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Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

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Jessica said: " I have loved this book for a long time. Yes, I've read it before and i liked reading it again. Unlike some classic literature books it actually has a fast moving plot and storyline. My favorite part is when Jane comes back to see him after a year and I have loved this book for a long time. Yes, I've read it before and i liked reading it again. Unlike some classic literature books it actually has a fast moving plot and storyline. My favorite part is when Jane comes back to see him after a year and he thinks it's not really her in the room that he's imagining it. I love the thought of that "Peter Pan" moment where the person has been thinking about you so much that this could be just another daydream. Ya i will say i like that part because of how cute it is. It's adorably romantic and ya, that's definitely y i like that part haha there's not another reason. My least favorite part is the space in between when she gets taken in by the Riverses and she is proposed to by St. John. It just moves slowly and isn't really that interesting. She is unhappy with her job and situation in life, it's just kind of a transition in the book that didn't really keep my interest. "Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, too absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex." I just love this because it's so radically feminist for the time period. "I shall remember how you thrust me back . . . into the red-room. . . . And that punishment you made me suffer because your wicked boy struck me—knocked me down for nothing. I will tell anybody who asks me questions this exact tale. ’Ere I had finished this reply, my soul began to expand, to exult, with the strangest sense of freedom, of triumph, I ever felt. It seemed as if an invisible bond had burst, and that I had struggled out into unhoped-for liberty. . . ." this is showing Jane exercising her free will and casting off the last bit of family she has. She is now independent. I would recommend this book but i will say it is mushy and fluffy and warm and fuzzy. It is a "twilight" type of romantic so if you like that type of book then chances are you will love this book. ...more "

Oct 25, 2011 10:09PM · see review