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Summary: PERFECT
Review: OH GOSH! This is the best! I'm thirteen, and I had just recently finnished Wuthering Heights when I decided to pick this up. I loved it so much! It's a really intense, frightening, startling, & romantic story, one that I think everyone should know about! So anyways, Jane starts out as a little girl of ten, and lives an unhappy life with her dreadful aunt. She is sent away to Lowood, a school of which she attends for eight more years. After two years of teaching there, she decides she needs a change. Jane is accepted to be a governess at Thornfield Hall, and then she meets Mr. Rochester! The good part starts! The two form a strong friendship, and go through the terrors of Thornfield's mystery villian together. Then, they fall in love. But, a secret that surrounds Rochester seperates Jane from him, and then she leaves. She finds long-lost family, and is proposed an offer of marraige by St. John, who wanted her to be a missionary with him. Well, does Jane accept? Or return to her beloved Mr. Rochester? Find out for yourself, and read this fantastic novel!
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Summary: more than a love story
Review: Jane Eyre is more than a love story; it demonstrates a noble way of life. Jane herself is an amazing character because she has an independence that allows her to move on and take responsibility for her own happiness no matter what happens to her. I first read this as a teenager and still think of Jane as the ultimate role model.
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Summary: Jane Eyre
Review: "To prolong doubt was to prolong hope." - Jane Eyre
How true! This book displays an almost unusual scenario. An orphan thrown into a tumultuous life and endures to find a man above her social ranking to love. What is more interesting that neither contain perfect beauty in the eyes of a passing stranger. Jane Eyre is the perfect example of love emitting from internal thoughts and experiences rather than exterior imagery. One would think the story to be a simple one, but it is so much more than the ordinary love story! Yes, Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, the wealthy employer, do fall in love. However, it is the dramatic turn in the story that touches the reader most. What does happen in the end to these oh-so-real characters? At times, it seems very unpredictable. The story is worth the time of reading the book. It is unlike any other!
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Summary: Jane Eyre
Review: "To prolong doubt was to prolong hope." - Jane Eyre
How true! This book displays an almost unusual scenario. An orphan thrown into a tumultuous life and endures to find a man above her social ranking to love. What is more interesting that neither contain perfect beauty in the eyes of a passing stranger. Jane Eyre is the perfect example of love emitting from internal thoughts and experiences rather than exterior imagery. One would think the story to be a simple one, but it is so much more than the ordinary love story! Yes, Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, the wealthy employer, do fall in love. However, it is the dramatic turn in the story that touches the reader most. What does happen in the end to these oh-so-real characters? At times, it seems very unpredictable. The story is worth the time of reading the book. It is unlike any other!
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Summary: Classic!
Review: This is a classic love story that you can't go wrong with.
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Summary: How on earth can anyone find Jane Eyre boring??
Review: I'm sorry and rather shocked that our kids apparently find this marvelous novel a drag. I'm 53, and I've read it about once a year since I was 12. . .never once as a school assignment, much less a punishment. I've read for pleasure all my life. . .voluminously, addictively. . . and Jane Eyre is my alltime, number-one favorite novel. Dull?!? Good grief, silly girls, it's the first fullblooded feminist novel in English, and still the very best! It has a bright, strong, creative, misunderstood and abused kid heroine who nearly dies of her maltreatment, but survives, thrives, ignores her era's view of women as brainless porcelain dolls, experiences passionate love on her own terms rather than his, refuses to give up her enormous integrity for a false heaven, lives homeless and nearly dies of it rather than become anyone's plaything, fends off patriarchal religion with rare spirit and honesty, and finally. . .well, I'll let you read the absolutely splendid ending for yourselves, if you haven't been rendered incapable of understanding it by today's
alleged educational system. Suffice it to say that it was sufficiently radical in its day to get the author a lot of hate mail. . .to which she replied with a spirit that would've made Jane proud.
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Summary: Jane Eyre
Review: As a young child Jane Eyre is stuck in her aunt's house. People think of her as a wicked child for she doesn't appreciate discipline and speaks her own mind. Jane's dignity is stricken away from herself when her cousin John causes her to be cast into the haunted red room, for he accused her of using "his" books and made her lose her temper.
During her stay in the red room Jane sees the ghost of her uncle, she faints and attention of the house is drawn upon her. This attention displeases her aunt and she sends her to the Lowood Academy for girls. There she meets a very important person in her life. Helen Burns is a girl very like herself, just older and more experienced. They click immediately and form a valuable friendship.
As Jane grows up she remains at Lowood until she decided that she had had enough of teaching younger girls. She placed an ad in a paper for a job which is answered by Mr. Rochester. There she takes care of a French girl and falls head over heels on Mr. Rochester.
This book hasn't been of any significance in my life. The first pages were dull and any excitement was sucked out of the pages. The overall quality of the writing was absolutely superb but the author didn't have enough life in the book. I only recommend this book to people who have a lot of spare time on their hands, or wish to give it to their children to read as punishment.
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Summary: A timeless Classic in the English Canon
Review: Few people probably need an introduction to this novel, given its popular appeal and long circulation. But some words are needed to explain its importance.At a simple level, the novel is the archetypal 'soap opera'; indeed, one can see virtually every plot found in 'Days of Our Lives' or something similar flowing through this work. But Charlotte Bronte's genius makes this wonderful work so much better than a mere one dimensional soap opera. The protagonist displays a keen intellect, a penetrating psychological understanding of those around her, and amazing powers of description. Whether it is the depressing institution of Lowood, or the passing away of Jane Eyre's childhood friend before her eyes, the scenery, the atmosphere, the emotional power, and the raw beauty of the language shine through. Bronte also makes use of the 'Gothic' element in her novel, particularly in the mysterious, mad wife of Edward Rochester, 'Bertha Mason', a sinister figure who is mad and tries to kill Rochester at every opportunity. The atmosphere in the novel is dark, spooky, and has a strong hint of the supernatural; Eyre's descriptions of the Moon often come into this. The characters themselves (apart from the caricature of Bertha Mason) are also psychologically and morally complex. Eyre pursues her career as a governess and eventually Rochester himself often using dubious means, and Rochester himself is far from a heroic figure. Who is good, or evil? Even the end offers no resolution of this (though Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea suggests Rochester is the nasty one). Although Gothic romances are not my favorite literary genre, this book is worth recommending simply for the sheer genius of the author. Charlotte Bronte, one of the finest novelists in the 19th century realist tradition,
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Summary: Original, but boring.
Review: Do you like drama, excitement, action, and adventure? If so, do not read this book! Jane Eyre is a little English girl who is forced to live with her relatives that hate her. At the age of eight, she is forced to move to an orphan school where she has no friends and is continually abused. The book slowly drags through her life at school until she graduates. After spending eight years at school she becomes a governess for a little French brat out in the country. While living at the manor and tutoring the girl, Jane falls in love with the master of the manor. Mr. Rochester is an older man who has traveled all over the world searching for happiness. The rest of the book spends time explaining the controversy between their personalities and how they deal with each other's love. I give this book points for originality, but it needs a more gripping storyline. Only read this book if you need more reading material.
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Summary: Jane Eyre - just trying to find love
Review: First of all, I would just like to say that Jane Eyre is most likely a good book for all those bookworms out there. I am postive that you will not be disappointed with this book if you like classical and dramatic novels. Yes, the novel may seem to be a little long, but it keeps you interested and guessing to the very end. Don't get me wrong, it is not some book that is a mystery. Although, the end is very unpredictable and I had no idea which path Jane Eyre was going to take.
When I opened the first few pages of this book, I must admit that I was questioning whether or not this was going to be
a dull and drab story. It seemed as though this might be a challenging book to be able to finish. Although, after some questioning, the plot took a turn for the better. The story really started to pick up as I began to enter the life of the orphan, Jane Eyre. The uninteresting beginning was well worth reading because the story was really good.
This story begins with Jane Eyre living with her mean Aunt Reed and cruel cousins. She goes through awful torments like being locked up in a dark room all night. The beginning of the story kind of reminded me of the enchanting story of Cinderella. Jane is then sent off to school all alone in the world to become a well-educated lady. She thinks she begins to find happiness there, but some awful things happened. She then goes to Thornfield Hall to try to be a teacher. She actually ends up falling in love with her master, Mr. Rochester. Jane once again begins to feel that everything is going well and that she actually might have found true happiness. Jane and Mr. Rochester are then about to be married when an awful secret is revealed about Mr. Rochester. Jane then has to figure out whether to stay with her one and only true love or just move on to a different life and forget that all of this happened. Jane then does take a small journey away from Thornfield to find out where to go from there.
I found that this book contained mystery, drama, romance, and
everything else a person could ask for in a book. This book is the type of book that you would want to take and curl up in bed and just keeping reading it to the very end. There was great detail about the life that Jane Eyre and all the feeling she felt were revealed to the reader. I seemed to really be part of the story and sometimes forgot where I was. There were also some amazing twists in the story that kept me guessing about who did that or why is that women so suspicious. There was also many characters that kept the story alive and interesting. Although, once and awhile it did seem as though the story was confusing. Things were being said and I was not quite sure who was saying them and places I was not quite sure what was going on. Although, with some of this negativism, everything else made up for it. All and all, it was a really good book. For me, it seems to reflect back on today's life. All Jane was doing was trying to find acceptence, love, and happiness. It seems at this day an age, that all people are trying to do is find true love and someone to be there. For this reason, I think that many of you would really love this book and read it. The novel is well worth the reading. I am sure that once you began the story that you will just want to keep reading it to find out if Jane really does find what she is looking for and if she finds true happiness. Now it is you turn to go to your library and check out this great classical novel that you are just going to love.
The grade I would give this book would be about a low grade A because sometimes it was confusing. Highly recommended for people who like drama and romance.
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