Another royal week for me! With Will and Kate coming state side next month, Kate was on the cover of People magazine so I picked one up at the grocery store to enjoy with my salad at lunch on Friday. I love looking at her fabulous outfits and beautiful fascinators. Since I have been able to travel to England I have been relishing in the recent focus on the royal family and London. And People magazine has one of the few cross-word puzzles I can actually finish.
Even though in my Jane Eyre readings this week the story took a bittersweet turn I couldn’t help, but laugh. I love Jane’s perspective on things and how she talks to the reader. It kind of reminds me of myself except older English. Jane writes, “Have I not described a pleasant site for a dwelling, when I speak of it as bosomed in hill and wood, and rising from the verge of a stream? Assuredly, pleasant enough: but whether healthy or not is another question.” Reading this passage is not funny per say, but when I relate it to myself it’s pretty accurate. It’s like when I go into great detail to tell my husband a story about something that has happened to me and he gives me the “Get to the point” look. Then I get hurt feelings and say something like, “I am trying to make you feel as if you’re there so you can appreciate my story.” And we agree that we’re just at an impasse in our storytelling.
In this chapter Jane started to speak more directly to the reader than in previous chapters. When I was in college I took a creative writing class. And although I loved my class and we called ourselves “The Piranhas of Love” the class just made me realize my limited writing abilities. I had a difficult time writing stories in third person; and truly being descriptive from an outside perspective. Jane talks directly to the reader and I kind of love it. It makes me sort of believe if I want to write a great novel I could write it in first person and be descriptive. At least the girls would like it!
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