Essential Question #10

Original Passage: 'I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed......' (34-35)

Re-write: 'Jane is not deceitful: if she were, she should say I loved you; but she declared she did not love Mrs. Reed: She dislikes Mrs. Reed the worst of anybody in the world except John Reed; and this book about the liar, Mrs. Reed may give it to her girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not Jane..........Jane is glad Mrs. Reed is no relation to her. She will never call Mrs. Reed aunt again as long as she lives. Jane will never come to see Mrs. Reed when she is grown up; and if any one asks her how she liked Mrs. Reed, and how Mrs. Reed treated her, she will say the very thought of Mrs. Reed makes her sick, and that Mrs. Reed treated her with miserable cruelty........Mrs. Reed thinks Jane has no feeling, and that she can do without one bit of love or kindness, but she cannot live so: and Mrs. Reed has no pity. Jane shall remember how Mrs. Reed thrusted her back - roughly and violently thrusted her back -into the red-room, and locker her up there, to her dying day, though she was in agony; though she cried out, while suffocating with distress, 'Have mercy! Have mercy, aunt Reed! And that punishment Mrs. Reed made Jane suffer because Mrs. Reed's wicked boy struck her- knocked her down for nothing Jane will tell anybody who asks her questions, this exact tale. People think Mrs. Reed is a good woman, but she is bad, hard-hearted. Mrs. Reed is deceitful'.

There is recognition of Jane's need for love in this passage. Jane is enraged by her aunt's treatment, but her outburst towards her aunt is unconvincing because of the use of the third person. This passage in the novel is where Jane really expresses her emotions and usage of the third person makes it difficult for the reader to relate or feel how Jane feels. I do not think this passage is biased when used in the third person because in the first person there is still a sense that the reader will be swayed towards Jane's emotions.