The End

Today I finished the book, I enjoyed reading Jane Eyre. This is what happened during the remainder of the book:
Jane wiped the blood and took care of Mr. Mason, until Mr. Rochester returns with the surgeon. While Mr. Rochester and the surgeon are looking at Mr. Mason, Jane is sent on various errands to help Mr. Rochester. Soon Mr. Mason is fixed and sent away by Mr. Rochester. Once Mr. Mason is gone, Mr. Rochester walks with Jane in the orchard. Jane starts to fall in love with Mr. Rochester, but is upset because she thinks that he is going to marry Miss Ingram. At the start of the next chapter, a coachman arrives and tells Jane that her Aunt Reed was ill, after suffering a stroke, and wanted to speak with her. Jane tells Mr. Rochester that she will have to go and see her Aunt, and he tells her that she can go as long as she promises that she will return.
One day while Jane is at Gateshead, her Aunt gives her a letter from Mr. Eyre, Jane’s uncle. Jane was so excited that she actually had family, a family that wanted her; this letter was three years old, though. About a month after Jane’s Aunt died, Jane finally went back to Thornfield. Jane was unhappy that she had to stay away so long and was glad to return to Mr. Rochester. To her surprise, as she walks from the station at Millcote, Jane encounters Mr. Rochester. When he asks her why she has stayed away from Thornfield so long, she replies, still a bit bewildered, “I have been with my aunt, sir, who is dead.” Mr. Rochester asks Jane whether she has heard about his new carriage, and he tells her: “You must see the carriage, Jane, and tell me if you don’t think it will suit Mrs. Rochester exactly.” Jane was very disappointed that Mr. Rochester was going to be married.
After a blissful two weeks, Jane encounters Mr. Rochester in the gardens. He invites her to walk with him, and Jane, caught off guard, accepts. Mr. Rochester confides that he has finally decided to marry Blanche Ingram and tells Jane that he knows of an available governess position in Ireland that she could take. Jane expresses her distress at the great distance that separates Ireland from Thornfield. Jane confesses her love for Mr. Rochester, and to her surprise, he asks her to be his wife. She suspects that he is teasing her, but he convinces her otherwise by admitting that he only brought up marrying Blanche in order to arouse Jane’s jealousy.
Preparations for Jane and Mr. Rochester’s wedding do not run smoothly. Mrs. Fairfax treats Jane coldly because she doesn’t realize that Jane was already engaged to Mr. Rochester when she allowed him to kiss her. But even after she learns the truth, Mrs. Fairfax maintains her disapproval of the marriage. The night before her wedding, Jane waits for Mr. Rochester, who has left Thornfield for the evening. She grows restless and takes a walk in the orchard, where she sees the now-split chestnut tree. When Mr. Rochester arrives, Jane tells him about strange events that have occurred in his absence. The preceding evening, Jane’s wedding dress arrived, and underneath it was an expensive veil—Mr. Rochester’s wedding gift to Jane.
The day of the wedding Jane notes a pair of strangers reading the headstones in the churchyard cemetery. When Jane and Mr. Rochester enter the church, the two strangers are also present. When the priest asks if anyone objects to the ceremony, one of the strangers answers: “The marriage cannot go on: I declare the existence of an impediment.” Mr. Rochester attempts to proceed with the ceremony, but the stranger explains that Mr. Rochester is already married—his wife is a Creole woman whom Mr. Rochester wed fifteen years earlier in Jamaica. He produces a signed letter from Richard Mason affirming that Mr. Rochester is married to Mason’s sister, Bertha. Mr. Mason himself then steps forward to corroborate the story.
After falling asleep for a short while, Jane awakes to the realization that she must leave Thornfield. When she steps out of her room, she finds Mr. Rochester waiting in a chair on the threshold. To Mr. Rochester’s assurances that he never meant to wound her, and to his pleas of forgiveness, Jane is silent, although she confides to the reader that she forgave him on the spot. Mr. Rochester realizes that he must explain why he does not consider himself married, and he launches into the story of his past.
Riding in a coach, Jane quickly exhausts her meager money supply and is forced to sleep outdoors. She spends much of the night in prayer, and the following day she begs for food or a job in the nearby town. Through the window, Jane sees two young women studying German while their servant knits. From their conversation Jane learns that the servant is named Hannah and that the graceful young women are Diana and Mary. The three women are waiting for someone named St. John. Jane knocks on the door, but Hannah refuses to let her in. Collapsing on the doorstep in anguish and weakness, Jane cries, “I can but die, and I believe in God. Let me try to wait His will in silence.” A voice answers, “All men must die, but all are not condemned to meet a lingering and premature doom, such as yours would be if you perished here of want,” this voice was that of St. John. Jane enters the house with him and ends up staying a long time at the house, while she recovers. Jane befriends Diana and Mary, who admire her drawings and give her books to read.
After she leaves Diana and Mary’s house Jane, goes to an inn called the Rochester Arms to learn what has happened. Here, she learns that Bertha Mason set the house ablaze several months earlier. Mr. Rochester saved his servants and tried to save his wife, but she flung herself from the roof as the fire raged around her. In the fire, Mr. Rochester lost a hand and went blind. He has taken up residence in a house called Ferndean, located deep in the forest, with John and Mary, two elderly servants. Jane goes to Ferndean. From a distance, she sees Mr. Rochester reaches a hand out of the door, testing for rain. Jane goes in and John tells her that Mr. Rochester will see no one unless they tell him their name. Jane decides to go into the room and pretends to be Mary but doesn’t say much to Mr. Rochester. When he realizes that Jane is in the room with him, he thinks she must be a ghost or spirit speaking to him. When he catches her hand, he takes her in his arms, and she promises never to leave him. The next morning they walk through the woods, and Jane tells Rochester about her experiences the previous year. She has to assure him that she is not in love with St. John. He asks her again to marry him, and she says yes.
This was how the story ended. Jane and Mr. Rochester ended up getting married. Even though he was blind Jane loved him as much as she did when they were together before. Jane decided to visit Adela at the school that Mr. Rochester sent her to and sees that she was unhappy, so she brings her home to live with her and Mr. Rochester. Jane writes, to Mary and Diana, that she is narrating her story after ten years of marriage to Rochester, which she describes as inexpressibly heavenly. They live as equals, and she helps him to cope with his blindness. After two years, Rochester begins to regain his vision in one eye, and when their first child—a boy—was born, Rochester was able to see the baby.

Jane Eyre

Jane has been to many nightly dinners with Mr. Rochester and his guests. One day, when Mr. Rochester is "away," a fortune teller shows up to the house and asks for all the single young ladies one at a time to read their fortunes. Jane is the last girl to go and see the fortune teller. Jane was not nervous or scared to go and get her fortune read, she was actually excited to have it done. While Jane is out getting her fortune read, a Mr. Mason arrives at Thornfield, he is a strange fellow who tells all the people that he is an old friend of Mr. Rochester's and that he is going to stay at the house until Mr. Rochester returns from his journey. As the fortune teller says Jane's fortune her voice deepens and Jane discovers that the fortune teller is actually Mr. Rochester. Jane tells Mr. Rochester that Mr. Mason had arrived and Mr. Rochester becomes worried. That same night Jane is awoken by a scream in the night. Jane goes out into the hallway, with everyone else, and Mr. Rochester tells everyone that it was just one of the servants having a bad dream. Soon everyone returns to bed except Jane, who returns to her room and gets dressed. Soon after Jane is sure everyone is back to sleep Mr. Rochester knocks on her door and brings her up to the room where Mr. Mason was sleeping. Mr. Mason had been stabbed and so Jane stayed there to wipe the blood while Mr. Rochester went to get the surgeon. Mr. Rochester tells Jane that it is very important that Mr. Mason doesn't speak. Having said this to Jane Mr. Rochester leaves and Jane is left alone with Mr. Mason.

Jane Eyre (middle)

Jane and Mr. Rochester talk about various things. For example, he asks her about her family, she tells him that she has none, although she has an Aunt Reed. Jane admires Mr. Rochester and she is upset when he leaves and brings back guests. Jane feels that the guests, who are women, are better looking and she is very jealous.
Miss Adela gets a present from Mr. Rochester, who we find out is Adela’s father. He doesn’t really love Adela, so Jane acts as a mother to her.

Jane Eyre (Beginning cont.)

In Jane Eyre, after Jane meets her pupil, things start to become a routine for Jane. She teaches Miss Adela during the mornings and in the afternoons she has free time to do what she wishes. A majority of the time she goes into the attic and looks around at the trees and flowers. Jane likes to look at things and imagine that there are fairies doing magical things. One day, when Miss Adela is sick, Jane decides that she is going to go in to the town of Hay to deliver a letter for Mrs. Fairfax. On her way there Jane encounters a stranger, who falls off his horse. Jane helps the man back on to his horse and the man heads off to Thornfield Hall to meet Mr. Rochester, or at least this is what Jane thinks. When Jane returns to Thornfield Hall she finds out from Mrs. Fairfax that the man was Mr. Rochester himself. Mr. Rochester doesn’t visit that often and Jane had never met him until when he fell off his horse, although she didn’t know it at the time.

Jane Eyre (beginning)

A few days ago I was assigned to do an independent reading assignment in English. I chose the book Jane Eyre. In the book many events have taken place. Jane Eyre is ten in the beginning of the book and is not loved by her Aunt Reed and her Aunt’s children. For example, in the beginning of the book Jane gets caught hiding behind a curtain reading, by her cousin John Reed. John Reed is a mean boy who is always finding reasons to yell at Jane. When he finds her behind the curtain reading he takes the book away from her. Then he proceeds to throw the book at her, causing her to fall and hit her head on the door handle cutting it open. Jane gets so mad that she “attacks” John. This makes her Aunt Reed lock her up in the Red Room. This is the room where Jane’s uncle died. Jane ends up getting frightened and has a fit. Her Aunt Reed calls in an apothecary, Mr. Lloyd to look at Jane and to try and get some answers about why she “attacked” John. Soon after Mr. Lloyd looks at her, Aunt Reed sends for Mr. Brocklehurst, the owner of Lowood School. Aunt Reed wants to send Jane away to Lowood to get rid of her. When Jane arrives at Lowood it is rainy, windy, and dark out and she is fed and sent strait to bed. Jane goes to her classes the next day and is immediately moved into a higher class. Soon after arriving at Lowood Jane meets Helen Burns, a girl who is older and wiser than Jane, in the garden reading. Helen and Jane soon become good friends. Miss Temple, one of the teachers and the superintendent, decides one day to give the girls bread and cheese after the breakfast of the day was disgusting. After Jane is at Lowood for 3 months, Mr. Brocklehurst visits and humiliates Jane in front of the whole school, calling her a liar and saying that she is a bad child. After the winter had ended the 45 of the 80 girls at the school became sick with Typhoid. Many of the girls died, this was due to semi-starvation and neglected colds. One night Helen was very sick, so Jane visited her, she was staying in Miss Temple’s room. This was the night that Helen died. Eight years after Jane’s arrival Miss Temple gets married and leaves Lowood. This upsets Jane very much. Jane spends eight years total in Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher before she puts an advertisement in the Herold and Mrs. Fair fax writes back and says that Jane could be a governess at Thornfield. Jane was only 18 years old and she was willing to teach a student 14 or younger. Jane decided to take the job at Thornfield and receives thirty pound a year instead of the fifteen pounds at Lowood. This is where Jane meets her pupil Miss Adela. Miss Adela is French and is only ten years old. This is as far as I have gotten for now.