Summary
Chapter spans the next eight years. The school is much improved due to the investigation afyter the Typhus outbreak. Jane becomes a teacher, Miss temple leaves. Jane feels that she should move on. Bessie visits Jane. Jane heads off for Thornfield.
Themes
Entrapement. Despite feeling much better at Lowood than Gateshead Jane still feels trapped.
Character
Jane hears of the Reeds from Bessie, they're not doing well, they are immoral.
Jane is much calmer and more mature, she has learnt a lot and it shows.
Response?
Intriugment as to what will happen to Jane next, the first part of the book is over.
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Good, concise comments. I like the way you have linked chapters by referring back to an earlier section.
The idea of entrapment is important. Also,the idea of Jane being a scapegoat is good. Think about how this occurs agian later, perhaps in a different form. Can we extend this to think of Jane as a victim?
Injustice and religion are also worth developing.
Also, what form does Jane's freedom take?
In one of the chapters before this Jane is freed, chapter eight I think. She is freed from the lies about her past by Mr Lloyd, it's more of a psychological freedom, the freedom because she is no longer worried about her past destroying her future, she is finally freed from the Reed's. In chapter 10 Jane needs to be freed from having to live in a suituation that she didn't decide on,even though she might prefer it from the Gateshead she feels that she needs to be in control, she needs to feel that it her choice to be where she is, not somebody elses. Jane's freedom comes from being in control of her present suituation.
Jane is the victim of malicious lies in chapter 7, and they are brought about by Mr Brockelhurst. Later on in the novel you could again consider her a victim because Mr Rochester lies to her, in not telling her about his wife, she doesn't deserve that either. None of that is her fault, directly, although you could say that she was choosing to ignore the strange goings on, hiding from her suspicions, because she wanted to feel that the man she l,oved was trust worthy, you could say that was stupid.
Thanks for your comments. You've made some strong points. The idea that Jane gains freedom from being in control is interesting. So when she's choosing to ignore the strange goings on she's relinquishing control?
I like the way you're really enagaging with the novel.
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