Jane Eyre- AIMs

AIM #1 pg 1-14

A- “Where the dickens is she”” he continued. “Lizzy! Georgy! (Calling to his sisters) Jane is not here: tell mama she is run out in to the rain- bad animal.
-When talking about John the author uses words such as bullied, punished, feared, bewildered, terror, strike, abuse, disgusting, ugly

I-He calls her a bad animal, which starts to give character to the boy. It lets the reader see what kind of person he is and how he feels towards Jane.
- The author’s diction helps to characterize John

AIM # 2 pg 15-28

A-Rebel slave, desperation, mad cat, servant, and wickedness were all words the author used when talking about Jane in the beginning of chapter 2.
-“You out not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed, because Missis kindly allows you to be brought up with them. They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them”
-Use of imagery when describing the room
-“a terrible red glare, with thick black bars”
-“I felt physically weak and broken down”

I-The diction used when talking about Jane lets the reader know that she is being treated like a slave in the house that she’s staying at. It’s important to know this because that is what makes her an outcast from the family.
-Miss Abbot says that Jane shouldn’t think of herself as an equal. This backs up Jane’s feelings of being a slave at the house.
-When describing the room the author describes it using dark words and describes it in a cold way. Imagery is used to describe just how bad the room is and the word choice of the author gives the room a sad, gloomy, lonely feeling.
- Jane feels like she is in a prison so the author describes what she sees as she first wakes up in a way that a jail cell would appear.
-by chapter three Jane has already transitioned a little by going from a girl who would not break and refused to conform to the way the family wanted her to admitting that she had broken down.

AIM # 3 pgs. 28-42

A-“..A blubbering tone commence the tale of how “that nasty Jane Eyre” had flown at him like a mad cat..”
-“Scarcely voluntarily”
“cold composed grey eye”
“- a black pillar!- such, at least, appeared to me, at first sight, the straight narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on the rug: the grim face at the top was like a carved mask, placed above the shaft by way of capitol” –metaphor
-“wicked heart, heart of stone”
-“freedom, triumph, unhoped-for liberty”
-“winner of the field”

I-Again the author use’s mad cat to describe Jane. The words blubbering tone are used to imply that John is lying and telling a false tale as usual
-Scarcely voluntarily is interesting because she had no control over her words at this point and that’s important because she had gotten to a point where she was uncontrollable and she had broken.
-Cold composed grey eye are used when describing the look of Mrs. Reed. This allows the reader to imagine the evil look of the woman.
-She is describing the man that has come to talk to Jane and the author uses a metaphor, which has been common throughout the novel. “Like a carved mask” must mean that his face was a very defined bone structure, yet a mask is generally thought of as a something scary and false.
-Everyone thinks that Jane is this horrible person, even by first impression. By comparing her heart to stone, it’s almost as if her heart is dead.
-After finally speaking up Jane is feeling free even though she is not. She had not expected to say anything and when she did it gave her triumph and liberty.
-By saying “winner of the field,” she is comparing her argument and lifestyle to a war. She felt that she had won her first victory.

AIM # 4 pgs 43-57

A- I find that fire/fireplace and the color red are mentioned a lot throughout the book so far. It reoccurs again in chapter 5.
-Change in scenery
-“Wind rave in furious gusts, and the rain fall in torrents”
I-Maybe the warmth and the light of the fireplace and the fire give her comfort. The red I’m not so sure about. I think of evil, blood, and death.
-When she leaves the house the scenery turns into being dark, misty, and sad.
-The words being used such as rave, furious gusts, and torrents make it sound like a very strong surrounding. It’s a definite change from before and gives off again a sad tone

AIM # 5 pgs 58-72

A-“with an accompaniment of secret tears”
-“Madam, allow me an instant.- you are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-dying.”
-“These words fell like the knell of doom”
-“The kind whisper when to my heart like a dagger”

I-Her tears are kept a secret much like when she was at her aunts house.
-Why would he want to bring up the girls into almost like a failing way of life. Instead of giving them hope for success he is setting them up for failure and a hard life.
-The author uses a metaphor comparing words to a knell of doom, which shows just how terrible it is.
-The whisper fell to her heart like a dagger (another metaphor) because the words were basically nothing to her. They recognized that it was an accident yet they punished her anyway.

AIM # 6 73-87

A-Jane- criminal- charged with falsehood
-“Made up of equal parts of whalebone and iron”
-“Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith”
-“Often and fully, free, unwatched, and almost alone; for this unwonted liberty..”

I-Jane is being compared to a criminal because she is being treated like one that is in a jail or at least being treated like someone who did something truly wrong.
-Implying that she, nor Mr. Brocklehurst were humanlike
-Her attitude has changed drastically and she is so much happier
-She’s looking at life outside which has also undergone a transformation and she feels free

AIM # 7 88-102

A-“I sat up in bed by way of arousing this said braid: it was a chilly night; I covered my shoulders with a shawl, and then I proceeded to think again with all my might.”
-”.. A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances..”
-Change in the narration

I-I’m not really sure why but it rhymes here
-It uses the word new emphasizing that she just wants to start over new
-She starts talking directly to the reader after she meets with Bessie

AIM # 8 103- 117

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