Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0923 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Brontë's First Sentence
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The idea
Jane Eyre opens that there was no possibility of taking a walk that day. The first word after is we, then I, so the narrator is inside the events. No fact about the world is offered before a fact about the narrator's own situation.
In practice
The narrator is inside the events.
Where people slip
Her situation comes before the world's.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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