She was educated at the State University of Alabama, where she studied law. This experience, as well as her father being a lawyer, allowed her to develop an extensive knowledge of legal vocabulary, which is very much evident in the novel.
Both novels are told from an adult perspective. For example, both authors have written their novel 20 or 30 years after their childhood. The language in both novels, reflect the adult narrator, such as during Tom Robinson's court case, Atticus uses a lot of legal vocabulary when presenting the case. This reflects Harper Lee because her father was a lawyer and she studied law at university. So through this, she developed a wide knowledge of legal vocabulary. .
In Jane Eyre, there are many events that are described such as John hitting Jane with a book or the humiliation Jane endures by Mr. Brocklehurst. In chapter 1, Jane is continuingly being victimised by her cousins especially John, physically and mentally. For example, he finds her by the window, where she is quietly reading her book. He talks down to her, telling her to speak properly to him, "Say, "what do you want, Master Reed?" (P.3). He acts as though he is the head of the household, and should be spoken to accordingly by someone who is beneath a servant, and a dependant.
Although she is bullied and punished by John, his mother is "blind and deaf on the subject" and the servants do not like to "offend their young master" by siding with Jane (P.4). As a result of his abuse, Jane never thinks of "replying" (P.5) to him because she is terrified.
It is because of John's taunting and abuse that Jane is unfairly locked in the Red Room. She reacts to John throwing a library book at her head for no reason. Her aunt then leaves Jane in a secured room without giving her a chance to explain herself. This is very harsh considering he provoked her by throwing the book at her and John does not get punished for this.
