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Summary: Jane Eyre? Pretty good!
Review: I just read Jane Eyre for a 9th grade classic book project. Even though I chose the book, as it was recommended, I found it was a bit slow in some parts, Charlotte Bronte gets so into her descriptions that it bores the reader from time to time. It was a good book all the same.The writing technique amazing. I loved the romance and the happy ending. I recomend it to tennagers and young adults,but a word to the wise keep a French dictionary handy!
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Summary: A Raging River
Review: I am 41 years old and have read this book four times, about once a decade. An absolute must read for anyone who loves serious reading, and sorry, Jane Austen, but Charlotte Bronte rocks the house in ways you never could!
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Summary: Jane Eyre
Review: This book is long... no, very long. Can you believe that the plot begins near chapter 33? I couldn t. Please, don t waste your time.
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Summary: Jane Eyer
Review: This is a book to read again and again I read it in grade 7 and loved it. In the begining Jane Eyer is a little girl. The book is about her growing up and falling in love with Mr. Rochester. Think everything is happy ever after...?? Think again.
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Summary: A beautiful, moving book that has withstood the test of time
Review: I read this book in 7th grade and liked it. Two years later, we read it again in English, and I liked it even more. This book portrays it's main character as a strong, outspoken, smart and independent woman, written in a time when it was unconventional to do so. While the book is over 100 years old, it is not outdated because it's message is something that people can relate to today. Because it is wordy and not exactly fast, easy reading, some people disregard the book as being boring. However, if you give it a chance, you will probably find that it is suspenseful and exciting. There are many surprises. Just when you think that something is going to happen, some strange twist of fate changes the course of the story. It's also mysteroius and even funny. Ultimately the book has a positive message. Jane is an incredibly strong character who shows what it means to be true to yourself. Many people have to read this book, whether they want to or not. Other people choose to read it. Even if you don't want to read it, appreciate the writing style and open your mind to it. You might like it. I do.
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Summary: Darker Side of Nineteenth Century England
Review: Contrary to the MGM film of the 40's, this book does not begin with, "My name is Jane Eyre..." Instead, we get an opening chapter about a little girl who is cruelly treated by an abominable family, and her attempts to stay afloat. The Jane Eyre of the novel is a spirited young woman, who yearns to be able to experience life despite the limitations society has placed upon women. This book is a wonderful read. Bronte's 19th century England is not the neo-classical world of manners and balls that permeate Jane Austin's universe; rather, the world of Jane Eyre one of ragged romanticism that plays out against the harsh elements, and the world seems as primitive indoors as it does outside. Bronte writes in a very lucid, revelatory style, and the first person narrative does a lot to help draw you into this story. Even if you know the secret in the attic, there is so much more about this novel that you may not know about. The biggest surprise about this novel once I read it was that Jane's story does not end with the revelation of Rochester's dark gothic secret (even though this was written several years after Austen's Northanger Abbey, it's fun to read the two books in conjunction). I am surprised that most film and stage versions of this novel rarely include the important last third of the book. But I'll let you discover the developments to Jane's character on your own. The ending is a tear-jerker (but in a great way). This is definitely the book to read on the front porch of a summer cottage, or in front of a fire on a winter night. Mystery, romance, intrigue, religion, and feminism... it's all in here. And it's worth the read.
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Summary: Jane Eyre Great Teen Reading
Review: Jane Eyre is a novel that captures the reader. It is about a young girl who experiences the hardships of everyday life. Living as an orphan she is driven to become successful and fall in love. She becomes a young writer nd often expresses her feelings and thoughts through her writing. As a young teenager I can easily relate to a lot of how she feels. I felt comfort in reading this novel because I am not the only person going through a lot of changes in my life. I recommend this novel to a lot of young readers and especially young teenage girls. Jane Eyre contains a point of view that captivates the reading.
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Summary: Wish I could meet Jane Eyre
Review: Reviewers may say that as an author, Charlotte Bronte does not quite equal the best classical writers, or that her plot is too contrived, or that her dialogue is too stilted. None of these things matters, because in Jane Eyre, Bronte created a character whom I believe has no equal in fiction. Jane Eyre is a survivor in an age much more merciless than today. Condemned and degraded as a little girl by adults she trusted, she never loses her grip on her self-respect. Although she is reviled by her guardians and boarding school authorities, she retains not only her belief in herself but her innate goodness. Instead of returning harsh treatment with bitterness, she develops a character containing equal parts of toughness and kind benevolence. Her integrity is perceived by an employer whose deepest need is to recapture his own integrity, which he believes lost. Jane's guarded response to him forms much of the book's plot. Jane emerges quietly triumphant in a world in which she encountered hostility and love and ignorance and enlightenment, and met it all head on.
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Summary: A Masterpiece that Transends Generations
Review: Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" is a classic rags to riches story, with some twists thrown in. Bronte captures the horrors of Jane's family (I use the term loosely) and the physical, as well as emotional, hardships she had to endure throughout the whole of her childhood and ultimatly her life until the end of the novel. The book is much more readable than the indominably beautiful heroine who only briefly suffers and finds superficial happiness in the one she loves. Jane's love for Mr. Rochester goes deeper than the surface for she does not even glance at the startling deformities of his body, but tries to heal the deformities of his soul when she returns to him. To her credit she succeeds and finds a happiness which few ever experience or imagine.
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Summary: A god book
Review: This is one of the best story's ever written in English Literature. It shows the struggle that woman had to live in the mid 1800's. The book show the strength one woman has in her time of mourning, and her power to let her love for one man conquer over all. I have reminised several times over how the story comes into veiw with woman of today, and have found that it can show woman just how far we have come in a centuy and 1/2. This is a fabulously written story and should be read by every 11'th grade student.
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