Chapter 3

People:

• Mr. Lloyd
• Jane's family

Is there a difference between Bessie's treatment of Jane and Abbot's treatment of Jane?

-Abbot acts as a stern woman towards Jane and prefers the other children. She talks lowly about Jane as if she is a bad child. When Abbot is around, Bessie acts superior to Jane because she should respect her elders, following Abbot's ways of being the adult in the situation. When her and Jane are alone however, Bessie expresses her kind side to Jane and there is an obvious sense of sympathy for her.
Places:

1. Why is Jane’s Room reflective of her own personality in this chapter?

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  After Jane’s experience in the Red room she is left to recuperate in the one location in that is her own, her room.  Only In the attendance of the apothecary and Bessie does she heal and find the truth about her parents. This independence in her room symbolizes how introverted Jane is accustomed to be, her only family has isolated her into loneliness so her room becomes a center of solitude.  The author chooses her room as her healing place because by her own will she will get better and no one else has ever been there to help.

Summary: 

• Upon waking up from being in the red-room, Jane finds herself in her room in the care of Mr. Lloyd an apothecary. Mr. Lloyd discusses with Jane her condition in the house and Jane does not miss out on her only chance to tell someone about her arduous life there. She tells him how unfairly and malevolently she is being treated and ultimately he suggests sending her to school. Additionally, Jane learns new knowledge about her parents. A professor interpretation is the character of Mr. Lloyd as a "Christ-like" figure because he is the the first to show some care for her in the story and he is a doctor, see the resemblance?

Personal Reaction:

1. Do you think it's ironic that Jane "should not like to belong to poor people" considering her own father was of an inferior class?
• Yes i think there is a great deal of irony in that. Jane did not want to live a beggar's life, and yet her life with her aunt and cousins may in some cases have been worse. She would rather put up with being both physically and emotionally abused by everyone in the household rather than live a possibly more happy and fulfilling life with a family that might actually care and love her. This shows how much one's home life influences their opinions as Jane prefers being miserable in a wealthy family than happy in a poor family. (Gloria)
• I do not think it is very ironic.  She had been raised by a wealthy family.  I think she is quite accustomed to the wealth.  Therefore, I think it is natural that she wants that stability. (Nicole)
• This question kind of confused me, only because Jane had never showned any indication of carrying about the class system or anything superficial. Those possesions and objects never affected her, soo to say that is is ironic she should not belong to poor people is similar to saying that  she belongs to something she doesn't know or care of. (Becca)
2. How do you think Jane felt as she was being treated kind by both Bessie and Mr. Lloyd while she was ill?
• I think she was initially mistaken by this unusual kindness as she had hardly ever received any in the Gateshead home. However unsure she was feeling towards it, she did quickly take advantage of everything it brought to her including the feeling of companionship as Jane wouldn't know if another opportunity such as this would ever arise again. For this time, she was treated at least at the same level as a servant. I also think this random kindness may have also left Jane alarmed as to the extremity of her condition and whether she was truly in danger of death.  (Gloria) 
• I think she appreciated their kindness.  She does not normally receive positive feedback so I think she was delighted by the change. (Nicole)
• My best guess is that she remained indifferent about the treatment at first, (unknowing of its sentimentality) but the more she saw they actually cared about her and questioned on her condition made her accept this experience as a positive one (Becca)

Vocabulary:

1.) "I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing"(18)

• apothecary:a person that distributes drugs

2.) "It emboldened me to ask a question"(19)

• embolden:encouraged

3.)"it only gave my nerves a shock, on which I feel the reverberation still today"(20)

• reverberation:resonance

4.)"addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness"(20)

• unwonted:unaccustomed

5.)"I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging"(20)

• fagging:tiring task

6.)"the giants were gaunt goblins, the pigmies malevolent and the fearful imps"(21)

• pigmies:people of short stature

7.)"Up where the moors spread and gray rocks are piled?"(22)

• moors:uplands

8.)"Though both for shelter and kindred despoiled"(23)

• Despoiled:deprived

9.)"Again I paused; then bunglingly enounced"(25)

• bunglingly:awkwardly

10.)"while visiting among the poor of a large manufacturing town where his curacy was situated"(27)

• curacy:position

Chapter 3:

• People: Monica
• Places: Rebecca
• Summary: Ryan
• Personal Reaction: Gloria
• Vocabulary: Nicole