"Too Good To Be True"?

If Helen Burns seems "too good to be true" to you, how does that reflect on either the narrator's perception or the author's development of character? Are there other characters in the first 8 chapters that seem too "flat" to you? What expectations do you have of the balance of the novel, given the characters you've met so far?

If Helen burns seems too good to be true, I believe that it would be difficult to have the character develop in the story. Having a character with a lot of well-rounded qualities would be difficult for the author because there isn't much more additional characteristics you could add to that character. In the next chapters of Jane Eyre, other characters seem to be able to develop if they have a certain disability in the story that is really essential. If Jane Eyre was a story about becoming confident in yourself, and she starts off having very low self-esteem, it would be really easy on the author to have her character develop throughout the story. Though the author could just talk about how she can develop; it shows through the problems or conflicts she faces. As far as my group has read so far, I believe that that the balance of characters would be uneven at times if the author were to introduce a very well-rounded character, like Helen Burns, compared to Jane Eyre whom doesn't own as many good qualities as she does.

Carlo Efe: Helen Burns is very smart, calm, and caring, but most of all she is religious. She is also Jane's best friend in the Lowood institute, and she compares Helen as a walking New Testament. For the people who don't know what a New Testament is, it's a section in the Bible where it talks about during Jesus times and his teachings, basically it's the new part of the Bible. Helen is a very optimistic person because though she is treated severely bad from Miss Scatcherd, she doesn't take it offensively. She is also open minded, what i mean by that is she tries to observe things from other people's perspective. Jane is confused by Helen's personality, which makes her " too good to be true." I'll ask you this, do you have any friends or people you know that is religious, optimistic, and open minded? If you didn't know this, the way Helen affects the author is her character is based from the author's sister Maria who died young. As what Cierra said in the first paragraph, " I believe that that the balance of characters would be uneven at times if the author were to introduce a very well-rounded character, like Helen Burns, compared to Jane Eyre whom doesn't own as many good qualities as she does."