"Jane Eyre: The Graphic Novel" by Amy Corzine & Joe Sutliff Sanders, Illustrated by John M. Burns

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Bibliographic Citation

Title: Jane Eyre: The Graphic Novel

Authors: Amy Corzine, Joe Sutliff Sanders

Illustrator: John M. Burns

Year of Publication: 2008

Publisher City: Towcester

Publisher: Classical Comics Ltd.

ISBN: 9781906332488

Author Website: http://www.amycorzine.350.com/ & No Author Website

Illustrator Website: No Illustrator Website

Media Used for Artwork: Watercolor

Fiction Graphic Novel

"The Classics Revisited" Group Project-  Please visit our presentation here to learn more about how this graphic novel and others can be used in a high school curriculum.

Annotation

As an orphan Jane Eyre’s childhood was difficult.  But as she grows Eyre perseveres and becomes a governess at Thornfield where she meets Mister Rochester and quickly falls in love for him.  But Mister Rochester has many secrets.

Personal Reaction

                This quick text American English version of Charlotte Bronte’s novel allows readers a chance to learn the basic plot points of “Jane Eyre.”  Readers come to understand the actions of the characters and how the novel was set up.  This graphic novel is good for reluctant readers who may be intimidated by the vocabulary used in the original “Jane Eyre” or for those who have read the novel before and would like to remember the major plot points.

                The history of Bronte at the beginning of the graphic novel helps readers to understand how she was inspired to write her novels.  The character portraits are also useful to remember the characters names and their personalities.

                The watercolor illustrations helps to set the scene of early 19^th century England, there is an age to the images allowing readers to visually understand how old the story they are reading.  There was rawness by not coloring the characters fully at certain points.  It made the illustrations feel like a memory of Jane Eyre who enjoyed drawing and wanted to tell her story in that format.

School Curriculum: Grade 12 English- The quick text version can be used as a type of Spark Notes after students read the novel to understand the main parts of the novel.  Also the fact that the text in the graphic novel is written in American English makes it easier for students to understand certain points where students had difficultly with the original text.