Compare chapter 7 from 'Jane Eyre' with the extract from chapter 1 of 'Roll of thunder hear my cry'.

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Compare chapter 7 from ‘Jane Eyre’ with the extract from chapter 1 of ‘Roll of thunder hear my cry’.

‘‘Jane Eyre’’, a novel written by Charlotte Bronte, during the 19th century 1845. The novel is set in the northern part of England at a boarding school called Lowood. The novel is set during the period of time when girls were educated either at home or at a boarding school.

‘‘Roll of thunder hear my cry’’, a novel written by Mildred D Taylor sometime during the 1930’s. The novel is set in Mississippi; America just after the slavery was abolished, and America was also suffering from the ‘great depression’ and white supremacy was believed in.

     ‘‘Jane Eyre’’ is about Jane her self, the novel tells us how ‘Jane Eyre’s parents passed away and Jane’s aunty becomes her guardian and has custody of her.

Jane’s aunty treats her in a very bad manner and later on in the novel Mr Brocklehurst, the headmaster of Lowood comes to take Jane there, and Jane’s aunty falsely tells Mr Brocklehurst that Jane is an evil child and a liar as well.

Mr Brocklehurst keeps this in mind and one day he humiliates Jane in front of all the other girls just because she accidentally broke a slate.

Mr Brocklehurst warns all the other girls Jane is an evil child and a liar, so therefore all of the girls should keep away from her and exclude her from their activities.

However ‘Helen Burns’ a girl who really supports Jane by being her friend, (even though Mr Brocklehurst forbid anyone to be her friend) through this Jane becomes confident and doesn’t feel weak.

   

     ‘‘Roll of thunder hear my cry’’ is a bout a young black girl called Cassie Logan who is going to school on the first day of the school year. Cassie walks to school with her brother ‘Little man’, and Jeremy who is a white boy (who obviously goes to a better school).

The novel progresses when Cassie and little man are in class and Miss Crocker, their teacher hands out some books which are ‘supposedly’ said to be new, as soon as little man receives his copy he asks if he can have another copy because the one he had was dirty. From hearing this Miss Crocker is furious and declines to give him another copy of the book. Moments later little man throws his book on the floor, because he found a chart in the book which stated the book was 11 years old and his class was given it after all the white schools had finished with them. Another reason for why he threw the book on the floor was because he saw that the black people were referred to as ‘nigra’. Mrs Croaker didn’t seem to care about the racism, and tells his mum (who also works at the school) Mrs Logan isn’t surprised about little mans reaction, and glues some paper on the chart so that it cant be seen, Mrs Logan done this fully aware that she could get into trouble for covering the charts up.

     In both novels there are two similar types of characters who are the lead characters ‘Jane Eyre’ and Cassie Logan. Firstly I am going to describe ‘Jane Eyre’s character.

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I think that Jane’s character in ‘Jane Eyre’ is really kind and considerate I have said this because in the novel it says, ‘’many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious morsel of brown bread’’ this suggests to me that she must be a really kind person because she shares her ‘morsel’, which means a piece or a scrap of bread, she also describes the bread as ‘precious’ this is really sad because it shows how much she needed the bread, but Jane shares her bread so that the other girls wouldn’t starve.

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