N.P.+Journal+1

__Jane Eyre __ Charlotte Bronte I chose this novel because I wanted a book that would keep me interested during the duration of the project. This book intrigued me because it’s not a common scenario for a romantic novel. You don’t normally see an orphan falling in love with her employer, who is her total opposite according to society.

Also, Jane the main character is telling the story. From what she has told us (the readers) so far is that she doesn’t like the way she is living. She would rather hide herself from the world and read.

As the story begins Jane tells us of how they were unable to go for a walk due to the weather. She doesn’t seem to mind because as she continues she tells us that she doesn’t care for long walks, especially on chilly afternoons. She doesn’t like coming back with raw fingers and toes.

From the beginning of the novel I can tell that she is not liked or welcome for that matter where she is living. She is treated like a slave and no one is willing to fight for her so far. She is constantly being abused by the older boy who lives there named John. In Chapter two he hits her and than proceeds to throw a volume (a book) at her head. As she falls her head receives a deep cut and she lashes back at John verbally and as punishment he comes and pulls her hair near the cut. John is only 14 years old for such a young age he is very cruel, foul, and sadistic.

The author held my attention by using imagery, when Charlotte Bronte described the “Red Room” she did so with so detail I felt as if I were in the story. Also, when she ends a chapter she does so with a cliff hanger which keeps you reading because most are big events. 