Jane eyre #10

In Chapter 21 Jane struggles with sleeping due to dreams of children and her childhood, than she finds out Mrs. Reed is becoming very ill because her son (Jane's cousin) dies, and wants she would like to see her. Jane is willing to work everything out between her and Mrs. Reed, she figures out why their was so much rage towards Jane. Mrs. Reed's husband like his niece Jane more than he liked his own children and that upset Mrs. Reed, he also liked Jane's mother. Once they were gone all of that anger was taken out on young Jane, which is extremely wrong and harsh. Jane is very helpful with her cousins after their Mrs. Reed dies, she keeps them entertained and busy. I think Jane did this because even though none of them where nice to her, she knew what it felt like to be an orphan and mistreated. She finds a note Mr. Reed wrote three years before to Jane, Mrs. Reed gave it to Jane right before she died, she never fully worked things out with Jane before she died. In Chapter 23 when the proposal occurs Jane at first declines because she does not believe him. This just shows even with an tough outside, she really does have her past with her and has a hard time trusting people. Jane finally does accept and Rochester decides that society will not effect their marriage, which is rare in their time period. I think that having tree being split by lighting is very symbolic, I think it stands for multiple things, one thing I think it stands for is that everything in their pasts will be erased when they are together. I also think that it symbolizes that they are going to break and bend all of the rules that society has set for them. I think Jane writes to her uncle John Eyre about her impending marriage, because he is all she has and she wants to tell someone in her family, so she chose him and she wants to make someone proud.