Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre:

Chapters 1-13

1.       Does the story being told by Jane add or take away from the story, in comparison to Pride and Prejudice? Is it more effective to use first person in a story like this?-diary like

2.       Do you think the ghost of the Uncle is foreshadowing?

3.       Was it wise of Jane to speak her mind to her abusive guardians?

4.       Is the voice of Jane more mature than what you think would be the voice/attitude of a child? How do you think the story would have been if it was told in a children’s voice, rather than an adult’s account of the events?

5.       How is the immediate harshness of the abuse more striking than it would have been if the readers were given the backstory first?

6.       Is the comfort from Bessie with the tart/songs a show of the “faithful servant” (because she is lesser than the people she serves in some way) attitude like in the past books we have read or just a kindness?

Quotes:

·         Pg.166 top of the page where she is describing herself

·         Pg.160 how she starts the chapter

·         Pg. 157 The family’s karma, was this included for a reason?

·         Pg. 146 towards the end when Helen is dying

·         Pg. 129 after she drops the plate

·         Pg. 117 “Yet it would….bear”

·         Pg 110 Connection to Rasselas

·         Pg 99 First kind of happy moment

·         Pg 95 “I am not deceitful…not I”

·         Pg 93 “Humility is a Christian grace”

·         Pg 87 Relationship with doll

·         Pg 84 3^rd paragraph

·         Pg 72 2^nd paragraph