Jane Eyre Case
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Jane Eyre is written in first person point of view. Some event are Written in past, some are written in Present.
Jane Eyre is an orphan, living with her aunt and cousin who dislike her. Jane lives at Gateshead and is living with her relatives because of the death of her parents.
Jane's cousin John reminds her that she is poor and is dependent of his mother. John finds Jane reading his book and then is angered and throws the book at her. Jane fights back and then is locked in the red room.
Jane is then sent to Lowood School, a charity institution, for orphan girls run by Mr. Brocklehurst. A stingy and mean hearted minister. Brocklehurst provides the girls with starvation of food, freezing rooms and poorly made clothing and shoes. Jane Eyre still prefers the school than the Reeds.
At Lowood School she makes two friends Miss Temple and Helen burns. From Miss Temple she learns ladylike behavior and compassion. From Helen she gains spiritual focus. The schools damp condition takes lives of many students including Helen Burns. Miss Temple marries, and Lowood seems more difficult and different without her.
Jane accepts a job at Thornfield. Jane is warmly welcomed and likes both her new pupils Adèle Varens, and Mrs. Fairfax, the housekeeper at Thornfield, but is soon restless. Jane helps a horseman whose horse slipped on a patch of ice. Returning to Thornfield, Jane discovers that this man is Edward Fairfax Rochester, the owner of Thornfield and her employer.
Jane then realizes later on in the book that she has fallen in love with Mr. Rochester. Jane then leaves Thornfield for a month to attend her aunt, who is in her deathbed. When Jane returns to Thornfield, the houseguests have left. Rochester tells Jane he will soon marry Blanche, so she and Adèle will need to leave Thornfield. In the middle of this charade, Jane reveals her love for him, and the two ends up engaged. Jane is happy to be marrying the man she loves, but during the month before the wedding she is bothered by strange dreams of a destroyed Thornfield and a wailing infant.
Jane leaves Thornfield without getting married and without any clothes and food. She collapses and is sent to St John Rivers. Jane late discovers that the St John real name was St John Eyre rivers, so he, his sisters, and Jane his cousins.
One night Jane hears Rochester voice calling out for her. Jane immediately leaves Moor house to search her true love, Rochester. She finds Thornfield a burnt wreck. She drives to Ferndean. Jane carries a tray to Rochester and reveals her identity. The two lovers are reunited and married. She later quotes in the novel about her firs-baby-son.
There are different types of setting in the book: Gateshead, Thornfield, and Moor house, Lowood, Cottage and Ferndean.
Her early childhood is spent in Gateshead Hall, the home of the Reeds; from there
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