The tension reaches its climax when Jane screams in the room after seeing Mr. Reeds ghost haloed face and everyone rushes there.

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The red-room was a spare chamber, was a 'very seldom' place where Mr. Reed died nine years ago. The red room shows a number of gothic elements in order to make a horroristic image in our heads about the place she is locked into. The place was 'solemn because it was known to be so seldom entered'. The room 'was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchens'. In the room her imaginary makes her see some elements of superstition like a 'tiny phantom' who is a 'half fairy' and 'half imp' the climax in the room is Mr. Reed's ghost who scares everything out of Jane 'haloed face' and makes her run out of the room. There are many background stories about the red-room but the most important is that Mr. Reed died there nine years ago 'it was in this chapter he breathed the last'. The tension increases word by word especially when the little phantom is there we know that something is going to happen.
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In the family every child is respected even though they are selfish, headstrong, have spoiled tempers and are insolent, to mention a few just things. The other children who are led by their own selfish desires were respected but Jane 'could never please' after she tries 'to win any one's favour' is disagreed and pushed away. She is with the Reed family because Mr. Reed promised to take care of her but after his death she became the 'scapegoat of the nursery'. After the reasons have been revealed I think that she is still treated unfairly because Mr. ...

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