TPMJB - Second Half

Summary:

Miss Brodie’s set grows up and they move on to the senior level, all of them taking the classical curriculum except for Mary. The girls perform Miss Lockhart’s science experiments, and five of them study Greek while Mary studies German and Spanish. The headmistress divides the Brodie set and separately questions the girls, hoping to obtain any information about Miss Brodie that they could use against her. Sandy believes that paintings of Mr. Lloyd’s wife and children do not look like Miss Brodie, but his paintings of the schoolgirls capture something of their teacher. As the girls become fourteen and fifteen, Miss Brodie confides in them about Mr. Lowther’s devotion to her. Miss Brodie wants to confide more completely in one of the girls, and she selects Sandy. The girls are still questoned by the headmistress about Miss Brodie even after they reach 17. Joyce, the new girl, decides on taking Miss Brodie’s political views to heart; she disappears from school, and six weeks later students learn that she has run away to Spain and died in a train accident. In the final year, only four of the original six girls are still enrolled at Blaine School.  Sandy becomes Mr. Lloyd’s lover, but from that relationship she values most his religion, Catholicism. Sandy then also becomes a nun. In that same senior year, when questioned by Miss Mackay, Sandy tells the headmistress that Miss Brodie was a Fascist. Once this was revealed, this political position forces Miss Brodie to resign at the end of that school year.


Quote: 

" After all she was a woman in her prime "

(Spark 3hours,45mins,38 secs)

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This theme of "prime" kept reocurring throughout the whole novella. Miss Brodie was a woman in her prime. She was very strong and sturdy; and even after the years and the aging was still beautiful. She traveled all over Europe and had a passion for Hitler and Musulini. She had many lovers and was an extremely free spirit. Her political views were what forced her to resign; however she left a little bit of her inside each and every single girl in the Brodie set. Even years after her death and their aging the girls still talked to each other. Every conversation always led to Miss Brodie being brought up. Miss Brodie showed these girls the real world and made herself memorable to them. 

TPMJB - First Half

Summary:
Miss Brodie ruins the schools curriculum as she puts foward her own passions: both personal and academic. She teaches the girls what she believes is important and in order of importance. She shares with her girls her status in the school and trouble she has with the headmistress. Miss Brodie is memorable for these students and the work she did with them, they remember her throughout their lives which their repeated flash-forwards reveal. These girls, along with one other, form “the Brodie set.” This Brodie set is who Miss Brodie considers the "creme de la creme."
 The girls all have different traits; Miss Brodie uses that to try and plot her plan to stay within the school no matter what any adminstrator has to say. The girls soon start to realize that the group constitutes the body of which Miss Brodie is the head; which is to say Miss Brodie is the master mind behind everything. 


Quote:

"There is a long story attached to Miss Brodie's retirement. She was betrayed by one of her own girls; we were called the Brodie set."

(Spark 43mins,38seconds)

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This is an example of dual narrative voice which is used a lot in this novella. Sandy is using dual narrative voice because this is her reflecting upon Miss Brodie in her prime; this is known because Sandy says before she wished to visit her grave, if she could ever find it. Also, it used foreshadowing. It used foreshadowing because we now know that Miss Brodie gets betrayed and that she ends up retiring although her struggle to maintain within the school system. However, we don't know how they finally get her to retire. We also don't know who betrayed Miss Brodie and how; we are simply left to wonder and to keep reading.