1. Jayne Eyre
... "the gay tones set my heart at ease" (chapter 19, page 230). The reader is well aware that this will be no peaceful nights sleep. Bronte has successfully created tension and suspense as to the almost certainly tragic impending events. The fire in Rochester's bedroom not only forms ... . Silence composes the nerves" (chapter 15, page 167) which is ultimately followed by another startling sound, even more frightful that the preceding one; a dream scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough" (chapter 15, page 168). Jane's response to the ...
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- Grade Level: High School