Reviews tagging 'Child death'

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

112 reviews

mistystar's review against another edition

adventurous emotional medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Emotional abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Grief, and Death of parent

edwardian_girl_next_door's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I first read this book in middle school and was thoroughly unimpressed; but reading it again, I have absolutely fallen in love. I think it's one of those books where you can find little gems tucked away in every time you read it. There's so much commentary on this (rightful) classic that I won't say much, only that I admire Jane's character for not succumbing to things she finds demeaning or morally wrong. She faces so much pressure from her aunt, her school's discipline and Helen Burns' example, Mr. Rochester, and St. John Rivers, but she refuses to bend to anything she doesn't want. As someone who has experienced far-right, high-control religion, I particularly focused on her rejection of the mamby-pamby, turn-the-other-cheek, obedient-until-death attitude represented by Helen Burns and St. John Rivers. She is a real person, not a monolith or symbol, who makes her own way in within the systems she lives in. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Forced institutionalization, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Infidelity, Misogyny, Racism, Suicide, and Classism

Minor: Toxic relationship, Violence, and Colonisation

thomasdj's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Suicide, and Fire/Fire injury

Minor: Child death

lunar_moths's review against another edition

Was a really good book, it was just a bit to slow paced for me particularly being a student

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Sexism, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Chronic illness, and Sexism

Minor: Child death, Death of parent, and Classism

green_amaryllis's review against another edition

emotional mysterious reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Child death, Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

brodi727's review against another edition

dark emotional mysterious reflective tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Sexism, and Fire/Fire injury

Moderate: Bullying, Child death, and Death of parent

Minor: Suicidal thoughts

thewillowwood's review against another edition

dark inspiring mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I loved this book. It has many flaws, to be sure, but it was one that I felt deeply connected to throughout.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexism, Terminal illness, and Classism

Moderate: Ableism, Mental illness, Antisemitism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Abandonment, Injury/Injury detail, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Confinement, Racial slurs, Racism, Toxic relationship, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Religious bigotry, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation

goodchivesonly's review against another edition

dark funny inspiring mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Mental illness, Fire/Fire injury, and Classism

beckyyreadss's review against another edition

dark emotional slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I decided to read this book because I bought a poster with 100 books to read in your lifetime. This is the fourteenth book I've read on this poster. As with most books on this poster, I struggled with it. I don’t know if it’s the whole “classic” feel to them, but it was a mission to finish and usually when I feel like a book is a mission to finish it can be worth it, but this wasn’t. 

This book follows a girl named Jane Eyre, throughout her life, she is a seemingly plain and simple girl as she battles through her life’s struggles. Jane has many obstacles in her life – starting with her cruel and abusive Aunt Reed, the grim conditions of Lowood School and her love for her employer Mr Rochester and finding out he is married.  

My issue with this book is that it gave me whiplash. I understand that we basically watch Jane Eyre grow up from this small child that was being abused because she was an orphan, and a woman made a promise, she couldn’t keep to sending her off to boarding school and then getting employed. That was fine, Mr Rochester and Sir John are who gave me whiplash. If this book was written in this day and age, I would have killed for it to be a feminist book where she doesn’t need a man to be happy – but obviously back in those days it was either be married and look after the house or be a spinster and be poor. Also, I hated both “love” interests if you can call them that. I wanted to punch Mr Rochester in the face so many times. The way he lied, the way he treated his wife and yet Jane was like “oo yeah, I want some of that.” it just hurt my head. And then Sir John threatening her employment after she gave him money because she wouldn’t marry him – they are cousins, again I know it’s not as weird back then, but it just rubbed me the wrong way.  

The only reason why this book didn’t get rated any lower is because of Jane and I wanted to hug her and smack her at the same time for not having that parental figure that she needed and that her other cousins weren’t complete idiots.
  

I am not having the best of luck with this poster, but I've got 86 books to go!  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Mental illness, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Child death, Death, and Suicide

Minor: Death of parent and Fire/Fire injury

helianthus_annuus's review against another edition

emotional sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Child death and Death

Minor: Child abuse and Medical content