by Jenn Weiss

Created on: May 06, 2008

Jane Eyre is a wonderful novel of deceit, romance, and pain. The novel starts out with Jane as a young orphan girl being raised by her aunt who was abusive, as was Jane's cousins. Jane's parents were killed in an accident of some sorts. Jane's dying uncle made his wife: Aunt Reed: promise to care for Jane after he died. Aunt Reed abused Jane and kept her locked in the room where Uncle Reed had died. Aunt Reed had thought she constantly lied and much more so she sent her to Lowood: an academy for girls.

The headmaster told the teachers and other children that Jane Eyre was a liar and not believe the things she said. The school didn't provide much from the young children, many of the died including Jane's best friend. Jane ended up living at the school for eight years; six as a student and then she stayed for two more as a teacher. She heard of a governess position with Mr. Rochester which she then takes. She moves in with him to teach his daughter, as time goes on Jane falls in love with him. Throughout her time at Rochester's home strange things occurred including his bedroom being caught on fire.

After several years Mr. Rochester asks Jane to marry him, to which she agrees. On the day of the wedding a man came and stopped the marriage. It was on that day that she found out Mr. Rochester had a horrible secret: He is already married to a mad woman named Bertha. Bertha in fact tricked Mr. Rochester into marring her, before he knew of her insanity. After that he kept her locked up in the attic, and she was in fact the one who caught his room on fire.

Jane then runs off away from the deceitful man she loved. Through her journey she gets horribly sick and is taken in by a pastor and his sisters. They soon find out that Jane had other relatives who leave her some money which she shares with the pastor and his sisters for taking care of her. The pastor and his sisters were amazed at Jane's amazing artistic talent. Not long after meeting the pastor asks Jane to marry him. As she considers his question she hers Mr. Rochesters voice on the wind calling out to her.

She returns to his home and finds out it has been burnt down by Bertha, who threw herself off the towers in a fit of insanity, which she always gets. She finds him once more and finds out he is now blind from the fire. She takes care of him and his eyesight slowly comes back.

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