Friday, December 12, 2008

Jane Eyre Assignment 13

Jane Eyre Assignment 13.
Chapters 29-30.
In the chapters of Jane Eyre, Jane has left Thornfield and has begun to wander the English morres looking for work and food. Eventually she is very close to dying and ust lies down on a bed of grass and waits. But someone comes and saves Jane. After days of fading in and out of consciense and hearing voices talking about her, Jane wakes up to find herself in a comfortable bed surrounded by 3 people. Two of them are young ladies and the third is a dark and brooding man named St. John. The two women are named Diana and Mary. Then a servant named Hannah enters with Jane’s clothes all washed and dried. While the sisters try to read the name on the back of Jane’s clothes, Jane says that her named is Jane Elliot. Jane spends 3 days and nights in bed and when she is well enough to move around, she and the 2 sister along with St. John have a walk together and meet Ms. Oliver. The daughter of a wealthy needle factory owner. It is stated that Ms. Oliver positively adores St. John and he the same, but he won’t say it. Then Jane finds out that St. John’s father died a few years ago after he lost so much money and land when a man he trusted went bankrupt. Then a month passes and Diana and Mary prepare to leave for their jobs as governesses. Jane has also been offered a job as a teacher for poor girls in the town and her salary would be 30 pounds a year. After a while the girls are having a talk by the fire and they learn that their Uncle John died and St. John reveals that it was St. John who cheated their father out of land and money.

1 comment:

  1. Too much summary, not enough reaction or original thought.

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