The Red Room: A Comparison Between Jane And Cinderella

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One day I went into

One day I went into Walmart by my house at night to pick up some groceries for my family who just came into town. There was hardly anyone there because it’s kind of late. After I gather all of my things I needed I met back up with my family in the front. We stood in the check out. Suddenly, while we were waiting, a tall dark skinned man came and stood behind us and he tapped me and said “I have something to tell you” and I turned towards him and gave him a confused look and replied “ What is it? “ and he said “ I died and came back to life today” and he began to tell his story , I was in a car accident and my car flipped over three times and then that’s when I landed in a ditch and that’s where I died for a second until
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When you are locked in some way, your mind wonders and it wonders about things you could be doing if you weren’t locked in. It feels like a trap. I feel that Jane and Cinderella both felt like they needed to overcome their struggles. They both wanted to find freedom and happiness. And that was the significance of the red room. The red room not only appeared once, but multiple times in the story. She makes a connection between her current situation and the first time of being teased.
There were three male figures in her life and I felt like they were keeping her trapped in like the Red Room and not letting her express herself. All of her life she needed to find her independence and freedom, she tried when she got away from her aunt. But when she came to the school it was like the same thing, but not as bad.
When you have a mother figure that’s not your mother it can be either good or bad. For Jane Eyre it was very bad. I feel when someone inherits money they can change. I wonder was her aunt always like that even before Jane’s uncle died. I feel like the mother figure in Jane’s life was the servant Bessie. Jane even writes in the story, “She had stood by me in the stead of a mother, governess, and latterly,

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