jane eyre 3

Jane Eyre 3
This section of the book was so very pessimistic and even more morbid than the last section. It seem like no matter where Jane goes, misfortune will follow her. Its hopeless…Chapter five starts with Jane’s journey to her new school, there she quickly makes friends with a girl named Helen Burns and is interviewed by one of her new teachers, Miss Temple. This one teacher differs from all the other adult characters in this book so far because she is actually nice to the students and goes easy on them, while the others hit and punish for the smallest little things. She was also responsible for their extra bit off food that they received because of her consideration that the breakfast was inedible and too small in portion. In chapter six, Jane sees her only friend Helen get punished and beaten for not having clean nails, this was an unfair punishment, as the water in the pitchers was frozen and it was not really her fault that she couldn’t bathe. Helen justifies this as a way of being corrected and in the big holy book it says to love your enemies. I still, however, have to agree with Jane, if someone hurts you, your instinct is naturally to dislike them, not accept their criticism and punishments. This also seems to be Mr. Brocklehurst’s view on education, that and harsher terms of living, such as ridiculously small rations of food and cutting off all the girls hair so that they wont be vain. I really don’t like him and if there is a ghost of monster of some sort in this story, I hope he is the first to go, followed by Jane’s aunt.