Jane goes into the dining room and hides in the window sill and occupies herself with a book called Bewick's History of British Bird.”The letterpress thereof I cared little for” here we are reminded that Jane is a child and doesn’t care about the writing she is more interested in the pictures she finds the detailed pictures scary and moves on to the other pictures. “Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my undeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet ever profoundly interesting: as interesting as the tales Bessie sometimes narrated on winter evenings, when she chanced to be in good humour” Here we see a good side to Bessie and how she sometimes told stories to Jane. As Jane found something interesting to look at the breakfast-room door opened "Where the dickens is she!" he continued. "Lizzy! Georgy! (Calling to his sisters) Joan is not here: tell mama she is run out into the rain--bad animal!" John Reed came to look for Jane as his mother is calling her. John Reed does not call Jane by her real name instead he calls her Joan this shows us that he does not like Jane and has no respect for her. When he refers to Jane as a bad animal you can really see how much he hates her. Eliza knows where Jane is hiding and tells John “And I came out immediately, for I trembled at the idea of being dragged forth by the said Jack” this quote shows that Jane is scared of John and comes out of her hiding place. "What do you want?" I asked, with awkward diffidence. When Jane says this I am surprised I thought she wouldn’t say anything to him. "Say, What do you want, Master Reed?'" was the answer. "I want you
to come here;" and seating himself in an arm-chair, he intimated by
a gesture that I was to approach and stand before him. We see here that John is controlling Jane and enjoys bossing her around
Charlotte Bronte gives us a clear picture of John Reed “John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen years old; four years older than I, for I was but ten: large and stout for his age, with a dingy and unwholesome skin; thick lineaments in a spacious visage, heavy limbs and large extremities.” “John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me. He bullied and punished me; not two or three times in the week, nor once or twice in the day, but continually” This quote shows us that John Reed is a very moody person he doesn’t really like anybody it also shows that he enjoys bullying Jane all the time. When John hits poor Jane no one seems to say anything or stop him. “The servants did not like to offend
their young master by taking my part against him, and Mrs. Reed was
blind and deaf on the subject: she never saw him strike or heard
him abuse me, though he did both now and then in her very presence,
more frequently, however, behind her back” even the servants do not say anything because they don’t want to lose their jobs. As Jane walked up to John she saw him sticking his tongue out she knows he will strike any time but Jane doesn’t want to think about so she makes a joke of his face in her mind. "That is for your impudence in answering mama awhile since," said he, "and for your sneaking way of getting behind curtains, and for the look you had in your eyes two minutes since, you rat!" John attacks Jane because she had answered his mother before and for hiding in the curtains also for the look she had in her eyes two minutes ago the look was from when she was thinking of John Reeds ugly face.
"You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mama says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen's children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mama's expense. Now, I'll teach you to rummage my bookshelves: for they ARE mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years. Go and stand by the door, out of the way of the mirror and the windows." In this quote we get to know that Jane’s father has left her and how she has to live with these horrible people, also John has told Jane to stand by the door and now he will teach her a lesson. As John Reed said he will be the owner of the property as he is the oldest son. In those days this was a typical thing to do the 1st son got all the property on his name. “I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm: not soon enough,
however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it. The cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its climax; other feelings succeeded” in this quote I feel sorry for Jane because she is a little girl and doesn’t know what will happen to her and all she can do is stand there and face the torment as John throws the book and it cuts her head. I think this last sentence is very important because it shows that she does not feel scared now she is now feeling furious.
At that point Jane explodes "Wicked and cruel boy!" I said. "You are like a murderer--you are like a slave-driver--you are like the Roman emperors!" Jane compares John to the Roman emperors this shows how much she dislikes him and how much anger she kept in her."What! What!" he cried. "Did she say that to me? Did you hear her, Eliza and Georgiana? Won't I tell mama? but first--" in this quote we see how shocked John is at Jane’s response. Charlotte Bronte uses rhetorical questions because it emphasises the fact that John is shocked and even more aggravated than ever Charlotte uses somewhat a ellipses before the but first this gives us the effect that something bad is going to happen to Jane. “I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort” here we see John Reed and Jane fight Jane has been badly hurt and is bleeding. Charlotte Bronte makes us realise that everyone is on John’s side by telling the reader “Aid was near him: Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs. Reed, who was gone upstairs: she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot. We were parted: I heard the words”
"Dear! dear! What a fury to fly at Master John!"
"Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!"
Then Mrs. Reed subjoined -
"Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there." Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. In the last conversation we really feel sorry for Jane because she hadn’t done anything wrong also Mrs Reed knows very well what her sons like but then again even if Mrs Reed wanted to hit Jane she couldn’t so her son was a good excuse. Charlotte Bronte captivates the reader and makes them read on, Bronte makes the reader feel as if they have a relationship with Jane and also the reader will want to know what secret is behind the ‘red room’.
