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Jane Eyre: Chapter 1 Summary & Analysis. Jane Eyre: Chapter 1. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in , which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. On a dreary afternoon in Gateshead Hall, the ten-year-old Jane Eyre, who has been forbidden by her Aunt from playing with her three cousins, finds a curtained window seat ...
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They lock Jane alone in the red-room. Jane catches sight of...
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Jane Eyre Full Book Summary. Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed, her cruel, wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives, telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day, as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed, Jane’s aunt imprisons Jane in the ...
- Charlotte Brontë
- 1847
Analysis: Chapters 1–4. In the early chapters, Brontë establishes the young Jane’s character through her confrontations with John and Mrs. Reed, in which Jane’s good-hearted but strong-willed determination and integrity become apparent. These chapters also establish the novel’s mood. Beginning with Jane’s experience in the red-room ...
Summary. It is a cold, wet November afternoon when the novel opens at Gateshead, the home of Jane Eyre's relatives, the Reeds. Jane and the Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana sit in the drawing room. Jane's aunt is angry with her, purposely excluding her from the rest of the family, so Jane sits alone in a window seat, reading Bewick's ...
Summary. The story opens on a rainy November day at Gateshead Hall. Jane Eyre, age 10, is banished from the company of the three Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, who are gathered happily around their mother in the drawing room. Jane settles down in a window seat to enjoy making up stories about the pictures in a nature book.
Jane has not been allowed to sit with her aunt and cousins after dinner - she is reading Berwick's History of British Birds behind the curtain when John discovers her.. Master John mistreats her, she is injured when she gets into a fight with him, Aunt Jane is called and Jane is sent to the red room.
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Summary. Jane flies at Master John. Jane Eyre has not been allowed to sit with her Aunt Reed and cousins after dinner and is therefore reading Bewick’s History of British Birds on her own when she is interrupted by her cousin, John. He picks on her and when he throws a book at her she hits her head on the door.
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