Jane eyre short summary
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Generations
Chapter 1: The How and Why of Generations CHAPTER 1 The How and Why of Generations
In the Bay of Bengal between India and Myanmar lies North Sentinel, an island about the size of Manhattan. In 2018, a 26-year-old American paid a group of fishermen to take him there. He was never seen again.
North Sentinel is the home of one of the last groups of humans isolated from the rest of the world. Outsiders have visited over the centuries, including a group of anthropologists between the 1960s and 1990s, but the tribe has made it clear they want to be left alone. Boats and helicopters that get too close are greeted by tribesmen waving spears and bows, and the few lone outsiders who have ventured there have been killed, leading India to ban boats from traveling within a three-mile radius of the island. Although the tribe uses metal from shipwrecks for their weapons, they have no modern technology. Their day-to-day lives today are, in all likelihood, barely different from how they were two hundred years ago.
As a result, parents on North Sentinel are not shooing their kids of
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Jane Eyre
1847 novel by Charlotte Brontë
This article is about the novel. For its title character, see Jane Eyre (character). For other uses, see Jane Eyre (disambiguation).
Jane Eyre (AIR; originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by the English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published under her pen name "Currer Bell" on 19 October 1847 by Smith, Elder & Co. of London. The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.[2]Jane Eyre is a bildungsroman that follows the experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr Rochester, the brooding master of Thornfield Hall.[3]
The novel revolutionised prose fiction, being the first to focus on the moral and spiritual development of its protagonist through an intimate first-person narrative, where actions and events are coloured by a psychological intensity. Charlotte Brontë has been called the "first historian of the private consciousness" and the literary ancestor of writers such a
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Biography
E.R. Eddison taken by George Beresford c.1922
Background
Eric Rücker Eddison was born 24 November 1882 in Adel, Yorkshire, the eldest of two sons of Octavius Eddison, solicitor, and his wife, Helen Louisa (née Rücker). Adel was then a village, five miles north of Leeds, surrounded by countryside and close to open moorland.
Education
His early education was conducted at home by a series of tutors whom he shared with Arthur Ransome (the future author of Swallows and Amazons), the child of a neighbouring family. The two became lifelong friends and spent many hours in adventurous and imaginative play, some of which included the germs of Eddison’s later fiction. Afterwards Eddison attended Sunningdale Preparatory School in Berkshire before going to Eton, where he developed an interest in Icelandic. He went to Trinity College, Oxford in 1901 to study classics (Literae Humaniores), graduating with a 2nd class degree in 1905.
Civil Service career
The following year he joined the Board of Trade, where he remained for the next 22 years in a variety of roles. During th
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