Jane Eyre V -- chapter 5: FIRST DAY OF INSTITUTION

Chapter five brings us out of the first scene of Jane's youth.  The chapter is fairly simply a transition--the drawing and raising of the curtains, of shifting of the lights.  Reset the stage for school and move one.  So, for a moment, disregard all the investigative and interpretative questions and, while the stage crew arranges, answer this only:

What do you think so far?

(The questions below are optional--except #2.  Answer #2.  Please.)


Reading Questions

1. Why is Mrs. Reed at all concerned with how Jane may speak of her and Gateshead while at Lowood?
2. Now that Jane is away from Gateshead, how do you think her behavior will change or how others think of her?
3. What lesson is Jane to learn from the girl with the book?
4. What do we know about Jane, combined with what we know about storytelling in general, that might help us make some predictions for her future?
5. What of the other orphans?