Not that it was unexpected, but "Antionette" is living a horrible life, on the down-low; I say that because she's mixed, so you'd think she'd have the best(or SOMETHING) of both worlds, but no, they both hate her and her family. The novel is in first person, so we see everything through Antionette's eyes which, as you progress through the novel (I predict), may become unstable and maybe even unreliable (since she IS a crazy lady in the making). The structure of the novel, to me, is similar to The Road: though the sentences don't feel truly fragmented like The Road, certain sentences come with a tag along "thought", but the thought is a sentence itself. Antionette, as early as the first page, shows how broken-ish she is by what is happening around her and the little life lessons she has been told. So far, nothing really major coincides with Jane Eyre yet.
Also, just to point this out, fire may be a major symbol, or even motif in this novel: it is something purifying, maybe?
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