... , and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation. No; I should not like to belong to poor people, was my reply."" (Ch. 3) The Lowood School is a good representation of a charity school. Jane's horror at the harsh punishments at Lowood is meant to prompt similar reactions in the reader. Jane 4 at first thinks she could not bear such punishment and is mortified when she ... to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."" (Ch. 6). Even though the health problems at Lowood were common there; the outbreak of typhus brought Lowood into the public eye where the liv...

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... say the very thought of you makes me sick ." (Bronte 30) Jane's next residence is at Lowood School. She is very excited to be leaving Gateshead and going to school. Mr. Brocklehurst is a pastor and the founder of Lowood. He humiliates Jane in front of the whole school after he hears horrible things about her from Mrs. Reed. This causes Jane a great deal of distress ... she was free of every impunity. Miss Temple treated Jane very kindly and she was her favorite teacher. Helen Burns, an older student at school greatly influenced Jane's life at Lowood. Helen was one of Jane's closest frie...

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... . Reed decides to send Jane there after the doctor, Mr. Lloyd, advised her that Jane should attend a boarding school to control her temper. However, despite the poor conditions, in Lowood, Jane began to feel accepted. Miss. Temple, who runs the school, and Helen Burns, a fellow classmate, helped her become a stronger person. Helen taught her to not worry much about what others think of ... her. Lowood was a school formed to educate orphaned children. Jane described the people as plain because, compared to what she was used to, they, " All with plain locks combed from their faces, not a c...

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... that gets blamed, even if she had no part in it. Eventually Jane is sent off to school, to lowood. Here there is another example of a stepfamily, Mr. Brocklehurst to all the children who live at Lowood. Mr. Brocklehurst always looked down upon the children at Lowood. He only let them have bare minimum supplies needed to survive. Jane talked of rarely eating enough ... to stay energized, and how the school was poorly heated in the winter. Mr. Brocklehurst would humiliate the girls at ... Lowood by bringing in his family. His family was always well dressed and proper looking compared to ...

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... with their constant vindictiveness, but when the opportunity to leave is presented to her, she takes it. Mr. Brocklehurst, from Lowood School, comes to speak to Jane about attending his school. When Mrs. Reed asks is she can send Jane to him Mr. Brocklehurst decides that Jane is worthy of attending, ... she experienced and was put through at Gateshead. Unfortunately this is not the case, as being at Lowood School is just as difficult and demanding. Jane struggles against the harsh conditions at Lowood, and despite her talent, self-assurance and intelligence Jane is constantly reminded th...

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... like returning to John's home, even into adulthood. Jane could never love the cousin who tortured her as a child. Jane faces degradation while at Lowood. Mr. Brocklehurst tries to publicly humiliate her. He says to the entire school, "You must be on your guard against her shun her example avoid her company, exclude her from your sports shut her out from your ... Brahma and kneels before Juggernaut- this girl is- a liar!- (67). The thought of being worse than a "heathen- is degrading in a religious school, and Mr. Brocklehurst attempts to make the teachers and students of Lowood "shun he...

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... " Collage Jane left Thornfield to go to her first school, which was Lowood. Mrs. Reed really sent Jane there to get her out of her house. Mr. Brocklehurst was the tall, scary man who came to Thornfield to tell Jane about the school and also to scare her a little bit. Mr. Brocklehurst was the school treasurer, who actually ended up pocketing the money that ... parents paid to send their child there. Yet, no one else knew that. Due to Mr. 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 disciplin...

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... child of the devil, but could there be more to her life then what it was? At the age of ten, Jane was taken away from Gateshed and sent to Lowood School, a charity institution for orphan girls. There she made one friend named Helen and shortly after Helen died of a typhus epidemic. Jane remained at the ... Lowood school and quickly becomes a star student and, and after six years of hard work, an effective teacher. After two years of teaching at Lowood, Jane is ready for new challenges. She places an advertisement for a governess position in the local newspaper and she ... ...

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... to Jane turning her into what they have both become. This was because Jane was raised in a strict boarding school and it becomes apparent why she is attracted to St. John and his Christian-like ways. Yet her inexperience with love due to Lowood always causes her to be attracted to Rochester. In an example, Rochester asks Jane, "am I cruel in my ... adventure. Jane chooses to stay with Rochester and start a beautiful life together as she had always planned to do. As she is married to Rochester Jane sends Adele off to school in order to get rid of her French heritage. The reader can find ...

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