5. Explanation of dialogue 5-13

Explanation:

 

Jane is left with no other option but to have a self learning session with her uncle's picture books. She sits with the books, not causing any disturbance to any family members. But her three cousins do not let her to read in peace. Even if she moves away from their presence, they deliberately try to mock her and put her in trouble. John, Eliza, and Georgina search for her and cross paths with her. John, who is the eldest, tries to exert his dominance on her. It is also noted that he is very young but is still a bully. He sees his mother being unkind and abusing Jane and learns from that. It is a fine example to showcase that children learn from their parents. John orders Jane about in the house. When she asks him the reason why he had called her, he immediately responds with, "Come here when I call you." This shows the way he considers her as a slave to him who has no rights to speak or question their masters.

 

 

The theme of Jane being denied education can be seen in the conversation later when Eliza questions her what she is reading. When Jane says that she has her uncle's book "Bewicks’ History of British Birds", they are shocked and order that Jane has no rights to read books, let alone their father's book. This can also be seen as the children's insecurity that their father's book is read by an outsider. John's reaction to Jane reading the book sums up the entire problem with education being denied for people who were from a lower strata with no fortune. John gets rude to her when he says that books are meant for people like her, meaning that she belongs to a different group. He treats her as a dependent. He is informed by his mother that Jane's father left her no fortune and repeats the same to her. He crosses the line when he says that Jane has no rights to live with gentlemen's children and that she is supposed to go begging on the streets to make her living.

 

When Jane walks away quietly from his presence, he cannot take the fact the she had not responded and therefore throws the book at her, attacks her from behind, causing injuries to her. This shows that how young children, if not guided in the proper direction, will grow up to violent men, who would swoop down to the level of attacking women. This leads to Eliza screaming, which brings Mrs. Reed and Bessie up.

 

 

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