Jane Eyre Assignment 15.

Jane Eyre Assignment 15.
Chapters 34-36.
In chapter 34 of Jane Eyre, Diana and Mary come home after learning that Jane is their cousin. As they rejoice and spend their next hours happily together St. John surprises Jane with a tour de force. St. John asks Jane to marry him and to go with him to India. Jane says she must think about his proposal. Later in the week Jane is home with a cold and St. John makes her give up German for an Indian Language. When Jane says she will go to India as St. John’s sister and not his wife, St. John says that to refuse him is to refuse god.

In Chapter 35, St. John postpones his trip for a week, and during that time punishes Jane for not marrying him. Jane then pleads with St. John to not pressure her to marry him and that he is killing her with his icy chill. Then realizing they have fought, Diana talks to Jane about St. John. They talk for a while and later while St. John is praying for Jane and everything, Jane feels temptation toward marrying St. John but hears Rochester saying her name over and over again.

In chapter 36, St. John early in the morning slips a note into Jane’s room, again asking her to marry him. Jane leaves the house and catches a carriage to Thornfield. When she reachs Thornfield, she finds it in a blackened and burnt state. Later in the day she meets a man who tells her what happened. It seems that Bertha Mason, Rochester’s wife has started the fire and Rochester saved two of his servants and he tried to save Bertha, but she jumped from the roof and died. Rochester now lives in a secluded home deep in the woods.