Jane Eyre the heroine of this story is an orphan whose parents died while she was still an infant. Her mother married her father, a poor clergyman against the wishes of her grandfather Reed who disowned her. Her mom's brother, Mr Reed, a kind man who loved his sister took Jane in and considered her as his own daughter but he too died withn the year. ane was left with Mrs. Reed, who was uncaring, cruel and thoughtlless. Even her 3 cousins, John, Eliza and Georgiana were not nice to her and refused to play with her. At a very early age of 10, she was sent away to a boarding school, which is more like a charity school called Lowood, where life for her did not really get better. But Jane loved to learn and she persevered. She became close with one of her class
mates, Helen Burns. Helen was a Christian and influenced Jane a great deal. Jane graduated first in her class and she stayed for another two years at Lowood as a teacher.
On the day of the wedding, the ceremony was broken by the entrance of Mr. Mason and Mr. Briggs. They announced that Mr. Rochester was already married to Bertha Mason. She is mentally insane and lives in the attic of Thornfield Hall with Grace Poole.
Jane flees to Whitcross and lives there with St. John, a nice, serious clergyman with his 2 sisters Diana, and Mary. .She stays with them for a while and she almost agreed to accompany St John on a mission trip but then she felt she had to return to Thronfield Hall. She later learns that St.John, Diana, and Mary are her cousins.
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