Chapters 1-3: Leader Mehul
Hello classmates! It’s Mehul, and I am both honored and excited to kick off our discussions for Jane Eyre. I hope y’all had a relaxing weekend and are hyped to start analyzing the deeper and darker meanings within. At the beginning of the book, we are introduced to very brutal, uncomfortable, and cold imagery of nature. For reference, I am talking about Jane’s descriptions of the cold winter (9), the rainy weather outside the red room (10), and the illustrations within Bewick’s History of British Birds (10-11). What do these descriptions suggest about the upcoming tone of the novel? What do these descriptions foreshadow? Jane draws a connection between the “the half comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains” and books giving “significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray” (11). Does this paragraph suggest anything about the power of literature? Are books a guiding tool for Jane? (12) John Reed depicted as “large and stout,” “din...