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Volume 1: Chapters 1-5
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Jan 22, 2016 12:20PM
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wow that a wild question for me yes I think so
I detest Mrs Reed. I can't even imagine anyone being so cruel to a young child. And re: Christianity, I consider myself to be a Christian and was sickened by Mr. Brocklehurst and his holier than thou attitude. A very cold man using religion as a way to control those weaker than him and to feel superior.
This first chapters reminded me a bit of The Secret Garden with Jane and Bessie. I don't know yet if we're going to see more on Bessie, but if not, it is a character I will miss well. It is an old kind of character with an old kind of job, but a personality of wanting to please everyone for different reasons (keeping her job, being a good person) that we can be easily related to.When it comes to religion, there is an intervention that is the kind of religion thought that makes me sick: "How can you keep in good health? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of five days old only a day or two since -a good little child, whose soul is now in heaven. It is to be feared the same could not be said of you, were you to be called hence." It is important to say that I am not a religious person, but my family has always been and there are many things I have always questioned myself. In this case of Jane Eyre, I don't understand what kind of Christian is this character. Even if Jane was such a bad person as to deserve hell, this religion has forgiveness as one of its main points. Mr. Brocklehurst doesn't have the intention of forgiving Jane for any potential bad thing to his eyes she could have done.
