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The final section of the book deals with the movement towards community, and how the first two restorative ideas are directly related to the success of an alternative culture. Buchan said she finished the book in 1995, but was cynical about finding a publisher. "I have strong beliefs in bioâ€"regionalism, so | thought, I might as well start a publishing comâ€" pany that promotes regional authors. "Blue Crow Books is an extension of my beliets that we, as a region, have to take care of ourselves," she said. "It‘s a regional publishing company created to encourage the diverse voice silenced by The second part of the book looks at social restoration, and how a regional community cares for social problems and takes responsibilâ€" ity for crime and violence. Through descriptions of mediation and restiâ€" tution practices in the region, Buchan offers a different form of justice based on reconciliation that breaks the cyde of violence and retaliation which affects life at all levels. "The emphasis is on healing rather than punâ€" ishment," said Buchan. "In the restorative model, we find humanity and we decide how to act." the groundwork for a sustainable, regional emphasize profits through media manipulation economy. instead of unique material valuable to a broad The second part of the book looks at social spectrum of readers who care about themâ€" restoration, and how a regional community selves, their neighbors, their place and the Now I do see the characters in much the way the feminists suggest. There is something frightening about the novel and the governess sion of her own repressed anguish. They may have a point. I recently reâ€"read that novel for another reaâ€" son, and | was startled by my current view of it. My reactions were not what they were when | read the book as a high school student, or even in university. Then I saw it as a romantic novel, somewhat exaggerated, but interesting and are more interesting than postâ€"Freudian fiction. Those writers are not as selfâ€"conscious about the psychological aspects of the characters they creâ€" ate. Emotions and personalities show dearly, without masquerading. They are often very raw. Feminist readers of Jarie Eyre have suggested that there is a full personality in the combinaâ€" tion of the female characters in the novel. They suggest that the screaming Jane hears at night in the strangely haunted house is the expres Local author He says that he has ~ < m mmooaiee always been fascinated by the story and wanted, as he made the film, to convey the life of Charlotte Bronte. That is an interesting statement, because there is no particular rea son to think of Jane Eyre as Charlotte Bronte. Jane is an imagined character who has taken on such life of her own that we look for a real life connection. in some way, I resent Zeffirelli‘s assumption that while Bronte has created an imaginary character in Rochester, she is simply writing about herself in Jane Eyre. Sometimes | think that preâ€"Freudian novels 1 have been amused and pleased by the numâ€" ber of people who have quietly confessed to me that they have spent the winter readingâ€" or reâ€"reading Jane Austen. I begin to think that as this century rolls over, we are all looking over one shoulder to see what we want to take on into the next one. * it seems that we are also going to take Charâ€" lotte Bronteâ€"or at least Wls i that we are going to spend part of the sumâ€" mer talking about and reading Jane Eyre, either before or after we see Franco Zetfirelli‘s film But what did Bronte think of Jane Eyre? m e esns o V nR neniny There are 2,000 copies available of the first edition, and the cost is $18.60. To order the Transformation in Canada‘s Deep South by phone, call 570â€"0960, or write to Blue Crow Books, P.O. Box 40091, 75 King St. S., Waterloo, Ont., N2J 4V1. Transformation in Canada‘s Deep South is available at Wordsworth, Readers‘ ink Bookâ€" shop, Full Circle Natural Foods, Smith Books (Westmount Place) and HollyOak. Buchan said the book is aimed at citizens "who want to contribute to environmental, social and personal solutions to local and global "I have a goal that by the year 2000, I won‘t be publishing on pulp," she said. "I would like to print on locally grown hemp paper, and | think that may become a reality soon." To advocate her beliefs in bioâ€"regionalism, Buchan had the book published in Brantford, even though it could have been done for less in the United States. Eventually, she would like to see all the prodâ€" ucts used in her publishing endeavors come from the regional economy. Judith Miller is an associate professor of English at Renison College at University of Waterloo. 1 cannot help wondering: if Rochester is so like Samson, who, in the end, is Bertha, and who is Jane Eyre? Bronte offers no comment on the outcome of her novel. We do not know what she thought of Jane Eyre. it will be very interesting to see what Franco Zeffirelli makes of her. Freud labelled the kinds of phenomena which Bronte observed and presented in her fiction. | am quite sure that it is my modernâ€"or perâ€" haps postmodernâ€" sensibility which is chilled by the image of a blind Rochester, whose hair has been burned away. We can be absolutely certain that Charlotte Bronte, who knew her Bible well, did not miss the significance of that, try to hide it The doser people are to the secret, the more sinister they are. Dark, malevolent men are usually a part of the Gothic novel. These men live as laws unto themselves and often wreak havoc on the peoâ€" cent members of the household are usually the Architecture is often a focus of the Gothic novel, A great lonely house, usually isolated, keeps the secret which becomes an obsession in the lives of the people close to it. Servants are and insanity often blur. it was to be several more generations before at the centre of it, beyond what happens in the plot. Partly, she fits into the Victorian ideal of the little woman who brings the bad, wild, man under control, No wonder Queen Victoria loved it. it has all the Gothic elements which delighted the Victoâ€" rians. At the centre of all Gothic novels is someâ€" thing hidden. There is always a brooding atmosphere which surâ€" rounds that Secret. People (Continued from page 24) ye partin t t w n i t t n in ht on en an w sn Almost always, that secret, grown to enorâ€" mous proportions in the dark, bursts out upon the lives of the people who go to great lengths to # # #