Jane Eyre Essays - English-language Films, British Films, Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre Essays - English-language Films, British Films, Jane Eyre Jane Eyre Jane Eyre of Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre, develops drastically within the first few chapters of the novel. Her environment was a major influential factor in Janes development. It would shape the person she is and will be. Jane is a character of strength as a result of her vivid imagination and strong emotions, these made her extremely vulnerable to the environment around her. At the very beginning Jane is very feisty, and almost rebellious towards everyone around her. She seems to be aggravated and irritated by everything around because she is an orphan. With the progression of the novel she transforms by allowing the environment she is in to influence her by opening up to others and slowly terminating that rude little girl which existed at the very beginning. As Jane grows she becomes the influence of her environment. Her boldness, intelligence, kindness, as well as vulnerability transform her role in the novel. Jane has become the authority figure, a woman taking a strand without allowing others to stomp all over her. Janes role has reversed. Jane isnt only the main character of Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre she is also a revolutionary character. She is a representation of strength, symbolizing the new woman of literature. She was and has influenced her environment by being a blunt and outspoken person.

The Spellings of Shun

The Spellings of Shun The Spellings of Shun The Spellings of Shun By Maeve Maddox Commenting on my post about the spelling thru for through, a reader writes: And, I faintly remember that there are some 52 ways of spelling the syllable -shun. Can you please, in one of your articles, or series of them, [list] them? As far as I can remember there are only two words that end with the spelling -shion for shun. Fashion and cushion. -tion, cion, sion, ssion, and how many more can be listed this way? It should be an interesting exercise. I think it would take considerable effort to come up with 52 ways of spelling the syllable -shun, but I have seen lists of as many as thirteen. Critics of English spelling delight in cataloging as many different ways of spelling a sound as possible in an attempt to prove that English spelling is impossible to master. I tend to agree with Romalda Spalding that the problem isnt English spelling; its the way that spelling is taught: It is the failure to combine the sounds with the spelling of English which makes it seem so difficult to learn and makes so many common words seem to be exceptions to the general rules of spelling. The Writing Road to Reading. Thats not to say that there arent a great many English words that defy all phonetic explanation, but when the beginner is taught the sound/symbol correspondences as thoroughly as they can be taught, fewer exceptions remain to be memorized. Building on the work of Anna Gillingham and Dr. Samuel Orton, Spalding presents the sounds of English in terms of phonograms, not letters or syllables. Most of the spelling permutations of shun are covered as the beginning reader learns the four phonograms that can represent the sh [ÊÆ'] sound: sh, ti, si, ci. English spelling isnt easy, but it is not the arcane science that its made out to be. If schools would adopt some version of the Gillingham-Orton Multisensory Method of reading instruction beginning with kindergarten, the appalling reading failure rate in U.S. schools could be significantly reduced. As things are now, this efficient method for teaching reading, writing, and spelling is kept in reserve for children who fail to learn to read by grade three or four. In some school districts, that can be as many as half the children in the fourth grade. Here are some shun spellings from Page Four of the student-kept notebook at the center of Spalding instruction: nation Venetian session mansion electrician ocean Words like fashion, and coercion are covered by different rules. The example ssion is not a valid spelling of shun. In a word like succession, for example, the first s belongs to the second syllable: suc-ces-sion. Its easy to ridicule English spelling. Its a little harder to master the rules and patterns. Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Spelling category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below:How Many Tenses in English?When to Form a Plural with an ApostropheHow to Treat Names of Groups and Organizations