Lowood Boarding School contains the experience needed to produce positive refinement in its inhabitants. As Jane Eyre studies at Lowood, extreme physical deprivation confronts her. ... Her environment positively affects her character by presenting obstacles; she successfully teaches at a school committed to beliefs that defy her own kindness and which creates in her character the will to endure. ... She leaves the school to marry, whereas Jane stays, but the trials of Lowood that both characters endure produce the pearl of perseverance that allows them to surpass hardships and achieve a bet...

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Eventually Jane is sent off to school, to lowood. ... Brocklehurst to all the children who live at Lowood. ... Brocklehurst always looked down upon the children at Lowood. ... Jane talked of rarely eating enough to stay energized, and how the school was poorly heated in the winter. ... At Lowood, Miss Temple is the image of a fairy godmother. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

How does Charlotte Bronte portray School and Childhood In the first Ten chapters Of Jane Eyre? ... Jane's chance to escape comes by going to school at Lowood. But even then Mrs Reed attempts to ruin her future at school before Jane has even started. ... The "rain fell in torrents- and the harsh conditions in school are matched by the harsh weather. ... Bronte uses her own experiences of life at boarding school to help describe Lowood and the evil, unpleasant people. ...

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Her experiences at Lowood School, Thornfield Hall, Moor house, and Ferndean ingeniously correspond with each stage of Jane's inner quest and development from an immature child to an intelligent and sophisticated woman. ... Due to the harsh treatment she was subject to by both her aunt and cousins, Jane had severe outbursts of retaliation, which resulted in her departure from Gateshead and enrollment at Lowood School. At Lowood, Jane met Helen Burns, a girl who becomes Jane's friend and first confidante. ... Jane decided to broaden her horizon after eight years of both attending a...

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In her childhood, she was mistreated and abused by her aunt and cousins, at Gateshead Manor, after her uncle died, and she also lived an impoverished life in a school called Lowood Institution, a type of charity school for girls. ... Soon after this incident, Jane is sent to a charity school for girls, called Lowood Institution. At this school there are many deprivations. ... The cruel master of Lowood, Mr. ... When a young girl had naturally curly hair at Lowood, he had it cut off. ...

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"Jane Eyre" Collage Jane left Thornfield to go to her first school, which was Lowood. ... Brocklehurst's greediness the school was left with no money and very poor conditions. Lowood was an all girl school and all the girls were very disciplined. ... While at school, Jane made friends but her best friend was Helen Burns. ... Jane spent all of her teen years at Lowood and was placed at Gateshead immediately after to start a whole new part of her life. ...

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(Bronte 30) Jane's next residence is at Lowood School. ... Brocklehurst is a pastor and the founder of Lowood. ... Miss Temple was a teacher at school. ... Helen Burns, an older student at school greatly influenced Jane's life at Lowood. ... Jane accepts the offer and leaves Lowood School to work at Thornfield Hall. ...

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Are Jane's experiences of Lowood all bad? ... Brockelhurst said that Lowood is a school were humility is a Christian grace peculiarly appropriate. ... Lowood is really a charity school maintained for female orphans, which means that the Reeds had paid nearly nothing to put Jane there. ... Jane's experience at Lowood School, where her dearest friend dies of tuberculosis, recalls the death of Charlotte's sisters at Cowan Bridge. ... Charlotte took revenge upon the school that treated her so poorly by using it as the basis for the fictional Lowood. ...

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Reed sent her to Lowood School. ... Jane spends eight years of her life at Lowood School, six of them as a student and two years as a teacher. After Miss Temple, Jane's favorite person at the school left, Jane saw no reason to stay at the school. ... There, Jane teaches school for St. ... So did Helen Burns, Jane's friend, at Lowood School. ...

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The school's headmaster is Mr. ... At Lowood, Jane befriends a young girl named Helen Burns, whose strong; martyr like attitude toward the school's miseries is both helpful and displeasing to Jane; after massive typhus epidemic sweeps Lowood Helen dies of consumption. ... Brocklehurst by attracting attention to the insalubrious conditions at Lowood. ... "Bronte's experience at the Clergy Daughter's School is similar to Jane's years at Lowood- (Magill, 298). The miseries of Cowan Bridge are indicated and indicated in the Lowood chapters of Jane Eyre, Mr. ...

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Miss Temple is the kind and fair-minded superintendent of Lowood School, who plays an important role in the emotional development of Jane Eyre. ... Throughout Jane's stay at Lowood, Miss Temple frequently demonstrates her human kindness and compassion for people. ... Brocklehurst announcing to the whole school that Jane is a liar, the reader becomes aware of Miss Temple's sense of natural justice, where before accepting what Mr. ... Whereas at Lowood Jane was treated with respect and as an equal by Miss Temple, and her desire to be loved and cared for was fulfilled by Miss T...

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He humiliates her in front of the whole school and makes her feel inferior. ... He makes Jane stand on the school for another half an hour and in this time she is "exposed" (P.66) to everyone but she is made to have more positive feelings from a girl who has passed her, Helen Burns who has "smiled" (P.67) at her. ... Scout also gets punished very early on, when she first starts school in September. ... He also arranges for Jane to be sent to school and indirectly helps her to escape from Gateshead. He knows that she is victimised but feels he cannot intervene, so he finds a way, by talking to...

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Jane was sent away from Gateshead Hall to a charity boarding school called Lowood. ... Lowood was a school formed to educate orphaned children. ... This was against school policy because the school was funded through charity and did not have a lot of money to support such expenses. ... Lowood also allowed Jane to mature into a young lady. ... After she graduated at Lowood she worked at the school for two years before accepting a job as a governess. ...

• Word Count: 1889
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• Grade Level: High School

The mantra that was repeatedly chanted by the Reed family and servants "you are a dependent" and "you are less than a servant" was em-bodied at the Lowood School (Bronte 7&17;). At Lowood the girls are strenuously trained to and stripped of their gender. ... Helen Burns attends the Lowood School and is continually mistreated, Jane is astonished to see her reactions towards the abuse because she turns the other cheek. ... This mentality is what not only gets Helen through each day at Lowood but is also passed to Jane. ... Mar-rying only for money and social status, having ...

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(Ch. 3) The Lowood School is a good representation of a charity school. ... Even though the health problems at Lowood were common there; the outbreak of typhus brought Lowood into the public eye where the living conditions at Lowood were found unacceptable. When the school was moved and Mr. ... When Jane recalls of the eight years between the passing of Helen Burns and her own leaving Lowood, she upholds the value of her education at Lowood; after Lowood's improvement: The school, thus improved, became in time a truly useful and noble institution, because of more money flow. ... Lowo...

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• Grade Level: High School

Jane is having a lot of problems with the Reed's and is then sent to Lowood, which is an all girls" school. At Lowood, Jane is taught to be poor and how to be useful to the rich. ... Instead of being told that she is going to school she demands Mrs. Reed to send her to school. ... Reed, with Jane being granted to move to Lowood and attend school. ...

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When Jane grew up and became a teacher at Lowood School, Bessie came to visit her. ... Jane finally got away from her hateful family and found temporary satisfaction with her life at Lowood School. Though the name Lowood suggested that Jane's teenage years would be somewhat of a disappointment, she enjoyed most of her time there until Miss Temple, the loving, kind superintendent at the school left to get married. ... As a result, Jane decided to depart from Lowood and become a governess at Thornfield Hall for a young girl, Adele Varens. ... During a visit with Jane at Lowood School, B...

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Then her aunt sends her away and she gets to Lowood Institution. The name of this school evokes in me a feeling of coldness as well as darkness. ... She can make her dream come true as well, establishing a school for girls. ... The most important scenes at Lowood also happen on cold, unfriendly days. However, I must admit that spring is mentioned in the Lowood chapters as well. ...

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At Lowood, Jane learns a lot; she learns more than just an education. ... The conditions at Lowood improve though. ... Jane is given a school to open. ... Bronte wrote about the school coming easy to her. ... Jane does not have to struggle to gain the school. ...

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This leads to Jane being locked up in the Red Room, which her uncle died in, and her transfer to Lowood, which is an institution for orphaned children. ... Through this violence, Jane then proceeds to Lowood. At Lowood she wins the friendship of everyone there, but her life is difficult because conditions are poor at the school. ... Here the violence of nature kills Jane's best friend at the school, Helen Burns, (pg. 96, Chapter 9, Volume 1),. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Similarly, At Lowood, Miss Temple becomes a substitute mother for Jane. ... Helen Burns is also an alternative family like relation for Jane in Lowood School. ... This could be a reference to Charlotte's sisters, who died young in the school. ... At the age of eight, Charlotte was sent to school with three of her sisters. During her time in school, she became imaginative and it resulted in Jane Eyre's stay at Lowood School, and the presenting Helen Burns, who dies at the school was a result of the deaths of Charlotte's two older sisters (Wendy & Craik, 1970,pp. 140-145). ...

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It deepens when she is shipped off to attend the Lowood charity boarding school. This renowned independence prompts her to leave Lowood and seek the job of a governess somewhere else. ... Finally her Aunt Reed ships off Jane to Lowood boarding school, which is a charity school for educating orphans, whose funding is paid for by subscriptions. ... On her way from Lowood to Thornfield, Jane runs into a man upon a horse, who states that she bewitched his horse when it fell. ...

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All of her wrong is touch and go when she is sent to Lowood. ... Besides, the life at Lowood leads her to more desire for a belonging because of "the cruel, hypocritical master of the Lowood School, Mr. ... Brocklehurst makes Lowood become a harsh and monotonic school which is totally different from what Jane thinks the school should be. ...

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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. ... Jane graduated first in her class and she stayed for another two years at Lowood as a teacher. ...

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• Grade Level: High School