Red Room

I could almost see the markings of a pencil that had been pushed into the texture of the white wall. I stood up, and walked over to see what it said. I passed a lady who had fallen asleep on my right that filled the room with an obnoxious rumble that echoed throughout the room. I neared the spot and could make out the words “Hel…” the last word, looked like someone had drew it if they had been in a hurry to write it before they were taken away. Fear encased my brain as I wandered what actually…

and cousins. As a result she is sent to the Red Room, which is the room that her uncle died in. On the way to the room, Mrs. Reed tells Jane that she is “less than a servant" (16). Being a “servant” is the lowest rank in society, however, being less than one Brontë suggests that Jane has no place in society. Once in the room, Jane describes the interior of the room as being “chill...seldom slept in” (17), showing its apparent coldness, despite the red, fiery color. Jane quickly assesses that "no…

Panic reigned all through the camp. All three men scrambled for their rifles, and began taking aim at the trees. The howls were slow-paced, and mournful. They sent a shiver up Nick’s spine. Alan wasted two bullets by shooting them into the trunk of a large pine tree. “Hey, save your bullets man!” Danny shouted. “Sorry, I’m nervous,” Alan replied. Nick shushed both of them, and listened. The howls still raged on from somewhere beyond the clearing. There were what sounded like thousands…

or, in the case of Jac, just flirt shamelessly. Jaq was a self-proclaimed bachelor. “Gigantic fudge pooping llama alien!” I heard Woody yell from the kitchen. I blinked. Red laughed and rolled her eyes. "That’s my husband, ever the literature teacher.” Someone slinked out of the kitchen and stage whispered to Red, “Red! Woody hurt himself.” “What happened Johnny?” Concern roughened her voice, she rushed into the kitchen. I quietly stepped behind the bar to see if they needed…

unit had to cut down a whole forest of bamboo and we weren’t allowed to leave until the job was done. When I got back to the room, I fell right to sleep. A hard kick on my thigh woke me up. A short, buff man was glaring at me and he yelled, “Get out! This is my space now.” I ignored his unreasonable demand and turned my back towards him. I waited for his response, but the room was quiet again. I thought it was over, but I was wrong. Using one hand, he grabbed my collars, lifted my body off the…

He found Pete in his chair on the back porch with a can of beer in one hand. “I went for a run the other morning.” “You saw the lights?” Storm jumped onto the porch. “Sure did. I ran to the welcome sign outside town and watched them from there.” “That'd be a good place to see them. It’s dark.” Storm looked down at his shoes and coughed. “It got so light I thought I'd made a mistake about the time I left the house. I thought I was looking at the sunrise.” Pete stared at him. “They were that…

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Resurgence and Identity Firstly, red rooms can be described as a collection of short stories that are stitched together with the connection of the narrator. This essay will later explain how the structure of the book is an act of resurgence, however for the time being the book is a collection of short stories. To continue, narrator Naomi is also plagued by the issue of identity and what that means to them which links them with the characters she imagines. In the reader's first glimpse of the…

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…

The red room is a recurring symbol throughout the story, which symbolizes Jane’s freedom. The color of the room also symbolizes her being under other people. The color red is used in the Scarlet Letter and The Handmaid's tale to label women as bad. Jane is originally put in the red room because “John Reed knocked [her] down”. The red room also creates suspense in the story from Mr. Reed’s ghost and internal conflict because she thinks of the room when she is humiliated at Lowood…