Jane Eyre Keyonna Anderson Emma Simmons Maddie Cummings

Jane Eyre Keyonna Anderson, Emma Simmons, Maddie Cummings, Eric Alvarez, & Ben Fa Period 6, Group #2

The Prompt AP Prompt: "In the novel, childhood and adolescence are portrayed as times graced by innocence and a sense of wonder; in other sections of the novel, they are depicted as times of tribulation and terror. Explain how its representation of childhood or adolescence shapes the meaning of the work as a whole? " Literal Meaning: How does a childhood filled with happiness or tribulation shape the meaning of the novel? Connection to Jane Eyre: How does the tribulation in Jane's childhood shape the meaning of the novel?

Connection to Jane Eyre This prompt is relevant to the novel, as Jane's childhood is full of times characterized by terror and tribulation. Jane had a rough childhood at Gateshead filled with unfair treatment and hatred from her aunt and cousins. She was sent the Red Room ---> more terror. At Lowood, things are not much better as Jane struggles with Mr. Brocklehurst's hypocrisy and the horrible conditions at the school. However, Jane's childhood is also characterized by innocence, when she is unsure of Helen's reassurance that Jane does not need to worry of the Lowood girls' opinions of herself.

Connection to Charlotte Bronte In relation to Jane Eyre's childhood, Charlotte Bronte's had a lot of similarities. As Charlotte Bronte's parents died (her mother died when she was 5), she was sent to live with her aunt who treated her poorly, just as Jane stayed with the Reed family. Both Jane and Charlotte were sent away to boarding school where the staff and conditions were not pleasant. Both Jane and Charlotte endured a typhus epidemic. However, in Charlotte's case it took both of her sister's lives and she ended up returning home after. Charlotte's childhood had many of the same elements of tribulation as Jane, later shaping the construction of her character.

Examples From Text "'No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough; if others don't love me, I would rather die than live – I cannot bear to be solitary and hated, Helen. '" (61 -62) This illustrates Jane's early innocence as she wonders about other people's views and thoughts of her, even though Helen explained the importance of approving oneself and having God on her side. "'Do as I do: trust in God and yourself. Believe in heaven. Hope to meet again there. . . I advise you to live sinless, and I wish you to die tranquil. '" (301) Jane displays her maturity when she refuses to marry Mr. Rochester because it would violate her moral beliefs and cause her to lose respect for herself; she holds her values that she learned from Helen as an innocent child.

Connection to an AP Prompt The eighteenth century British novelist Laurence Sterne wrote, “Nobody, but who has felt it, can conceive what a plaguing thing it is to have a man’s mind torn asunder by two projects of equal strength, both obstinately pulling in a contrary direction at the same time. ” Choose a character whose mind is pulled in conflicting directions by compelling desires, ambitions, obligations, or influences. OLD AND DECIEVING OR RELIGIOUS AND INCONSIDERATE

Connection to AP Prompt Jane eventually had to choose between going back to Rochester or going to India to fulfill St. John’s request of marriage. Jane’s childhood self most likely would have gone with St. John, as she began to nurture her independence only after she spent agonizing time in Lowood and endured Helen’s death. However, Jane’s teenage/mature self chose Rochester because she knew she could resume her independent lifestyle with someone who truly cared for her, not one who was trying to complete their religious agenda. Why Jane chose the old Rochester in the end makes sense, but at the time who wouldn’t have gone with the hunk of a man St. John?

Literary Device #1 Repetition Jane’s isolation has resulted in Jane creating replacements for the love and companionship she needs, “With Bewick on my knee, I was happy: happy at least in my way. ” By repeating the word “happy”, Jane shows that she is happy enough, or as much as she can be in her current situation. In addition, by referring to the book as “Bewick", it portrays how Jane thinks of the book as a friend, something she lacks at Gateshead. Also, by choosing a bird book, Bronte shows that Jane maybe fantasizes about escaping, because birds can fly to any location and Jane cannot. In addition, there is a contrast between Jane and the birds because she is captured and isolated and birds are free to do what they want. Tribulations like this in Jane's childhood, shaped her character and those around her.

Literary Device #2 First-Person Narrative This literary device typically allows the protagonist to speak in terms of their own experiences. It is important because throughout the novel Jane presents us with events in her life that could only be accurately described by her when trying to analyze her feelings and view of her life as she matures throughout her adolescence. “Yet I had not forgotten his faults; indeed, I could not, for he brought them frequently before me. He was proud, sardonic, harsh to inferiority of every description: in my secret soul I knew that his great kindness to me was balanced by unjust severity to many others. " (Bronte 137)

Literary Device #3 Tactile Imagery "Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold; we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes, and melted there; our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet. I remember well. . . when my feet inflamed, and the torture of thrusting the swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning. " (52) Bronte's use of imagery in this quote is effective for the prompt because it details one of the many struggles Jane dealt with at Lowood. This chapter accurately describes a period of "tribulation and terror" in Jane's childhood, as she drops her slate in the presence of Brocklehurst and his daughters and is reprimanded in front of all the Lowood girls.

Significant Moment #1 Mr. Brocklehurst dubbing Jane as a liar publicly at Lowood Institution is a direct example of how Jane could not escape her unpleasant past at Gateshead, and how the "terrors" she lived through would shape her actions and those around her. Mrs. Reed followed her to "new life", just as it would follow her later in the novel. However, this shameful moment had some good aspects as it allowed her to become close to Helen and Miss Temple and find her path at Lowood.

Significant Moment #2 Helens Death "You are sure, then, Helen, that there is such a place as heaven; and that our souls can get to it when we die? "

Significant Moment #3 Jane realizing that the class indifference contributes to Mr. Rochester and Jane’s inability to have a romantic relationship “"He is not to them what he is to me, " I thought: "he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine; —I am sure he is, —I feel akin to him, —I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him. […] I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered: —and yet, while I breathe and think I must love him” (164). Connected back to Gateshead Class Distinction Felt inferior to her Aunt’s family

Jane Gaining an Inheritance Jane gaining an inheritance was a major moment of the falling action of the book. 1. Jane was now a wealthy woman, meaning she had power in the Victorian Society 2. Jane even split this inheritance, showing that she has put her newfound family first in her life 3. Jane now had the confidence to go back to the man she loved “Twenty thousand pounds shared equally, would be five thousand each— enough and to spare: justice would be done…” (page 368). Dead Uncle $ Long Lost Brother Who wants to marry me Go back to the old blind Crip

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