How Single Events Propel a Child from Innocence into Adulthood
To show how single events or experiences propel a child form innocence
into adulthood, I shall use the following texts, "Jane Eyre" a novel
by Charlotte Bront, "The Flowers" a short story by Alice Walker, "The
Stolen Party" a short story by Liliana Heker, "The Lesson" a poem by
Edward Lucie-Smith and finally "Diana, Her True Story-In Her own
words" an autobiography by Andrew Morton.
Childhood is a muddled time where children are oblivious to what goes
on in the surrounding environment, they think that everything is good
and safe and are just unaware of the reality. Children generally learn
the truth from their actions, parents, and sometimes it is a single
event, which will be remembered from that moment on, to open their
eyes to the real world. I am going to show how this change in a person
occurs in the texts above.
"Jane Eyre" a novel by Charlotte Brontë, the novel is written in third
person narrative, given form Jane's point of view, giving the story a
very honest, personal view on her life. "Jane Eyre" is about a young
girl of 10 years old called Jane; she grows up as an orphan due to the
death of her parents when she was a year old. She was sent to live
with her aunt in Gateshead. She is not accepted into the aunts' family
and she is open to daily cruelty and neglect throughout her childhood.
Near the beginning of the book Jane is sent to the "Red Room" this is
to punish her bad behaviour. The experience of being unfairly treated,
is the first time she realises how unfair people and life can be
towards her, because she is being punished for something her cousin
started, by picking on her. Miss Abbot and Bessie already have a bad
opinion of Jane, and with this bad action she is open to the worst
punishment in her eyes possible, the Red room, and to make Jane more
afraid Miss Abbott says "say your prayers, Miss Eyre, where you are by
yourself, for if you don't repent something bad might be permitted to
come down the chimney and fetch you away", by saying this actually
being in the room has been made worse something more to be afraid of.
Charlotte Brontë's description of the red room is sombre, full of
darkness and mystery, but to Jane a frightening room, but this is most
due to the talk about it previous to being in it. The room is
described with "red" being the main surrounding feature of the room,
The red room is the place that ignites Jane's passion. The red room is one of the novels great paradoxes as it parallels with ice in that it restricts Jane's freedom and imprisons her; yet the experience gives her the courage to stand up to her aunt. The fire that the red room ignites in Jane allows her to jump the 'containment lines'; to break the bonds of her Aunt that are restricting her, and achieve freedom. The red room becomes very symbolic of Jane's fight for freedom. Whenever she suffers from there on, Jane emotionally comes back to the red room, and adds new fuel to the fire, as she reminds herself why she wants to break free of oppression.
Reed had received a letter from a John Eyre of Madeira; saying that he wanted to meet Jane and wanted to adopt her because he didn't have any family himself, he was not married and had no children. As the merciless person she was, she did not want Jane to experience the feeling of hope or contentment. The author's use of Jane being locked in the red room, as a symbol of hell. Jane is being punished for her sins and her boorishness; meanwhile, in the room, Jane becomes hysterical when she thinks she sees her dead uncles ghost, which becomes a traumatic experience for her that leads to her being unconsciousness. The red room symbolizes the death of Mr.Reed and the promise Mrs. Reed vowed to keep to take care of Jane and that she be treated and
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Reed had received a letter from a John Eyre of Madeira; saying that he wanted to meet Jane and wanted to adopt her because he didn't have any family himself, he was not married and had no children. As the merciless person she was, she did not want Jane to experience the feeling of hope or contentment. The author's use of Jane being locked in the red room, as a symbol of hell. Jane is being punished for her sins and her boorishness; meanwhile, in the room, Jane becomes hysterical when she thinks she sees her dead uncles ghost, which becomes a traumatic experience for her that leads to her being unconsciousness. The red room symbolizes the death of Mr.Reed and the promise Mrs. Reed vowed to keep to take care of Jane and that she be treated
... the red room and likewise, saw a reflection of her in Mr. Rochester. In both traumatizing situations, Jane ironically experiences an outer body experience from within her body. In the red room she literally saw herself and fainted because of the sight of herself, but when conversing with Mr. Rochester she saw the hatred she had for Mrs. Reed in his hatred for Bertha. For example, "the paroxysms, when my wife is prompted by her familiar to burn people in their beds at night, to stab them, to bite their flesh from their bones," (306)
We learn that Jane is a young girl who is a victim of emotional and
Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is a coming of age novel that discusses Jane’s challenges as she grows up and continues into adulthood. Jane was deemed as a ‘poor orphan’ by her aunt and her cousins; unfortunately her uncle passed away and made her aunt promise to care for Jane as she would her other children. Mrs. Reed, Jane’s aunt, did not keep her promise to her late husband, instead she treated Jane poorly and allowed her son to do so also. Jane spoke back to her cousin, Master John, when he threw a book at her and injured her. As she was taken to the red-room, for her punishment, she fought back and seemed unrelenting. This seems to be the first time she finds herself, if you will. This new attribute isn’t lost, it actually tends to grow
She got really homesick and missed her mother and her sister. Going to many schools made her
One of the main factors of this was the neglect of her parents. It was not stated directly but the fact that her parents did not know what was g...
that may not be real. Jane is afraid to go into the 'Red Room', when
The three events that mark Jane as an evolving dynamic character are when she is locked in the red room, self reflecting on her time at Gateshead, her friendship with Helen Burns at LoWood, her relationship with Mr. Rochester, and her last moments with a sick Mrs. Reed. Brought up as an orphan by her widowed aunt, Mrs. Reed, Jane is accustomed to her aunts vindictive comments and selfish tendencies. Left out of family gatherings, shoved and hit by her cousin, John Reed, and teased by her other cousins, Georgina and Eliza Reed, the reader almost cringes at the unfairness of it all. But even at the young age of ten, Jane knows the consequences of her actions if she were to speak out against any of them. At one point she wonders why she endures in silence for the pleasure of others. Why she is oppressed. "Always suffering, always browbeaten, always accused, forever condemned" (Bronte, 12). Jane’s life at Gateshead is not far from miserable. Not only is she bullied by her cousins and nagged by her aunt, but help from even Bessie, her nurse and sort of friend, seems out of her reach. In the red room scene Jane is drug by Ms. Ab...
From the time Jane is held in the red-room and Bertha being detained as one of Rochester’s “prisoners” in the attic, Brontë creates a similarity between Jane and Bertha from their furies manifesting deep within themselves as being another token of oppression within a patriarchal society. Both females live within the same circumstances of a restriction-filled male-controlled time; their responses to these circumstances, however, make them adverse counterparts. While Bertha kindles a fiery wrath toward her oppressor, Jane must learn to contend with her anger so that she will ultimately be free to live a life of true equality and love with Rochester. In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë draws distinct similarities between the red-room and
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