I understand that the Narrator went through tons of intense emotions in her life that effected her mental health leading up to now. She showed her feelings throught the Global Issues of Trauma, Neglect, and depression. For example, she used the sentence, "Such was what I knew of existence. And now I felt that it was not enough." This feeling left her feelings depressed and helpless. She used the IB Concept of transformation to show when she realized that everything she knew was worthless to some extent. She used Literary Elements to help us picture what happened, for example, liberty as a metaphor for freedom, which is all she wanted since she realized. She also used the Gothic Novel Element of isolation to show us that she never had anyone to talk to other than who was at her school so she was very self-centered. All of the things she went through contributed to her depression and that she just wanted freedom since she realized she never really understood everything.

I wrote about how the narrator tells us what her life is currently like; The type of situation she seems to be in. In the excerpt "Jane Eyre" the narrator tells us that the setting is in a more isolated place and it seems like it's away from many people she can have any interaction with. The use of imagery throughout the excerpt gives us an idea on how the surroundings look for her. The IB concept of Identity shows up when she says "it was those I longed to surmount" and "How I longed to follow it farther!" The narrator shows in her identity that she longs for something more. It shows she might be an adventurous or curious person. The Gothic Novel Element of Atmosphere is indicated when she describes the place she's at as "all within their boundary of rock and heath seemed prison-ground, exile limits." It shows a more isolated and even kind of dark atmosphere, depending on how you look at it. Then the Literary Element of Polysyndention appears in the text when she repeatedly uses the word "and" in her sentence as she describes everything and she seems overwhelmed by all these events and rules in her life. Admittedly, there are a few ways to interpret what she is feeling and how you can understand her as a character. It seems like she might have been through some trauma in her life and is just being overtaken by everything at the current moment.

The narrator used a mix of Global issues, IB concepts, Literary elements, and areas of exploration in this excerpt from Jane Eyre. The narrator also expresses her deep thoughts and feelings and this helps make a connection with the reader. The narrator is unhappy with her current place and is curious to see more from life. She uses many different IB concepts, Global Issues, Literary elements and areas of exploration to express that. For example the narrator uses the IB concepts of Identity to show her curiosity, it says " How I long to follow it farther!". This quote can deeper express how the narrator feels making us have a better understanding of her. The narrator continues on to use a Global issue of depression to further express her situation "Such was what I knew of existence". The narrator really embraces her situation and is very open about it and continues to explain why she wants to get out and see more from the world. This is a short summary of what I have learned just from this excerpt about the narrator and how she expresses her craving for more from her life and the world.

In the excerpt from Jane Eyre the narrator shows she had gone through a life changing event or events. The global issue of depression is shown when the narrator talks about how she doesn't like anything about her school down to even the voices of people. This shows that she doesn't like her situation and wishes she wanted in it. There is also the IB concept of transformation. This is shown when she goes from praying for liberty to crying out to anyone for new servitude. It shows that she had transformed and that she did so because she was desperate. She also uses Imagery to explain what she can see This is a white winding road and 2 mountains. I believe the imagery is also a metaphor that means she can see liberty and wants it but can't get to it. This is a summary of how Charlotte Bronte used literary elements, global issues and IB concepts to show how the narrator felt.

The novel Jane Eyre that incorporates gothic elements like mystery, a dark tone, atmosphere that helps us as the reader to understand how the narrator is feeling and how it affects her identity. Which is feeling trapped while having the desire to have freedom and control of her own life. Something that helped me get to that point was the line, "How I longed to have follow it farther!" and the mention of "prison grounds, exile limits" making it clear that Jane Eyre is tired of leading the life of oppression and having no contact with the outside world. It is clear she is young when the mention of school becomes apparent showing how the control may be coming from those around her. The overwhelming restrictions and isolation making her crave that freedom that much more, wanting to meet a person an animal and or even just something new to give her some sort of excitement. The line "And now I felt it was not enough" shows how her identity relies on that feeling of being able to discover new things in her own time and manner of which she would be control of but she doesn't what she had before is no longer what she craves or can be satisfied with because she is weary of the same routine and part she has to play.

In the excerpt from Jane Eyre, Jane is a school-aged girl who has been at Lowood, doing the same monotonous activities for eight years. By describing how she longed to travel beyond the barriers of Lowood and how she "felt that it was not enough", she showed the IB concept, identity through her desperation. I found that Jane also expressed the gothic element, intense emotion because she is begging for a new servitude. Jane was not in contact with the "outer world" and it seemed as if she is overwhelmed by the ridged expectations of Lowood. I also came across the Global issue, Mental health and the thought of Jane being neglected due to her being isolated from the outside world and her showing signs of depression without any support.

Johnathan Morris

In the Jane Eyre excerpt by Charlotte Bronte, the author enforced many uses of imagery to give the reader an idea of what Jane Eyre is living like and why she is thinking in a depressed way. For example "My vacations had all been spent at school... I had no communication by letter or message with the outer world. Jane Eyre talks in a mysterious alone manner and seems to want the reader to know what she is going through. In this excerpt, the author uses the global issue "prison" to show how Jane Eyre is at her lowest. The author also shows an IB concept of flashback: "I traced on the white road winding around the base of one mountain, and vanishing in a gorge between two; how I longed to follow it father!". This shows that Jane Eyre is bored and thinking back on an old memory.

There are many ways to understand the character but it can clearly be seen that the character Jane is the narrator's attempt to expresses herself through her poem and her character named Jane to show her struggles in her life. She uses many things to explain herself and her feelings, from reflecting, to imagery about her mental state, that she feels through a tough time in school and in life to the point of isolating herself from others. That's when I saw signs of the global issue of depression, she's isolating herself on purpose, that she feels trapped in her own life to the point of hoping for any sort of freedom. I saw how she described her environments and surroundings in her poem; like her garden, the buildings of wings, the mountains and so much more. That attentiveness of everything from how she specifically felt to what surrounds her is something I figured out was a IB concept of her Identity, of who she's is and that she's attentive to the smallest things, to the point she knows something doesn't feel right in her life. That her attentiveness gave her the abilities to make perfect literacy elements of imagery, with the mountains being metaphorical barriers that they act as a physical boundary, an obstacle. That the "hilly horizon"and "exile limits" being more barriers that she can see the horizon, her goal and desire for the better but the exile limits being what's just holding her back physically. That her gothic novel element is isolation, a isolation that confides her with social rules and a mental thoughts that are what truly holds her physically back from her desires and hopes.

This excerpt of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte shows how Bronte uses IB concepts to show how the character in this story feel without being direct such as when she said " Longed to follow it farther !" this shows how the character wants to travel outside of their home Bronte also uses gothic novel elements when she says "Prison-ground , exile limits " this show how the character feels trapped at Lowood and wishes to leave this place to be free without the IB concepts and Gothic novel elements Bronte would not have been able to express how bad this character wants to get out . Another example is that Bronte used the IB concept of transformation when she said " And now I felt that is was not enough" this show how at first she loved being in the house and know she just wants to get out because she's been going through this cycle every day and just wants to leave school.

In the excerpt by Charlotte Bronte that is titled Jane Eyre, Charlotte uses many different literary terms, global issues,and IB concepts. Bronte writes that someone looked out window and saw garden and there were skirts of lowood and then writes that there was a "hilly horizon" which can be seen as a literary term of alliteration and or imagery. The character talked about her eyes seeing all of these things like blue peaks and mountains and they really seem that they are yearning to get out and see all of these beautiful things but in her case all she wanted was to escape her home to see nature.The character talks about her only vacation being school which could be very depressing so this could be a global issue of depression. The character used a literary term of metaphor to compare her daily life to a prison. Bronte writes "all within their boundary of rock seemed prison ground, exile limits" Bronte also writes that the character of the story has no way of messaging with the outer world not even by letter. The last few lines the character talks bout how tired they are of living the same life everyday and they basically want to see something new which could show a IB Concept of Perspective this shows us the way the character is feeling and how they are dealing with life. Overall this story shows many great points and gives us a clear perspective on how the character is feeling and dealing with life as she goes through a hard obstacle.

In Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte there were examples of global issues, ib concepts, gothic novel elements, literary elements, and areas of exploration. One of the literary terms used is alliteration, and one example used is, "there was a hilly horizon" basically the narrator wants you to imagine the setting of the excerpt and how it helps you better understand what's happening. This example was describing what the view out the window was and the beauty it brought. It is easier to know the setting in the excerpt when the narrator uses imagery and or alliteration. An Ib concept I came across was identity about the narrator and she went through life changing events.