Wednesday, September 12, 2007

9-23

-Jane Eyre is introduces into the novel. She explains that she is a lonely orphan that lives with her aunt and a couple cousins.
-John,Janes brother is introduced. "he bullied and punished me" John is Continuously abusing jane phsically and verbally. He has been doing this for a while so she is scared of him.
-Jane always gets punished such as when she hit john is a self-defence act. I wonder why they favor john over jane.
-Jane gets locked in the Red room where her uncle died. sence of irony or foreshadowing. shes sent there because she is being punished.
-Bronte alludes to death and depression such as ghosts, black dogs, 3 knocks on the door, lights over the grave.

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