The Reed Family In Jane Eyre

It is Conspicuous that the beginning of every story is what will get judged by the reader to determine if the reader will either accept or reject the book. Charlotte Bronte is the author of Jane Eyre. In the first chapter of this book, the reader is introduced to Jane. Jane is a 10-year-old girl and is also the main character who is living with the Reed family. The Reed family consists of 4. To start with, there is Mrs. Reed, she is a blind and deaf mother of 3 children. Then, there is Eliza and Georgian who are the daughters and John who is the son of Mrs. Reed. The Reed family is not very fair with Jane. They do not care for her well being and make her feel miserable in the Reed family home. John is the worst of them all. John is a big 14-year-old who constantly abuses Jane physical and verbally. Jane is so use to his abuse that she was constantly looking over her shoulder for physical abuse and once struck by him she would just take it and say nothing in return as John would yell at her. Although, no kid just learns to hate someone out of nowhere especially not towards someone. The next worse one on the list is Mrs. Reed. Mrs. Reed tells her children that Jane is just a dependent therefore establishing a boundary between the Reeds and Jane, making Jane the lesser in this family. Even though not much has been revealed about …show more content…
Weilands approach was to make a personal connection with the protagonist whereas, Kardos believes that when developing a story, one should base it off a perspective in which the character has the most at stake. Bronte seemed to know what she was doing when she made Jane as the protagonist. Although, maybe it would have been interesting to see it from the perspective of Mrs. Reed, but Jane is a better fit. She is the one who was the most to lose since Mrs. Reed has made sure to turn everyone in that household against Jane even the nurses and the