In this chapter, the reader is given insight into the unhappy childhood of Jane Eyre.
Jane responds and her aunt sends her to the ‘Red room’ as punishment. Violence is introduced when John discovers Jane sat in the drawing room, reading ‘History of British Birds’ on the window seat and he then confiscates and throws the book at Jane. The audience feels pathos for Jane Eyre when we discover her aunt has forbidden her from playing with her cousins and is then conspired against and bullied particularly by her cousin John Reed. The scene is set on a bleak November afternoon creating an unhappy and depressing atmosphere. The scene is set at Gateshed, the home of the wealthy Reed Family who Jane (being orphaned) lives with. Novel begins with first person narration from the main character Jane Eyre who is a child in the scene. This is a Chapter-wise summary of Jane Eyre. As if that wasn't enough, Thursday also has to assist her time-traveling father, marry the man she loves, figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays, bring peace to the Crimea - and finally discover the truth about bananas. With its narrator missing, half the book is blank and the world holds its breath. Thursday - her tenacity as remarkable as her love life is disastrous - is frantically pursuing the world's third most evil man who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a dastardly display of literary vandalism. For literary detective Thursday Next, it's very much business as usual.
In "this" 1985, normalcy is a rare commodity: aunts are lost inside Wordsworth poems, militant Baconians heckle performances of 'Hamlet', and forging Byronic verse carries a custodial sentence. There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Wales is a Soviet Republic, dodos are available in home-cloning kits, the Crimean war is 131 years old and the ending of 'Jane Eyre' is less than satisfactory.
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