Oyinkan Braithwaite

But I know I particularly loved Jane Eyre because when I was 11, I went to boarding school in Nigeria.

My parents were still in England.

And that was the book that I took with me.

and at some point it went missing and I had to tell my grandpa and he had to help me buy another one so I've had like a few editions of Jane Eyre over the years so I keep replacing them but yeah it has a I thought I would I thought as an adult like I would see it differently but I still have the same sort of love for it that I always did.

Yeah, no.

I mean, to be honest, I've had some heated conversations

discussions about, you know, and there was a book that really broke my heart.

I think it was called Mrs. Rochester.

And it was someone else writing part two to Jane Eyre.

And I was so excited when I first came across it.

But because of that book, I'm now very against people continuing an author's story after they've passed.

Like I'm super against it because

the author doesn't get a chance to say if that's the direction they would have gone in.

And I felt like the writer, she understood the times, but I think she missed the spirit.

I think she misunderstood.

She took Jane Eyre to be...

so much more submissive than she was.

I actually think that Jane as a character was a very strong, especially at the time that she, you know, the time she was in, I feel like she was an incredibly strong woman.

And I stand by that.

And that's usually why I end up having heated discussions about it because I stand by the fact that I think she was very strong.