If Helen Burns seems " too good to be true" to you, how does that reflect on either the narrarator's perception or the author's development of characters? Are there other characters in the first 8 chapters that seem too "flat" to you? What expectations do you have of the balance of the novel, given the characters you've met so far?
Helen Burns is "too good to be true". She is very strong in her religion and her beliefs on what is wrong and right, and is meek and modest in every decision or choice she makes.Even her thoughts seem to make her the sweetest and most perfect being, which is " too good to be true". This reflects on the narrarotor's perception on characters by showing her opinion on each one. By this i mean that the narrarator can describe a person to be " too good to be true" like Helen Burns, or really mean and terrible like Mrs. Reed or the teacher at the Girl's school. Based on how she feels on the character she'd met, she can really make that person's characteristics "juicy" or "sweet". The narrarator's perception on the characters is that she describes then based on how she likes them.
Very true. All the character traits are based on the narrators experience with him or her. The story also based on Jane's choices she makes, whether they are good or bad, or maybe if she has a good reason in doing so.
ReplyDeletei believe that Jane, the narrarator, will continue to speak and describe all the characters in the rest of the book in this same way. Each character will be described or "fudged" based on Jane's feelings/emotions toward them. This is an easy assumption to make based on the evidence on what I had already read in the previous chapters. I can expect to find many characters' traits to be differennt and very specific because Jane really expresses her relationship witht that person.
ReplyDeleteThe narrator in the first few chapters was 10 years old. Doesn't that have a simplifying effect on perceptions? Can a 10-year-old understand complex motivations?
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