Jane Eyre 2

Caitlin Doherty
Jane Eyre 2


In the first four chapters I found out a lot about Jane Eyre. She is ten years old and an orphan living with her cruel aunt and cousins. The story starts with Jane coming in from a walk on a winter day and seeing her aunt and cousins sitting around the fire together. Then her aunt tells her to leave until she can speak and act right. Jane not knowing what she has done to be punished leaves and hides behind a curtain and reads. Then later her least favorite cousin John comes to look for her, but doesn’t see her behind the curtain and calls for his sisters. One looks in and gives away Jane’s hiding place. Then John, who likes to harass Jane, uses her hiding as an excuse to taunt and then hurt her. He pulls Jane’s hair so hard her head bleeds and then she hits John. He cries for his mother and she sees Jane hit him and calls Bessie and Abbot, servants, to pull her away and lock her in the red-room. The red-room is were Jane’s uncle, who was nice to her for the short time she knew him, died and when Jane is locked in there she starts getting scared. Then Jane sees a light on the wall coming from nothing and runs to the door to try to open it and finds it locked so she screams. Bessie and Abbot come running and ask her what’s wrong and if she’s ill she says no, but is crying and tells them what happened. Then her aunt comes up and scolds the servants for opening the door when she said not to until she came for Jane. They explain what happened and Jane begs her aunt to have mercy and punish somewhere else her aunt ignores her and walks away telling the servants to keep Jane where she is and then Jane faints. When Jane wakes up Bessie and the apothecary Mr. Lloyd are in the nursery looking at Jane who is now in her own bed. Jane recovers and a few months pass. Then one day her aunt calls Jane to come downstairs and she enters the drawing room where she is never allowed and a tall man is there. He asks Jane’s name then tells her he is Mr. Brocklehurst from Lowood School. The three talk and her aunt tells him Jane is a horrible child who lies and never follows orders. They finish talking and he hands Jane a book about a bad girl who suddenly died and then tells her aunt that Jane can come to the school. He leaves and Jane gets up her courage and tells off her aunt and tells her how her aunt and cousins are the bad ones. She scares her aunt and wins a feeling of vengeance then later she feels bad so she goes out for a walk. Bessie calls for her and then comes to get her when she doesn’t come and scolds her. Jane hugs Bessie and tells her she’s leaving and they talk then they go spend the afternoon together and Jane experiences happiness, a very rare feeling for her.
I don’t understand the question what is Jane’s job because she’s just a child and doesn’t have one so I can’t answer the first two questions. Jane’s allies are Mr. Lloyd and Bessie. Her enemies are her aunt, her cousins, Abbot, and Mr. Brocklehurst.