Jane Eyre

1. If you were in Jane's (very plain) shoes, would you decide to stay with Rochester or would you leave? Why?

If I were in Jane’s shoes I would have stayed with him. Granted I live in a different time and have very different morals than Jane. I unlike Jane don’t care about what society thinks nor am I as religious as she was.

2. What were your final reactions to the novel? What did you like or not like about it? What worked and didn't work?

I really liked Jane Eyre, it may not be the easiest to read but the prose was beautiful which I really enjoyed. I didn’t like the large areas where the plot didn’t seem to move forward much. But overall I thought it was a great book and a good love story.

3. Should this book be taught in College Literature? Justify your response, and try to look beyond your personal thoughts on the book to the larger goals of the class.

I think Jane Eyre is a good book to teach; however, I think that whenever you teach it there will be a large number of students who don’t read it, a larger percentage than usual. If people do read it though I think it has merit both as a piece of literature and an entry into what we might have to read in college.