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Chapter1
Summary:
Jane Eyre was always
ill-
treated at Gateshead Hall where her aunt, Mrs.
Reed and her cousins-Eliza, John and Georgiana
lived. Once, she was reading on
the window-
seat behind a curtain. John came and drove her
away. To her anger,
she defended herself, but
her aunt came and commanded to lock her in the
red-room.
Feelings: I feel really bad for
Jane as a child at her age. Imagine if I were her
at
that time, I may give myself up and die
early. Even if facing such bad situation, she
still loved reading. I admire her very much.
Chapter2
Summary: Jane was dragged
away by two servants, Bessie and Miss Abbot, and
locked in the red-room. It was the place where
her Uncle Reed died. Thus, the
whole
atmosphere reminded her of ghosts. She couldn’t
stand it anymore and
passed out.
Feelings:
I can’t help feeling that Jane was suffering some
kind of mental disease
because her aunt and
cousins’ attitude towards her. Poor little child!
I hope some
time in the future it can be
healed.
Chapter3
Summary: The doctor
Mr. Lloyd came to see if Jane was OK. He asked her
whether she would like to go to school or not
and that was all. Meanwhile, Miss
Abbot told
Bessie about Jane. Her mother was Mr. Reed’s
sister. She married a
nearly penniless
clergyman, and her father was furious and had
nothing more to
do with her. They went away to
work among poor people, caught typhoid, and
died when Miss Jane was a baby, so she was
sent to Gateshead Hall. Bessie felt
sorry
after hearing these.
Feelings: Jane was sure
unfortunate, but to some extent, she was really
lucky. She
had someone like Bessie who cared
about her. I think Jane will start a new life at
school.
Chapter4
Summary: Jane
was introduced to a school’s headmaster Mr.
Brocklehurst. Her
aunt talked bad about her to
that tall, grim man, which means her school life
didn’t have a good beginning.
Feelings: I
just feel sick for Mrs. Reed’s behavior. One
cannot judge others no
matter what, let alone
she was Jane’s aunt. What she had done could
probably
destroy Jane’s whole life!
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Chapter5
Summary: Jane arrived at a school at Lowood.
The living condition there was
really poor.
Girls there only had a little food to eat and some
of it couldn’t be
called as “food”. But there
was a teacher called Miss Miller who cared about
the
girls, ordering extra bread and cheese for
them.
Feelings: I wonder why on earth there
was a school like that in the past. What
kind
of parents would send their children to hell on
earth? I am worried about
Jane right now.
Chapter6
Summary: Helen was a friend of
Jane when she was at school. There was a
teacher called Miss Scatcherd who was always
directed against Helen. She
scolded Helen
whenever she had a chance. But Helen was pretty
positive towards
these. She believed that
since life was short, we should be happy.
Feelings: Helen had a strong character as a
kid. I think that must due to her early
experience as an orphan. She could face
anything peacefully. Many adults can’t do
that
in my opinion.
Chapter7
Summary: Mr.
Brocklehurst announced to all the girls in the
school that Jane was
a liar and he warned them
against her. But Helen trusted her and gave her
courage.
Feelings: It’s rude to say bad
things about others no matter in front of them or
behind their backs. Mr. Brocklehurst’s
behavior can be really hurtful.
Chapter8
Summary: Miss Temple was another person who
chose to believe Jane. She
asked Mr. Lloyd
whether Jane’s side of story was true. As Mr.
Lloyd convinced
Jane’s word, Miss Temple
announced to the school that Jane was innocent of
Mr.
Brocklehurst’s charges against her.
Feelings: Miss Temple is that kind of person
who gives you a light of hope when
you are
truly down. It’s a great luck to have such a
person be your side and
support you. I think
Miss Temple will influence Jane throughout her
lifetime.
Chapter9
Summary: Typhoid
fever struck Lowood when spring came. Thus, many
of the
students were kept apart. Helen was
also ill, not typhoid but with consumption.
Knowing Helen might die soon, Jane couldn’t
help tiptoeing to the room Helen
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stayed in to be with
her as her last company. They spent a night
together and
Helen died in Jane’s arm during
her dream.
Feelings: Helen’s death was a great
loss for Jane in my opinion. But anyhow,
Helen’s spirit leaves a deep impression on me,
and I believe, on everyone who has
ever read
this book.
Chapter10
Summary: Soon
after the typhoid, there was an inquiry, which
brought to light
the truth about Lowood with
its wretched clothing, poor food, and bad
conditions. Lowood was put into the care of
kind and sensible trustees, and both
diet and
clothing improved. After six years of study there,
Jane became a teacher.
After her tutor both in
study and in life, Miss Temple, get married and
left, Jane
decided to leave as well. On her
last night at Lowood, Bessie visited her with her
son Bobby. She brought the news about
Gateshead to Jane.
Feelings: It’s time for
Jane to find a new place to go. She had been at
Lowood for
so many years and she should search
for some new opportunity and start a new
life
at Thornfield Hall.
Chapter11
Summary: On arriving at Thornfield Hall, Jane
met the house keeper Mrs. Fairfax
and her
student Adele whose guardian was Mr. Edward
Fairfax Rochester, who
was also the owner of
the house. She also met a solidly built servant
called Grace
Poole.
Feelings: I guess Jane
can live an at least comfortable life here at
Thornfield Hall
since nobody is after her.
Jane’s bright new life starts right now.
Chapter12
Summary: Jane met Mr. Rochester
on her way to post a letter. Mr. Rochester
sprained his ankle in the lane.
Feelings:
It’s a pretty strange way to meet your employer
the first time like that.
I bet there would be
interesting stories between them.
Chapter13
Summary: Adele was having a lot
of trouble concentrating when she knows Mr.
Rochester was downstairs—she kept trying to
sneak downstairs to see him or to
guess what
presented he might have brought her. Mr. Rochester
and Jane talked
about Jane’s early experiences
and Mr. Rochester called Jane as elf. Thus, Jane
considered Mr. Rochester changeful and abrupt.
Feelings: I kind of feel the same as Jane did.
How could an almost stranger say
such rude
thing during our first chat? If I were Jane, I
might be really angry.
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Chapter14
Summary: One evening,
Rochester sent for Jane and Adele after dinner.
Suddenly,
because she was staring at him,
Rochester asked Jane if she thought he’s
handsome. Without thinking, she gave an honest
answer: no. Rochester told her
that he’s
feeling chatty tonight, and ordered Jane to chat
with him about
something. While Jane and
Rochester had been talking, Adele had run out to
try
on one of the dresses that were among her
new presents from Rochester. When
she comes
back and frolics around in the dress, she looks
just like her mother.
Feelings: I don’t know
why but I just feel that the whole conversation
between
them is super intense and kind of
awkward to me...
Chapter15
Summary:
One day when Mr. Rochester and Jane were wandering
in the garden,
Mr. Rochester talked about
Adele’s mother, Celine Varens. That evening, Jane
finds Rochester asleep in his bed with the
curtains and his bedclothes on fire, and
she
puts out the flames and rescues him.
Feelings:
I feel like the relationship between Jane and Mr.
Rochester is changing-I
see something about
love.
Chapter16
Summary: Mrs. Fairfax
told Jane that Mr. Rochester was taking a trip to
Mr.
Eshton’s house which was filled with girls
who were fond of Mr. Rochester,
especially
Blanche Ingram, Lord Ingram’s daughter. After
hearing this, Jane was
pretty sure that Mr.
Rochester would not be with her no matter what, so
she
became really sad.
Feelings: I don’t
think Mr. Rochester is that kind of guy who only
cares about
money and beauty to be honest. And
if he has feelings for Jane, he may marry her.
Chapter17
Summary: Everyone spends
the three days making frantic preparations for all
the guests. When they rode up, some in
carriages and some on horses, a beautiful
woman in a purple dress was riding beside
Rochester. It’s Blanche Ingram! The
visitors
enter, and Jane sat with Adele, half-listening to
their noise and trying to
keep Adele from
running down and bothering them. Blanche and
Rochester sang
a song, and Jane wanted to
leave, but she’s mesmerized by Rochester’s voice.
As
soon as he finished, she slipped out into
the hallway. Rochester came out after
Jane and
asked why she didn’t come and talk to him in the
drawing room. He
wanted her to come back, but
he could tell she’s about to cry, so he let her
go.
Feelings: Now I am more than sure that
Jane was in love with Mr. Rochester
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completely. It’s
obvious that Miss Blanche’s heart is not as
beautiful as her
appearance, so basically Mr.
Rochester won’t choose her over Jane.
Chapter18
Summary: With Rochester absent,
a stranger arrived at Thornfield. The stranger,
whose name was Mason, claimed to be an old
friend of Mr. Rochester’s. Later that
day, a
strange gypsy woman arrived, offering to tell
their fortunes. Blanche
Ingram went first.
Everyone waited excitedly for her to come back and
tell them
what the woman said, but when she
did come back she said the woman was
obviously
a fraud. The servant, Sam, told Jane that the
gypsy woman said she
knew there’s another
single woman in the group, and that she thought
that must
mean her. Jane’s curious about the
woman, so she went to see her and had her
own
fortune told.
Feelings: Though I wonder who
Mason was, I’m more excited about the story
between Jane and that “gypsy woman”. It could
be really interesting!
Chapter19
Summary: Jane entered the library and saw the
old gypsy woman reading a
prayer-book by the
fire. Her hat and handkerchief threw shadows over
her face.
The gypsy asked Jane about Mr.
Rochester, and when she didn’t say much in
response, the gypsy suggested that Mr.
Rochester was in love with Blanche
Ingram.
Jane admitted that the rumor was that Rochester
and Blanche were
engaged, but corrected the
woman on one thing—they were not in love. In a
moment, the woman’s voice changed—the old
gypsy woman was Mr. Rochester
in disguise, and
he’s just been messing with everyone. She told him
about
Mason’s arrival, and he’s so horrified
that he couldn’t even stand up anymore.
Then,
Jane called Mason to meet Mr. Rochester in the
room.
Feelings: From this chapter, I’m happy
to see that Mr. Rochester loved Jane too
and
he wanted to see if Jane had the same feelings as
he did. From our point of
view, they both love
each other more than anything. However, Mr.
Rochester’s
behavior shows that Mason’s
presence means something terrible has happened,
or will happen.
Chapter20
Summary: Everyone in the house is woken up by
all the noise. The guests
stumble around in
the corridor in their robes, but nobody seems to
know what’s
going on. Jane gets dressed, then
sits by the window waiting. Mr. Rochester
knocks on her door and asks her to come with
him. He sends Jane back to get a
sponge and
some salts. Rochester tells Jane to stay with
Mason and to make sure
he stays awake, but not
to talk to him at all for any reason. He gives her
the
sponge, which is bloody now, so that she
can tend to the wound a little, too. For a
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long time, Jane
stays there, wiping blood, trying to keep him
conscious. Rochester
says that he warned
Mason, and Mason should have listened. Mason says
he
thought he could have done something to
make things better. While Mason is
sent away,
Rochester and Jane are left alone together outside
the house, and he
asks her to walk with him in
the woods as the sun is rising before they go back
to
Thornfield Hall.
Feelings: Mason is
bitten by somebody! Who on earth he is? Why he
comes to
Thornfield? Who is the person that
bites Mason? What’s their relationship with
Mr. Rochester? There are still lots of answers
to be found.
Chapter21
Summary: One
afternoon, Jane is visited by Mr. Reed’s coachman.
He tells Jane
that John Reed is dead and that
Mrs. Reed had a stroke when she heard. Jane goes
in to see Mrs. Reed, who is lying ill in bed.
Mrs. Reed is still harsh and
bad-tempered, but
she does want Jane to stay so that they can talk
things over. As
she’s dying, Mrs. Reed
apologizes to Jane for concealing a letter from
Jane’s uncle,
John Eyre, which came three
years ago. Mrs. Reed lets Jane read the letter, in
which John asked where Jane was so that he
could write a will making her the
heir of his
fortune when he died. Then Mrs. Reed admits
something else: she
wrote to John Eyre and
told him Jane died of typhoid at Lowood.
Feelings: Mrs. Reed’s behavior crossed the
line. No matter what she has no right
to
conceal Jane’s letter from her uncle. She could
treat Jane badly, but when
somebody else wants
to treat her like his own child, she just robbed
her chance
away? That’s not what elder people
should do to her child.
Chapter22
Summary: Jane goes back to Thornfield. During
the next two weeks, it’s pretty
quiet and
seems like Mr. Rochester is busy preparing his
wedding with Blanche
Ingram.
Feelings:
Sometimes things are not like what it seems to be.
I’m sure it is Jane
who Mr. Rochester really
loves and the bride is going to be Jane instead of
Blanche Ingram.
Chapter23
Summary: Rochester asks Jane to walk with him.
Jane and Rochester sit on the
bench under the
chestnut tree. Rochester asks her to marry him.
And of course,
Jane agrees.
Feelings:
Looks like what I guess finally comes true. But
everything is just way
too perfect…
Chapter24
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Summary: The next morning, Jane is blissfully
happy and wonders if this is all a
dream.
Rochester starts telling Jane about all the fancy
jewelry and clothes he’s
going to give her.
She looks him in the eye, and tells him that, if
he keeps decking
her out in expensive clothes
and jewelry and behaving so badly about it, she’ll
never wear anything he buys her.
Feelings:
The dialogues between them are cute and full of
sweetness. They could
have a successful
marriage.
Chapter25
Summary: The
previous evening, Jane went to bed, but couldn’t
sleep. She
thought she could hear a weird
howling sound in the wind. When Jane woke up,
there was a burning candle on the table in her
room. Then Jane noticed that her
closet door
was open and someone was messing with her wedding
dress and veil.
Jane sat up in bed, shocked:
the woman wasn’t anyone she knew at Thornfield,
but someone else, a stranger. The stranger was
a tall woman with long, dark hair
dressed in
white; her face was disturbing, with bloodshot red
eyes, swollen, dark
lips, and thick black
eyebrows. The strange woman was wearing Jane’s
wedding
veil, and, as Jane watched, the woman
pulled it off, tore it in half, and trampled on
it. Jane asks Mr. Rochester who the woman is.
Rochester says that she imagined
this
nightmarish creature. Jane’s not really satisfied
with this explanation, but
she pretends to be
to make Rochester feel better.
Feelings: It
could be a nightmare even if in dreams, let alone
it real happens.
That strange woman might be
somebody who has a special and interesting
identity.
Chapter26
Summary: It's
the day of Jane and Rochester's wedding. It should
be the happiest
day of Jane's life, but during
the church ceremony two men show up claiming that
Rochester is already married. Mrs. Rochester
is Bertha Mason, the
in the attic
own
brother, and who’s been doing other creepy things
at night. Rochester was
tricked into marrying
Bertha fifteen years ago in Jamaica. Rochester
claims that
he’s not really married because
his relationship with Bertha isn’t a real
marriage.
He wants Jane to go and live with
him in France, where they can pretend to be a
married couple and act like husband and wife.
Jane refuses to be his next
mistress and runs
away before she’s tempted to agree.
Feelings:
What a mess! I bet that’s not what Mr. Rochester
wants and also not
what Jane wants. Actually,
none of them did anything wrong, but life is life.
Chapter27
Summary: Jane stays in her
room for most of the day with a debate raging in
her
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head:
does she really have to leave Thornfield?
Rochester wants Jane to go with
him to France
and live with him in a villa there as his
that
he’s not really married and that Jane would
basically be his wife, not his
mistress. Jane
realizes that what matters most is her own respect
for herself, and
that it’s even more important
for her to cling to her principles at this
difficult
moment. Jane wakes up early and
packs a few small things, leaving all the
presents Rochester bought her.
Feelings:
God bless Jane! Hope she has made the right choice
and will start a new
life somewhere else.
Chapter28
Summary: Jane travels in a
random direction away from Thornfield. Having no
money, she almost starves to death before
being taken in by the Rivers family,
who live
at Moor House near a town called Morton.
Feelings: Jane is not that lucky, she never
made it to live a happy life she wants.
But
she is lucky, too. She has got some warm-hearted
people who are willing to
help when she is in
danger. I don’t know how to express that, but it’s
sad to know
life isn’t easy at all.
Chapter29
Summary: The Rivers
siblings—Diana, Mary, and St. John—are about
Jane’s age
and well-educated, but somewhat
poor. They take whole-heartedly to Jane, who
has taken the pseudonym
Feelings: Jane
has friends at her own age right now. They could
get along with
each other well.
Chapter30
Summary: Jane wants to earn her
keep, so St. John arranges for her to become
the teacher in a village girls’ school. St.
John gets a letter stating that the Rivers’
Uncle John is dead. Jane watches as all the
members of the Rivers family behave
somewhat
strangely about this—they’re not exactly sad;
she’s not sure what
they’re feeling. St. John
explains that their uncle had argued with their
father long
before, and that he had a fortune
of twenty thousand pounds, but decided to
leave all the money to another relative.
Feelings: Well, Jane has an uncle whose name
is John, and the Rivers happens to
have an
Uncle John too? That’s definitely not a
coincidence. The truth is that the
Rivers are
actually Jane’s cousin! She has her family right
now!
Chapter31
Summary: Jane moves
into her little cottage, which is simple but
adequate. St.
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John tells her about his own experience—a year
ago, he thought that he hated
being a priest,
but then he felt called by God to become a
missionary. A young
woman comes up and wishes
St. John good evening. St. John completely freaks
out for a moment, but then calms himself down
and turns to talk to her. Jane
notices how
beautiful the woman is. It turns out that this is
Miss Rosamond
Oliver, the daughter of the man
who’s paying Jane’s salary. Miss Oliver says
she’ll
come and help Jane out at the school
sometimes. Miss Oliver tries to talk to St.
John about normal things like a recent dance,
but St. John is cold and
disapproving.
Feelings: I do think St. John is like that
kind of crazy man who knows nothing but
hi
work. He may do harm to Jane.
Chapter32
Summary: On a school holiday, Jane is sitting
alone at home, finishing the picture
of
Rosamond Oliver, when St. John drops by to bring
her a new book to read.
When he sees the
portrait, he becomes disturbed. Jane asks St. John
about the
portrait for a bit, and eventually
he admits that he knows it’s of Rosamond. She
offers to make a copy for him—if he will admit
that he wants one. St. John admits
that he
wants a copy of the picture, but says that it
wouldn’t be good for him to
have it. St. John
pulls a piece of scrap paper over the portrait so
that he doesn’t
have to look at it anymore—and
then he sees something on the paper that really
surprises him. Jane can’t figure out what it
is, but he tears off a piece and keeps it.
Feelings: Clearly Rosamond Oliver and St. John
love each other. So I think it’s not
worthy of
giving up their love and insisting on choosing a
missionary’s wife.
Chapter33
Summary:
St. John arrives, even though he had to struggle
through the snow. He
won’t tell her why he’s
there, and he’s behaving really strangely. She
starts to
worry that he might be a little bit
insane. It comes out that Diana, Mary, and St.
John are all Jane’s cousins! When Jane’s Uncle
Mr. Eyre dies and leaves his fortune
to Jane,
she shares her inheritance with the other three.
Feelings: Jane hadn’t had the feeling of being
with true families since she was
sent to
Gateshead Hall. I’m so happy for her that she
finally finds a real home for
her.
Chapter34
Summary: St. John wants to be
more than Jane’s cousin. He admires Jane’s work
ethic and asks her to marry him, learn
Hindustani, and go with him to India on a
long-term missionary trip. Jane refuses
because she knows she doesn’t love St.
John.
Jane offers to go to India with him, but just as
his cousin and co-worker, not
as his wife. St.
John won't give up and keeps pressuring Jane to
marry him.
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Feelings: I still can’t understand St. John’s
insane behavior. Things end up like
nobody is
happy.
Chapter35
Summary: Just as
Jane’s about to give in, she supernaturally hears
Mr.
Rochester’s voice calling her name from
somewhere far away.
Feelings: I know Jane is
meant to be Mr. Rochester’s wife. Even if they are
so far
away from each other, they can still
hear the other’s voice through their heart.
Chapter36
Summary: Jane arranges a journey
back to Thornfield. Jane comes up toward
Thornfield walking along the wall of the
orchard. She peeks out from around a
corner of
the wall... and sees a complete ruin. It’s burned
down, blackened and
collapsed. Shocked, Jane
goes back to the inn and asks the host what
happened.
From him she learns the whole story
of what happened: Bertha burned down the
house
in the middle of the night by setting fire to what
used to be Jane’s own bed.
Rochester saved the
servants and then climbed up to a high wall where
Bertha
was standing to try to rescue her, but
she jumped off and committed suicide.
Rochester was blinded and lost a hand when the
wall collapsed. Jane asks where
Rochester is
now, and the innkeeper tells her that he’s at his
other home,
Ferndean. Jane arranges to go
there in a chaise right away.
Feelings: Oh!
Mr. Rochester is disabled right now. I couldn’t
help thinking if Jane
didn’t leave Thornfield,
Mr. Rochester won’t lose his sight and his hand,
and they
could have live a happy life right
now. Is Jane’s decision to leave wrong? It’s not
obviously. Maybe that’s what life is like,
full of strange combinations of
circumstances.
Chapter37
Summary: Jane goes to
Ferndean to find Rochester. When she comes up to
the
house, she sees him coming out and watches
him for a long time without letting
him know
she’s there. Jane offers to be Rochester’s nurse
or housekeeper,
convinced that he will
immediately ask her to marry him again, but he
doesn’t.
Jane insists that Rochester eat
supper, which he usually doesn’t. In the morning,
Jane comes down to breakfast, and then takes
Rochester outside so they can
stroll in the
wood and meadows. They sit down in a dry place and
Rochester asks
Jane to tell him where she’s
been and what’s happened to her. Rochester laments
his blindness and lost hand, but asks Jane to
marry him anyway. She accepts
gladly.
Rochester also tells Jane that, four days before,
between eleven and twelve
at night, he called
her name three times frantically—and he heard her
respond.
He thinks that perhaps they met in
spirit. Jane doesn’t tell Rochester that she
heard him call her name and responded to him
while she was sitting, miles away,
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with St. John.
Feelings: Just like “No matter the ending is
perfect or not, you cannot disappear
from my
world.” Even though Mr. Rochester loses something,
he gains love and
that’s the most important
thing for him. The story finally comes down to
this
point and I just wish they can be happy
together..
Chapter38
Summary: They
have a quiet wedding, and after two years of
marriage Rochester
gradually gets his sight
back. They also have a son.
Feelings: What can
I say right now? I’m just honored to see such a
romantic life
experience of Jane Eyre, who is
that kind of women I admire.
Question1
Mr. Rochester asked Jane Eyre
twice to marry him. (In Chapter23 and
Chapter37) Jane agreed to both but the first
time they didn’t get married
successfully
because Jane knew about Mr. Rochester had already
been married
during their wedding. I think the
reason why Jane chose to marry to Mr.
Rochester even if he lost one of his hands and
got blind was when she was away
from Mr.
Rochester at the Moor House, she realized she
really cared about and
was deeply in love with
him. This time she chose to follow her heart
instead of
others’ words or judgments. Where
there is great love, there are always miracles.
Question2
Turning point No.1: when
Mrs. Reed sent her to Lowood
Turning point
No.2: when Jane met Helen and Temple at Lowood
Turning point No.3: when she left Lowood and
started to teach at Thornfield
Hall
Turning point No.4: when she fall in love with Mr.
Rochester
Turning point No.5: when she knew
Mr. Rochester had already been married
and
decided to leave Thornfield Hall
Turning
point No.6: when she found the Moor House as a
shelter
Turning point No.7: when she noticed
her friends was also her family
Turning
point No.8: when she returned to find Mr.
Rochester
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