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Jane Eyre (Signet classics)
I'm almost 13, and my mother and I just finished reading this last night (we were up until midnight...couldn't put it down.) It was a really wonderful book, although there was a slow spot or two. Jane is heroic and good, but not sappy. I loved her witty conversations. You can't say you've read the classics until you've read Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre (Signet classics)
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.
Jane Eyre (Signet classics)
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.
Jane Eyre (Signet classics)
I don't remember when I first read Jane Eyre. I have read it on and off for years now, along with hundreds of other books. When I was younger, I admired everything Jane did; every decision she made was the right one. Jane was the heroine of the story and I didn't question her decisions. But.. after much reflection on the outcomes of her decisions, I have come to the conclusion that she was TOO strong, too determined that she must lead a faultless life. It was almost creepy, how iron willed she was. I think the true victim of the novel was not Jane herself, but the rich and powerful Fairfax Rochester, who was so much in love with her that even Jane hoped her leaving would not drive him to madness and despair.. His plea, "You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer are all nothing to you?" .. but Jane, in her determination to be true to her morals,walked away and left him in a near suicidal state. "Oh, Jane, this is bitter. This is wicked." These words fell from Mr Rochester's lips when he saw that she meant to leave. I tend to agree. It DID seem wicked to leave him on the verge of madness. He ask no more of her, at that time, than to just stay in residence until some alternative plan could be embarked upon. However, she didn't want to be suspetible to the worldy temptations embodied in Mr Rochester...She almost died because of her decision to tear herself away, and what happened to Mr. Rochester will make the reader shudder. But.. Jane's "integrity" and strength remain intact,and supposedly that is the lesson the reader is supposed to carry away. But I love Jane Eyre anyway,love the story, and have a leather bound edition of it on my bookshelf. It's beautifully written and deeply interesting. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes to read.
Jane Eyre (Signet classics)
I read "Jane Eyre", against my wishes, when I was a junior in high school and found it stuffy and dry, much like other books from the Victorian period. However, when I read it again as a sophomore in college my opinion change. I saw "Jane Eyre" as a heroine who fought her way from the bottom of society in order to make something out of herself.What I liked about the title character was that she was smart and even more importantly she was strong-willed. Somehow, Charlotte Bronte created a female heroine who had real character at a time when most women were used solely as ornaments and child-bearing machines.
Jane Eyre (Signet classics)
The protagonist is clear-headed, thoughtful, and independent. Even when she falls in love, she doesn't let that love take over her life. She knows that it's better to lose her love than to lose herself. That doesn't happen that often in "love stories" of the time.Even the "happy ending" of the story isn't completely happy -- it took a great deal of sacrifice and trouble for both Jane and her lover to get there.Most of today's "Gothic" novels are inferior copies at best of this book. Their heroines don't have half the brains or the personality of Jane.