Dear Bessie,
I',m writing you from my new home, here at Thornfield. Just few day ago I met the owner of the house, Mr. Rochester. He is single and have this big house full of people working on it and a girl that she adopted called Adele (the one I have to teach). Also I feel that Mr. Rochester is kind a mysterious in this way of acting, I mean, all here is very spooky, I listen things at night that scary me and some things or people are very strange.
Maybe I exaggerated the situation, but I prefer to be aware of any strange things that disturbs the normal life that I have finally reached, away from the past. Yes Bessie, my life experiences have affected my in considerable way, and nowadays I have be thinking about it. You might think why I didn't tell you this when we met at Lowood School, but I don't have a clear reason to response to that question, I only now that now I feel comfortable to write you about it.
From the beginning my life started wrongly, I mean, my fathers die and I was send to the Reed's family. Being in that family, I can say, is the worst thing that have happened in my life, I'm simply not compatible to the Reed's and they might think the same about me. In that house the only person that was good and kindly with me was you Bessie and also Mr. Reed in his moment, but the rest, they were a group of abusers that feel superior to the rest of the people that were at the house (including me, of course). The thing is that they agree to make my stay at Gateshead a terrible experience, and believe, they reach their objective. As I tell to Mrs. Reed once, I'm glad that they are no relation of mine. The only thing that I never turned, was to make public the miserable cruelty to which I was subjected at Gateshead.
Later I leave Gateshead, to start a new life at Lowood School for girls, in which I thought it will be a good experience, but the time will show me that my thoughts were completely wrong. At Lowood School I learned what is the hard life and I also met bad people that make me the life as terrible as at Gateshead. Time at Lowood was eternal, and the routine was something that upset me physically and psychologically. The only thing that I rescue from my experience at Lowood is that I met two incredibly persons: Miss Temple and Helen. The first one is like you Bessie, a role mole of my childhood, one of the only kindly persons, that I met when I was a child (including you also).
Now, as I told you at the
beginning, I’m at Thornfield, with the objective to be a role model to Adele,
as you and Miss Temple were my role model during my childhood. Going back to
what I told you first, I feel that strange things are taking place here at Thornfield.
For example, few days ago, when I met Mr. Rochester, I was at the street and I
saw a dark shape of a horse walking to me, and I immediately thought that it
was a Gytrash. Yes Bessie, a Gytrash, those spirits from your stories that
frighten belated travelers. Hopefully it was Mr. Rochester in his horse. But
the fact is that the atmosphere in the street or in the house is very
mysterious, I mean, the fog is always present, and darkness combined with this
strange sounds that are inside the house. Is like something has this place,
something that I can understand or I haven’t seen it.
I insist that maybe I’m exaggerating
all this situations. Maybe I need more time to adapt myself to this new home
that I have, because leaving is not an option for me. Any little sound or
strange moment are better than what I have leaved at Gateshead or Lowood
School, believe me. And another reason that attracts me to this place is that I
think that Mr. Rochester is very handsome, and it’s important that as I said
before, he is single! But I have to be realistic, I’m not a kind of women that
Mr. Rochester will take in consideration, he might be looking to some rich girl
from a novel English family to get marry. I have to assume it, that is what our
society establishes, and it’s very difficult to change how things are
established by the society. It’s sad, but it the reality in which we lived.
Well Bessie, that’s all that I
have to tell you in this moment, but I promises you that I will write you again
as soon as I have new things to tell you. For now I will continue with my job
of teaching to Adele and also I will try to know more about the owner of this big
house, and I will try to above all these strange aspects that I tell you
before.
Sincerely
Jane Eyre.
RATIONALE
I decided to write a letter in which Jane Eyre tell her feelings and impressions
about her new life at Thornfield, because I thing that a letter is something
more personal and type of text that let express the feelings in a better way,
because we suppose that the people involved in the letter have a closer relationship. Also during the
letter I put a very important element: Jane’s childhood, in which Jane describe
the awful life that she lives during her stay at Gateshead and Lowood School
for Girls. Another important thing is the mention of the mysterious atmosphere
that it’s presented in the history.
The audience is adults or young people I think, because this is a very complex
novel of the Victorians times , so for children it might be difficult to
understand.
About the
language, I used a formal language,
trying to represent the language that Jane might used in the case she wrote a
letter to Bessie. Formal language, because in the Victorians times the way they
write was very formal, without jargon or informal expressions that are very
common nowadays.
In summary the idea was to represent a letter of the Victorians times,
wrote by a girl (Jane Eyre) in which she released all what she is feeling and
what she have lived.
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