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.