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Jane Eyre Flowchart of Events!
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Jane hates going on walks and this was a good place to start,
seeing as she didn’t have to
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Her cousin, John Reed,
goes looking for her
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She cuts her head from falling on to the door and jumps
on John Reed, hitting him
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Her other cousins, Eliza
and Georgiana, go and tell their mother who takes Jane to be locked in the ‘Red Room’
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Jane tries to fight,
but it’s no use
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Abbot puts her on a stool and
reminds her she is only a poor orphan and ought to be happy about Mrs Reed taking her
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Jane explains the red room
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It’s
a cold room with little fresh air at all
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She looks in the mirror and examines that her
reflection looks like a ghost
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Jane cannot understand why she is being mistreated as a child, but retelling the story as
an adult makes her aware of things that she was not before
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The room is getting darker and the rain is heard outside
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Jane also thinks about Mr Reed, as it is the room he died in
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Jane tries to calm herself down but she sees a streak of light
and she screams
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Mrs Reed walks in
and scorns the maids for not doing their job properly
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Jane wakes up and Bessie is holding her and looking after her with the help of a doctor
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Bessie then offers Jane something
to eat and drink and Jean is confused by her niceness
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Sarah agrees
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She says that
even though she does not get sick after this, she doesn’t fully recover; she blames Mrs
Reed, even though it was not fully her fault
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Bessie brings Jane a tart on a china plate; but Jane cannot eat it
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The doctor comes back to see how Jane is recovering
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Jane tells the Doctor (Mr Lloyd) about the ghosts and he doesn’t believe her
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Mr Lloyd suggests schooling and Jane ponders on the subject
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Jane agrees with Mr Lloyd
and they try to convince Mrs Reed to send her to school
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Jane waits for Mrs Reed’s go-ahead to go to school
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She is also not spoken to by any of the Reed children
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Mrs Reed scolds John
Reed and says that he shouldn’t associate with Jane
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Jane is left all alone at Christmas and even Bessie leaves her
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She simply takes care of her doll
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Jane
can see a carriage from her window and starts feeding a bird on her window sill
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Jane hasn’t spoken to Mrs Reed in
three months and is very scared
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The man starts
asking Jane questions and Jane knows Mrs Reed will contradict her if she tries to make

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He asks Jane about which parts of the Bible she
likes most and she replies with the Revelations
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We learn that Jane is going to Lowood school and the man’s name is Mr Brocklehurst
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Mr Brocklehurst explains, much to Mrs
Reed’s happiness, that all the girls are kept quiet and plain
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Jane stares at Mrs
Reed and refuses to leave the room when told
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Mrs Reed is so disturbed she leaves the room
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She goes outside
for fresh air, but still feels bad
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The Reeds are out at tea and her and Bessie have a nice
afternoon together
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Jane then takes a coach 50
miles to Lowood
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Miss
Temple is in charge and she seems quite nice; Jane is taken by her to a hall where a lot of
girls are studying
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Everyone
sleeps two to a bed and Jane is with Miss Miller
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Breakfast is porridge, but it’s too
burnt to eat
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She notices every girl is
wearing plain brown woollen dresses with weird pockets at the front
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The first lesson is geography but Jane can’t concentrate because Miss Temple is there
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Miss Temple gives the girls bread and cheese for lunch
to make up for the burnt porridge
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It’s winter though so it’s pretty cold
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The girls study again until 5pm and eat another not-so-good meal
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Helen is dignified and Jane admires her bravery
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Everyone gets up the next day and the water is freezing cold
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Jane starts her lessons, including sewing and reading
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Ms Scatcherd whips Helen’s
neck with a bundle of twigs
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Jane talks to Helen and doesn’t understand why Helen isn’t upset about being treated so
badly
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Helen’s morals make Jane angry and Jane tells Helen
how it is impossible to ‘turn the other cheek’
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Jane is still getting used to Lowood
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Nobody in the school ever gets enough to eat or they're always cold
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Miss
Temple encourages learning and tries to cheer them up
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Mr Brocklehurst is angry about Miss Temple giving the girls extra food to eat so
that they don’t starve
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Mr Brocklehurst says he will send for the barber tomorrow
so that Julia can get all her hair cut off
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Jane tells us she
has been behind her slate and hoping she wouldn’t be noticed
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Jane gets called out and stands on a stool in front of the entire school
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Mr Brocklehurst
eventually leaves feeling very proud of himself but forbids anyone from speaking to Jane
whilst she stands on the chair
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The school day ends and Jane falls off the stool she’s been standing on
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She has become completely hopeless and Helen brings her something to
eat
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Helen knows Jane is innocent and starts talking about the rewards
of the afterlife
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Miss Temple
tries to take care of Jane after being humiliated in front of everyone
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After a while, Jane and Helen go to
have tea with Ms Temple and they talk about intelligent things
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Helen is forced to wear a sign on her forehead that says ‘Slattern’ for
the entirety of the next day
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Ms Temple receives a letter
from Mr Lloyd confirming how badly she was treated by the Reeds
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She is almost
happy
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The
girls at Lowood start catching Typhus and the girls that don’t have it are asked to keep
away from the infected
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Jane remains
healthy and even Brocklehurst is afraid to visit because he is afraid to catch the disease
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Helen hasn’t caught Typhus, she has TB
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Jane realises how bad death really is and how incomprehensible it is
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Jane creeps past the nurse
in order to see Helen and cannot believe how calm Helen is about dying
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She explains that she has been faithful to God and therefore should not
experience much pain
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The older Jane breaks in and says she will skip to 8 years ahead
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Many people with money and compassion came forward and sorted the school
out; making it more humane and liveable
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Jane longs for freedom and relieves herself of teaching duties
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It is from Thornfield Hall; a job as a governess to a 10 years old girl
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Jane gets everything prepared and
waits to leave Lowood
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She is told about how the children have become even worse than before as
they’ve grown up
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She also tells Jane she looks like a lady and
asks her to look after herself when she goes to Thornfield Hall
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Jane
always addresses the reader at key points in the novel; so this can be assumed a key
point
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Mrs Fairfax is very

polite to Jane
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But, she will be governess to Ms Varens
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On her first day at Thornfield, she learns
that the owner of the building is Mr Rochester and Mrs Fairfax is simply a housekeeper
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Jane meets Adele, an 8 year old French girl who doesn’t
speak fluent English
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Adele then
performs for Jane and tells her more about her family history
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Jane is amazed by the house and talks to Mrs Fairfax about Mr Rochester
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Jane hears an eerie
laugh coming from the attic but Mrs Fairfax suggests that it is just a servant named Grace
Poole, who does the sewing
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Jane finds Adele very pleasant and likes to go up on the roof with her
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Three months have
gone since then and it is January; Adele is on holiday from ‘school’ and Jane decides to
give a letter Mrs Fairfax wanted to send to the post office
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A story Bessie used to tell to
Jane; she becomes more frightened from then on
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Just then, she sees the horse slip on ice and fall to the floor, sending the
rider down as well
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She insists on helping him and she explains she is the governess of Mr Rochester’s
household
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Jane isn’t
able to catch the bridle of the horse, so eases the rider on to it carefully
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Mrs Fairfax tells Jane that there
is a man lying on the sofa who happens to be Mr Rochester; he sprained his ankle after a
fall from his horse
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Jane learns from Adele that Mr Rochester had been asking about her and Jane
finally recognises him as the stranger she helped from his horse
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Jane explains the harsh reality of Mr
Brocklehurst at Lowood and Mr Rochester examines her achievement record
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Jane puts Adele to bed and Mr Rochester also goes to bed
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Edward; and the reader also learns about the peculiarities of his relationship with his father
and his brother Rowland Rochester
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Rochester, one
evening, calls for Jane and Adele and he leaves Adele in the corner with some toys whilst
he talks to Jane
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Mr Rochester
asks Jane if she thinks he is handsome and Jane gives an honest ‘no’
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Jane explains she
doesn’t know enough about him to answer
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Jane contradicts Mr
Rochester’s views of being older and wiser than her and says that just because he’s older,
doesn’t mean he’s wiser
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He is happy that she is willing to stand up for herself and knows where
her place is
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Mr Rochester explains his past to Jane and how bitter it was; without going into a lot of
detail
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Jane still tells him to resist yet until he changes as a person
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She ends the conversation by sending
Adele to bed
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Rochester and Jane are walking along the gardens whilst Adele is playing
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Rochester admits to taking action against what had happened but could never
bring himself to face the circumstances again
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He also felt sorry for Adele, so he brought her
back to England for a better life
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She
likes to respond to his thoughts and offer creative advice on morality
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Jane then retires to bed and so does Rochester
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Determined to wake Mrs Fairfax, she unbolts the door and gets a
bucket of water
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She manages to put out the fire
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He accepts that it is Grace
Poole who caused the damage and advises Jane to leave the room
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Jane goes back to bed but cannot sleep
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She overhears the servants talking about him
from the night before and are convinces he put out the fire himself
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Grace Poole is sitting beside the bed and she confronts her about her
involvement with Rochester’s fire
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Grace then advises that Jane keep her door locked all nights
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When Jane comes down to
see Rochester, he has already left for a house called ‘The Leas’ for a week
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Rochester may be interested in marrying Blanche; but Mrs Fairfax
is aware there’s too much difference between the two of them
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Jane later goes back on her word that Rochester may be
interested in her and leaves the topic
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This is to remind herself that Blanche has all the beauty in her
aspects, and not Jane
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Two weeks have gone by and Mrs Fairfax is told that Rochester
is coming back to Thornfield with a bunch of his fiends
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But nobody is wanting to tell her what it is
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The ladies go to
change their clothes after the trip and Jane sneaks downstairs so that nobody will see her
getting food for her, Adele and Sophie
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Adele then falls asleep and
Jane puts her to bed
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Jane notices Blanche and Rochester
sharing a horse and riding separate from the others as she passes a window
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The guests finish eating and Jane waits for them with Sophie in the drawing room
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Jane explains each of them and their
background
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Blanche is also very
stuck up and Jane decides that she is ‘majestic’
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The gentlemen are the last to enter and Rochester and his friends are drinking coffee
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She
decides that her and Rochester are alike, but Blanche decides to talk to Rochester about
how vile governesses are
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Blanche changes the
subject just as it turns into a full blown conversation
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She seems
to slip out of the hallway and has to stop and retie her laces
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She then leaves
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Blanche and Rochester go first and act out a phrase
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When they switch, Blanche flirts with Rochester
and Jane is still not impressed
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A stranger arrives at Thornfield and waits for Rochester to come back
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A gypsy woman also arrives and the women get excited about having
their fortunes told
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Blanche goes in first and when she comes out, she claims that the woman is a fraud and is
very upset
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Jane then
enters as the gypsy knows that there is another single woman in the crowd
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She begins but does not believe a word the
woman says
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The
woman admits to knowing Grace Poole and Jane begins to think her more sinister than
gypsy
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Jane says she
wants to hear her own fortune
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Jane then cannot decides whether she is disappointed in him or not, but is nice to him
anyway
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After Jane goes to bed, she hears Rochester lead
the stranger (Mr Mason) up to his room and then go to his own
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Someone calls
Rochester’s name
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Rochester tells them that a servant had a nightmare and assigns everyone back to
bed
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Jane goes to get smelling salts and water
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Jane keeps Mr Mason awake and from passing out and is locked in the room by
Rochester
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A doctor, Mr Carter, comes into the room and helps Mr Mason, taking him

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Jane starts to believe that Grace Poole is a vampire
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Rochester explains that he
will be in danger until Mason leaves England
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After becoming rude and sarcastic, Rochester sends Jane off to bed
and doesn’t talk with her until another time
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Jane learn that John
Reed has died in a probable suicide and Mrs Reed had a stroke when she heard
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Jane obliges and asks for
time off work to Rochester
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Rochester then gives Jane some money (£10)
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A few days later, Jane arrives at Bessie’s lodge and this is the first time Jane has been
back in 9 years
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Jane goes to see Mrs Reed lying in bed and
now is willing to forgive her
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Mrs Reed then
admits the reason to hating Jane all those years
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Jane draws Rochester and seems so absorbed that she doesn’t notice
her cousins looking at it
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The cousins talk to Jane more and take
more liking to her
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Both do not get along
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With her last breaths, Mrs Reed explains why she was so
cruel to Jane and apologises for being so; she also apologises for keeping a letter from her
uncle away from her
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Neither Jane nor Eliza cries
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Jane remains at Gateshead and Georgiana then goes back to London
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On the way back to Thornfield, Jane realises that she was never happy
to go back to Gateshead or Lowood at all
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Rochester asks Jane whether she forgot about him
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Blanche isn’t around any more
and nobody’s talking about the marriage; Jane secretly hopes it has been cancelled
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Rochester asks Jane to walk with him and admits he is leaving after
marrying Blanche
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He says he’ll find a position for her himself; in his company in Ireland
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Rochester explains his attachment to Jane and she cannot reply through her

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Rochester
says that him and Jane are equal and he kisses her
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Jane thinks it is a joke and Rochester begins to speak
to her again
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Rochester asks Jane
is she is okay and Jane says she is; but can sense a bad omen rising as a chestnut tree is
struck in half by lightning
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Rochester begins to call her ‘Jane
Rochester’ and ‘Mrs Rochester’
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Rochester explains the whole ‘Blanche’ situation to Jane and Jane asks if he should tell
Mrs Fairfax about they engagement
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Rochester begins buying Jane fancy clothes and jewellery; but Jane manages to coax him
out of most of it
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Jane chooses to keep Rochester at arms length; but Rochester wants to get
closer to Jane
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It is the night before Jane and Rochester’s wedding and Jane is looking at her new name
on her luggage
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She is
waiting for Rochester to come to her
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Rochester sees Jane in the rainfall
and helps her on to his horse; he is worries that she is upset about something
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Jane asks Rochester if he knew anything about it; but
Rochester explains it was probably just a nightmare
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The
following morning, Jane pulls Adele off her and leaves
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Sophie dresses Jane in her wedding gown
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Jane notices two strangers at the church but
Rochester doesn’t see them
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One of the
strangers, Mr Briggs, claims that Rochester was married some time before to a woman
called Bertha Mason, in Jamaica
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Richard is Bertha’s brother
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Bertha Mason has mental illness
running through her family and says he was tricked into marrying her
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Jane and
the others are sent out of the room and Jane contemplates whether she could ever trust
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