beat her on a regular basis. At first I thought reading this book would be boring because I read it for school a few years ago, but I don’t really remember much of it so it will be interesting to be able to form a new opinion of it.  The novel so far is very dark and dreary, but I am interested in reading further and finding out about the school Jane is being sent to and how the book will digress. 

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Caitlin Doherty
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In the first four chapters I found out a lot about Jane Eyre. She is ten years old and an orphan living with her cruel aunt and cousins. The story starts with Jane coming in from a walk on a winter day and seeing her aunt and cousins sitting around the fire together. Then her aunt tells her to leave until she can speak and act right. Jane not knowing what she has done to be punished leaves and hides behind a curtain and reads. Then later her least favorite cousin John comes to look for her, but doesn’t see her behind the curtain and calls for his sisters. One looks in and gives away Jane’s hiding place. Then John, who likes to harass Jane, uses her hiding as an excuse to taunt and then hurt her. He pulls Jane’s hair so hard her head bleeds and then she hits John. He cries for his mother and she sees Jane hit him and calls Bessie and Abbot, servants, to pull her away and lock her in the red-room. The red-room is were Jane’s uncle, who was nice to her for the short time she knew him, died and when Jane is locked in there she starts getting scared. Then Jane sees a light on the wall coming from nothing and runs to the door to try to open it and finds it locked so she screams. Bessie and Abbot come running and ask her what’s wrong and if she’s ill she says no, but is crying and tells them what happened. Then her aunt comes up and scolds the servants for opening the door when she said not to until she came for Jane. They explain what happened and Jane begs her aunt to have mercy and punish somewhere else her aunt ignores her and walks away telling the servants to keep Jane where she is and then Jane faints. When Jane wakes up Bessie and the apothecary Mr. Lloyd are in the nursery looking at Jane who is now in her own bed. Jane recovers and a few months pass. Then one day her aunt calls Jane to come downstairs and she enters the drawing room where she is never allowed and a tall man is there. He asks Jane’s name then tells her he is Mr. Brocklehurst from Lowood School. The three talk and her aunt tells him Jane is a horrible child who lies and never follows orders. They finish talking and he hands Jane a book about a bad girl who suddenly died and then tells her aunt that Jane can come to the school. He leaves and Jane gets up her courage and tells off her aunt and tells her how her aunt and cousins are the bad ones. She scares her aunt and wins a feeling of vengeance then later she feels bad so she goes out for a walk. Bessie calls for her and then comes to get her when she doesn’t come and scolds her. Jane hugs Bessie and tells her she’s leaving and they talk then they go spend the afternoon together and Jane experiences happiness, a very rare feeling for her.
I don’t understand the question what is Jane’s job because she’s just a child and doesn’t have one so I can’t answer the first two questions. Jane’s allies are Mr. Lloyd and Bessie. Her enemies are her aunt, her cousins, Abbot, and Mr. Brocklehurst.

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Jane Eyre starts off with Jane taking a walk during a chilly afternoon and coming back and seeing a few little children cuddling with their mother next to a fire, and the mother has a look of perfect peace on her face. and a little girl accuses Jane of something and Jane is put in a kind of time-out for a while until she can speak respectfully. and then a school boy named John catches Jane behind a curtain and ask what she was doing and Jane answers "Reading". and John scolds her for that. Jane then insuls him and he cries and whines about it and says he'll snitch to "Mamma". Jane is taken away and she ressits that whole time and it takes two people to stop her. all this stuff happens, but Jane then see's something and a girl named Bessie asks her what she saw and Jane answers "A Ghost". Jane is left in the red-room and she eventually falls asleep and wakes up hours later. And John is there. a song is sang and Jane falls down and Bessie comes and then an Apothocary comes and asks what happened. and Jane says she was pushed. and Jane is feeling ill. the apathocary asks why and says that she is ill from being in the same room as a ghost until after dark.

Then Jane meet's Mrs Reed and she scolds Jane a little bit and says what would Uncle Reed say is he could hear you now. and in a flash christmas, the new year and november, december, and january passed. and Jane keeps defying people over the months. and then Jane is sent so some room where she meets a man who asks her all these questions about her. the man keeps interrogating her for a while, asking all these weird questions. after the questiong Jane went back to the nursery so they could treat her illness. and then Mrs Reed scolds her calling a liar and Jane argues back. and Jane talks to Bessie and they have a long talk. Bessei calls Jane all these names, but says that she doesn't dislike Jane, but holds her in the highest regard. and then Bessie tells Jane all of these enchanting stories. and that's the end.