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    I heaved the large and surprisingly heavy box of DVDs and CDs into the back of our 1997 4runner. The strong‚ southern sun beat down through the ancient oak tree’s branches above as we finished packing the car. The day had been slow‚ and I could feel a throbbing soreness in my arms from continuously lifting objects into the moving truck earlier that day. I couldn’t‚ and didn’t want to believe that we would soon be leaving the world I had always known. I glanced back at our ranch and the barn that

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    Fiction that depicts trauma incorporates varied responses and survival behaviors within the characterizations of survivors. Writers such as Margaret Atwood and Jane Smiley often depict characters as narrators of their own stories‚ after the fact‚ where they revisit their process of awakening. The environment of social relations and cultural values can be a source of trauma or a force that silences victims out of denial or guilt. It can create veils of illusion‚ attempts to mask or reinterpret behaviors

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    The novels Jane Eyre and Little Women are strikingly similar in many ways‚ and the characters Jane Eyre and Jo March are almost mirrors of each other. There are many similarities between Jane and Jo‚ and also some differences‚ as well. From childhood‚ although they find themselves in completely different situations‚ both girls experience many of the same trials in their younger years. Jane is an orphan who has no family to call her own‚ and lives with an aunt and cousins who despise and dislike her

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    Jane Eyre as Cinderella  In charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre‚ there are several paradigms that are used throughout the story; one of the most obvious is the Cinderella template. When looking at Jane Eyre through this template‚ the ideas of an orphan child‚ the stepfamily‚ and the fairy godmother seem to be all the characteristics of Cinderella.         Jane Eyre is the orphan child‚ which symbolizes Cinderella. Jane‚ like Cinderella lost both her parents and is dependent on others to care for

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    Jane Eyre The novel Jane Eyre is a Bildungsroman work that illustrates Jane’s coming-of-age. Each location in the story: Gateshead‚ Lowood‚ Thornfield‚ Moor House‚ and Ferndean provide realization of Jane’s growth and development‚ both spiritually and morally. The novel started off in Gateshead. Jane was ten years old and she lived there with her uncle Mr. Reed‚ who soon died‚ and his family. Mrs. Reed had great animosity toward Jane‚ mainly because of Mr. Reed’s favoritism toward Jane. Because

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    Jane Eyre Analysis

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    Journal Prompt #1 In the novel Jane Eyre there are two main male characters that are introduced to us‚ one being Mr. Rochester and the other‚ St. John. Mr. Rochester’s rude and abrupt personality reflects in the way he treats every women in his life and the same goes for St. John’s marble like appearance. As the reader can see Mr. Rochester is utterly the opposite of St. John. He isn’t handsome like he is‚ he doesn’t have a charming appeal to him as St. John does and he is not based on a tight religion

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    JANE EYRE EXAM

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    CRITIQUES OF JANE EYRE (a) Matthew Arnold – “The writer’s mind is full of nothing but hunger‚ rebellion and rage.” 1847 (b) Postmodernist critics would say that Jane Eyre is an expression of the writer Charlotte Bronte. (c) Marxist Approach to the novel – socioeconomical conditions of the time the book was written? (d) Lord David Cecil – “a sophisticated Cinderella story” (e) Gilbert and Gubar -“Women in Victorian novels are often presented with some type of anger or madness‚ which doesn’t accurately

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    Love in Jane Eyre

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    relationship portrayed in Jane Eyre? Jane Eyre is fundamentally a novel about the conflict between love‚ and the artificial context of relationship‚ which introduces impediments and pain to what should be pure and unconstrained. It is the pain of love forbidden by the constraints of societal morality which drives Jane to leave Thornfield Hall‚ and it is love’s attraction which pulls her back there at the end of the novel‚ overcoming this barrier. The love that blossoms between Jane and Rochester is

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    Themes in Jane Eyre

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    the most important aspect of a novel because they are the reason for the author’s writing the novel. Themes found in Jane Eyre include the supernatural‚ visions‚ and dreams that Jane encounters. Firstly‚ the supernatural play an important role throughout the novel. Great coincidences suggest a greater force is at work. An example of this is in the very beginning of the novel; Jane is unfairly convicted of attacking her cousin John Reed. Her punishment is that she be locked in the red-room. The red-room

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    Jane Eyre-Lowood

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    2014 Jane Eyre: Mrs. Reed and Her Children The story Jane Eyre begins with Jane living at Gateshead with her aunt Mrs. Reed and her three cousins John‚ Eliza and Georgina. Jane gives great description of her characters and we get good impressions of all the characters and how Jane feels about them as well. Mrs. Reed is Jane’s aunt‚ by marriage. How Jane describes her she seems as a selfish and cold hearted. Though she promises her late husband‚ Mr. Reed that she would take care of Jane as her

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