Summary Of Dialectical Journal For Jane Eyre

It was in this tale that Odysseus is trapped in a cave by a menacing cyclops, known as Polyphemus. In an attempt to escape the young hero feeds the cyclops wine till he becomes drunk and finally passes out. Of that moment Odysseus takes his chance and stabs the giant in the eye. Preceding events then occur allowing for the hero to escape. Jane in this moment is on guard, not wishing people to discover wither her past or her true identity. She originally seemed perfectly content to tell them almost nothing. It isn’t until St. John says that he must know her history or else he cannot help her and that he will aid her to the utmost of his power that she finally obliges. This allusion stresses the fear she has of being found out and foreshadows that her telling this story or becoming close to this family will result in a blow. It is ironic, however, that unlike Polyphemus, Jane is rewarded for putting her guard down. In telling her story to her saviors, St. John is able to conclude her true identity and she collects freedom and happiness in her new found fortune and familial

In part one of the book, Jane is a very hurt child. She’s an orphan and her Uncle Reed takes her in but, he too passes away. Her Aunt Reed is not welcoming at all. She makes her children shun her and the servants treat her poorly as well. Jane is aware of the way the Gateshead residents feel about her. “I was a discord at Gateshead Hall; I was like nobody there; I had nothing in harmony with Mrs. Reed or her children, or her chosen vassalage If they did not love me, in fact, as little did I love them. They were not bound to regard with affection a thing that could not sympathize with one amongst them; a heterogeneous thing, opposed to them in temperament, in capacity, in propensities; a useless thing incapable of serving their interest, or adding to their pleasure; a noxious thing, cherishing their gems of indignation at their treatment, of contempt of their judgement. I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child-though equally dependent and friendless- Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the

We first see Jane; vulnerable and lonely at Gateshead, where the orphaned little girl resides with her bitter widowed aunt and her children. Jane is sent to the ‘Red Room’ for retaliating when her

“. . .if others don’t love me, I would rather die than live -- I cannot bare to be solitary and hated, Helen. Look here; to gain some real affection from. . .whom I truly love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken. . .’” (Brontë 82). Explanation: Jane Eyre, for all of her life prior to Lowood Academy, was disliked by her superiors and hated by those who should be considered her comrades. Finding comfort and love in Helen Burns, her first childhood friend, she confides her youthful desire to be loved. At such a young age, Jane desired even the most dilute of love, no matter the cost. Her immaturity hinders her happiness, causing her to feel as if she has been severely deprived of such fondness. Her tantrum not only leaves her friend stunned, but she learns a most valuable lesson in faith and doing what is most right with God that lasts with her throughout her journeys of woe and worry along Mr. Rochester’s side.

Readers learn early in the story that Jane Eyre does not fit contemporary society's idea of a proper woman.  As a child, Jane stands up to her aunt, Mrs. Reed, on more than one recorded occasion when Jane feels she has been treated unjustly (Brontë 28, 37).  At one point, Jane bluntly tells her aunt, "I declare, I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed [Jane's cousin]" (37).  This was at best improper behavior for a child in Victorian society, and it was most definitely seen as improper by Mrs. Reed who grows to hate Jane, calling her "tiresome, ill-conditioned" and "scheming" (26).  But her aunt's reprimands and hatred do not deter Jane from speaking up in the face of injustice.

Jane was not only resented but also lacking any kind of love to balance her out. We know this right away when she is reading her book and she notes "there were certain introductory pages I could not pass quite as a blank. They were

In the early stages of Jane's life she was a very autonomous girl. She grew up in a hostile environment in the home of Mrs. Reed and her three children, John, Eliza, and Georgiana that is known as Gateshead. The Reed family showed no love or any sort of affection towards Jane in any way, shape, or form; for they all despised her. She spent most of her time out of contact of others. The most contact she had with someone was a

Her Aunt as well as her only cousins resent Jane. She is an outcast, but nevertheless at only the age of

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Huck checked everywhere, to make sure no one was awake. Then he crept down the stairs, he saw the coffin. He figured out that the only place to hide the money bag, was Peter’s coffin. When he put it in, he heard someone coming behind them. He ran away but still watched. the person was Mary Jane. She began crying to the coffin, Huck ran away, and went back to bed. He kept thinking about what will happen to the money; he didn’t want to the king to take it. A thought came to him, they would find it when they went to screw the lid for the coffin.

This starts from the ending of the end of the 3rd paragraph on page 214 “We settled into the family carriage”. I used the author’s questions, but shaped Charlotte's answers and personality to resemble a true teenager in that century.

Jane’s first encounter with betrayal was when she was still a child and her Uncle Reed brought her along to live with him and his family in Gateshead, after Jane’s parents had passed away. Jane’s Uncle Reed had promised to raise her as if she were one of his own children. However, this only lasted until Uncle Reed passed away. After Jane’s uncle had passed, Jane’s aunt and her three children had mistreated her and in some cases physically abused. On one particular day she was minding her own business whilst reading Bewick’s History of British Birds, her obnoxious cousin John Reed was looking for Jane. Once he finds her, he treats her as if she was inferior to him, he wants his cousin to refer to him as Master Reed. This already not being indicative of raising Jane as one of their own, her cousin John continues to undermine her even more and takes the book from her and ends up throwing it at her causing her to get a cut by

John of course is the biggest antagonist, so we'll start with him. John once screamed like a spoiled baby at Jane for reading one of his books, and afterwards threw it at Jane, knocking her down at causing her to cut her head. He kept yelling at her, and shoving her and knocking her over. This by itself would be considered bullying, but combined with the fact that she is only ten, and that the only adult supervision completely sides with the little monster, it is easily child abuse. This is the only large conflict we see before Jane leaves the house, but it is insinuated that this is not the first time it happens.

I should say I loved you, but I declare I do not love you: I dislike

At the novel's opening, Jane is living with the cruel Mrs. Reed and her horrid three children, Eliza, Georgiana, and John. Mrs. Reed makes her distaste for Jane very evident in all of her actions. She forbids her to play with her (Mrs. Reed's) children (Jane's own cousins) and falsely accuses her of being a "liar" and of possessing a "mean spirit." Mrs. Reed's attitude is