growing up Flashcards
Big idea chapter 1
Jane’s description of her typical day in the household reveals her isolated position
quotes to support the big idea
Jane’s description of her typical day in the household reveals her isolated position
“wicked and cruel boy! I said You are like a murderer - you are like a slave driver - you are like the Roman emperor”
By fighting back when John and his mother torment her, Jane refuses the passivity that was expected for a woman in her class position
big idea 2 chapter 1
Books provide Jan with an escape from her unhappy domestic situation.
quotes to support the idea
Books provide Jan with an escape from her unhappy domestic situation.
“Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings yet ever profoundly interesting”
“Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Artic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space, the reservoir of frost and snow”
“[…] fed our eager attention with passages of love and adventure taken from old fairy tales and other ballads”
They feed Jane’s imagination effecting her a vast world beyond the claustrophobia of Gateshead. The repeating motifs of cold and frost suggests how Jane is isolated and how her loneliness manifests into her imagination giving her comfort. Alternatively, they fill her with visions of how rich and vast life could be, rather than how stagnant it actually is. It establishes how Jane is not a complacent little girl but in facts she craves love and adventure
