Saturday, 15 September 2007

Jane Eyre Reading journal chapter 12

Summary

Jane helps Mr Rochester when he falls off his horse.

Character


Mr Rochester is introduced to the novel, although neither the reader or Jane are aware of it at first, it is only at the end of the chapter that we discover this.

Interesting extracts

'It was an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of monotonous life.'



Narrative voice.

As a reader we don't realise that , Mr Rochester is Mr Rochester, if it was written in third person then we might, and I think that it would be more interesting, it would create dramatice irony. However if the book was written in third person the reader

4 comments:

Donald said...

If it was written in 3rd persson the reader would what...?

Camille said...

the reader would have a completely different view of Jane, A LOT of our understanding of Jane comes from being inside Jane's head.

Camille said...

the reader would have a completely different view of Jane, A LOT of our understanding of Jane comes from being inside Jane's head.

Camille said...

the reader would have a completely different view of Jane, A LOT of our understanding of Jane comes from being inside Jane's head.