Jane Eyre Dialectical Journal
Summer Reading Assignment: Dialectical Journal
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
|NOTE TAKING (QUOTES) |Pg. No. |NOTE MAKING (RESPONSES) |
|“This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it has |10 |The red room is significant to Jane, because it admonishes her|
|silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn | |uncle’s passing. |
|entered.” | |Using syntax Brontë has developed a gothic/dark presence, not |
| | |only because a 10 year old resides in the room, but the |
| | |diction she uses to set the mood does the scene justice. The |
| | |diction used that depicts the room as being “chill” rather |
| | |than the usual phrasing “cold,” and the room was “silent” with|
| | |a burning fire gives off a rather dark-suspenseful, yet page |
| | |turning beginning. The fire refers to warmth, safety, and |
| | |security. This description nonetheless provides readers with |
| | |recognizable evidence of the imprisonment Jane was in. Mrs. |
| | |Reed placed her in a seldom visited room. It was as if her |
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
|NOTE TAKING (QUOTES) |Pg. No. |NOTE MAKING (RESPONSES) |
|“This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it has |10 |The red room is significant to Jane, because it admonishes her|
|silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchens; solemn | |uncle’s passing. |
|entered.” | |Using syntax Brontë has developed a gothic/dark presence, not |
| | |only because a 10 year old resides in the room, but the |
| | |diction she uses to set the mood does the scene justice. The |
| | |diction used that depicts the room as being “chill” rather |
| | |than the usual phrasing “cold,” and the room was “silent” with|
| | |a burning fire gives off a rather dark-suspenseful, yet page |
| | |turning beginning. The fire refers to warmth, safety, and |
| | |security. This description nonetheless provides readers with |
| | |recognizable evidence of the imprisonment Jane was in. Mrs. |
| | |Reed placed her in a seldom visited room. It was as if her |
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