After our my last revision, I didn't have much more to add to my story. In my last revision, the character returns to her relationship which doesn't work. After one of the comments Mr. Allen left on my story, I realized that that just doesn't work. It didn't really make sense for her to go on a figurative journey, and then come back to something that just doesn' work.
While talking during class, Mr. Allen said that the ending needed to have the character make a substantial shift in thinking. He also said that we can't give the characters exactly what they want, but what they need.
My character may have wanted to return to her relationship and have everything work out, but that didn't make for the best story. Once I realized this, the story became much more meaningful.
Metacognition: Jane Eyre Transcript
This was a pretty interesting assignment, as well as being fairly open-ended. We had to have six Jane Eyre quotes, three references to other books we’ve read, and a big topic. Ours was “Breaking the status quo”.
While writing this, our direction seemed to shift more towards a general conversation about the status quo, who’s participants just happened to be Jane, Charlotte Bronte, and an academy student then a conversation about the status quo just in Jane Eyre.
I’m not sure whether we’ve created what Mr. Allen asked for, and according to the project page on his website, I can’t be entirely sure. But I think that writing it the way we did made for an extremely interesting discussion, one which makes interesting points, as well as revealing more about the book itself.
Whether or not our finished product is ideal, I’m proud of it, and I feel that the process that led to it was interesting, and well, thought provoking.
