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Sympathy for Jane
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. Extract-based option: the children John Reed and Jane Eyre are in the breakfast-room at Gateshead Hall.
How does Bronte create sympathy for Jane, in this extract and elsewhere in the novel?
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Marking points
- 1 Uses extract and wider novel.
- 2 Explores sympathy, injustice, abuse and outsider status.
- 3 Analyses Bronte's first-person narration and language.
Why this answer loses marks
John Reed is cruel to Jane.
This describes cruelty but does not explain how Bronte creates sympathy through narration, elsewhere and context.