Response to question 2
"From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed hardly on the younger pupils," this quote from chapter 7 of Jane Eyre helps to summarize the chapter the best. Throughout the chapter the words have a somber and worried tone. Creating the feeling that they don't know how much longer they will survive. I think the main point of the chapter is talk about dealing with struggles, and showing what you have to do to survive. By talking about lack of nourishment and how it effects the youngest shows the reader the extremes. The speaker is explaining how tough it was to function without the necessity and how not being able to function effected them in even more negative ways, referring to the types of punishments they would receive from falling asleep in class.
While I appreciated your examination of diction and tone to develop your argument, I do wish you had cited specific evidence from the text rather than simply pointing out parts of the plot. It is also necessary to look at social and historical context in this response.
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