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Jane Eyre Chapters 36-38

Jan 18, 2007 09:24

Part of my 'yadda yadda yadda' had been St. John discovering Jane's true identity, helping her to get her inheritance, and admitting he and his sisters are her first cousins. Consequently Jane is able to return to Thornfield in a much more dignified manner....

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embers_log January 18 2007, 17:44:39 UTC

Thank you! Well Xander only lost an eye, Mr. Rochester lost one hand, one eye, and was blind in the other eye for a good 2-3 years (then he regained partial vision in that remaining eye). Bronte decided, like Joss, that there should be a price for bad behavior! LOL

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embers_log January 18 2007, 20:15:40 UTC

LOL
This is always such an interesting thing to get into:
One can look at God as the cosmic manipulator treating us all as shadow puppets....
But Terry Pratchett prefers to look at God as the character created by our writing and beliefs. In the Discworld, what you really believe strongly in becomes tangible and real, but if you lose belief then the god (or tooth fairy, whatever) becomes invisible and disappears. The Boggy man has power over children because their belief makes him real.

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callmeserenity January 18 2007, 18:58:28 UTC

YAY! A happy ending!

Doesn't it say at the end of the book that when Jane put his firstborn son into his arms, he was able to see the colour of baby's eyes or something lovely like that?

embers_log January 18 2007, 20:07:18 UTC

the first time he says he can see something is when he asks Jane if she is wearing a blue dress, and then later they mention he can see his son when he is put in his arms....
but I felt that that was all epologue... JMPO of course, but the partial sight in one eye was pretty anti-climatic after Jane returns to marry him!

callmeserenity January 18 2007, 20:34:56 UTC

Oh, it's all little icing rosettes on the cake for me.

I couldn't find my lovely old copy of JE the other day. It's a small, bound book with that marble paper that was so popular in the early 1900's. The book's gotta be about 70 or 80 years old. I ADORE it. I wish I knew where it was.

embers_log January 18 2007, 20:46:56 UTC

I have a couple of beautifully bound small copies of Jane Austen books which are quite old (I'll often look for the older books in used book stores because sometimes it is possible to find something that is really lovely and a pleasure to hold, which is also a book I love).
I'll admit that I took Jane Eyre out of the library, I don't think it is a book that I need to reread often.

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liluv January 18 2007, 19:15:05 UTC

That´s lovely! I love the piece of dialogue too.

Thank you for sharing all this!

embers_log January 18 2007, 20:10:50 UTC

Yeah, I hadn't even remembered that exchange...but it fit so perfectly because when I was showing one of their early conversations I had used the 'do you think me handsome?'
'No.' exchange....

I like having that symetry, particularly since they are all direct quotes from the book. In fact I never had to make up any of my own lines for my speach bubbles, I stuck to Bronte's own dialog (which makes me happy, I had a POV in my presentation of the book, but I didn't want to alter the book...).