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The contrast at the very beginning of chapter three is quite amazing; we're taken from a fantasy-like world and promptly submerged in a very real, very harsh place. "Or stray in the marshes, by false lights beguiled" this is exactly what happens much later; that whole "ballad" could be the TL:DR version of 'Jane Eyre'. This chapter is when the story starts trundling along. And I can't help but adore the apothecary.

The second chapter gives us insight into how life was like at Gateshead for Jane. She is isolated (as implied with the brilliant bird imagery in chapter one), lonely and abhorred. But for what? And how can Jane; a ten year old comprehend why? The writing in this chapter highlights the difference between now and when it was written; the words are the same, but they way they're used is so wonderfully out of place.

Pulled out of boarding school because there a pig

I've been sucked in; gonna read the book the whole way through. What about John Reed, how gross is he; dingy, unwholesome, bilious, bleared. The boy is disgusting. The parallels with Harry Potter are obvious; both parents died, was left on the hands on aunt (aunt & uncle) who grudgingly agreed to raise them as their own. They don't, and there's an older cousin who abuses them and gets away with it. Who h