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The Book Club: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë with Madeleine Kearns

The Book Club

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The Fire and the Ace

Jane learns from helen what it is to be meek and to be humble. But judgment untempered by feel is too bitter and husky, a morsel for human deglutition. So i find that the there is moderate middle position between the fire and the ace. And i find that it's actually represented best in a character who would be very easy to over look,. The character of helen burns.

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