Re: Poll: How many of you have actually read "Jane Eyre"?
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PrincessP (---.dhcp.gldl.ca.charter.com)
Date: August 23, 2006 08:14AM
When I was in 3rd grade my older sister was in high school and had a project to do on Jane Eyre. She LOVED the book - but she's a hopeless romantic to begin with. Despite being seven years younger, I was more skilled than she in several areas, one being art, so I was put to work on her school project, making collages of different aspects (one about characters, one about events etc). I became really curious about the book. She turned it into a bedtime story in her own words, it was fun and novel (pardon the pun), getting told it over a week or so. It's really stuck with me over the years.
I finally read the book for myself when I was in college, not part of any class, but just because I felt like I should do so. I liked the book, but was more fond of the memories of my sister's interpretation.
BTW - I loaned Eyre Affair to a friend that had NOT read Jane Eyre, and it took them quite some time before they realized that the ending described in Jasper's book (pre-entering & changing) was not the real ending. That cracked me up. I figured EVERYBODY, even those who had not read the book or seen the movies, must know the ending of Jane Eyre.
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Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. --- Edgar Allan Poe