Jane Eyre

Annotation #20
"Oh, sir- never mind jewels!"
"Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess."
"I will attire my Jane in satin and lace, and she shall have roses in her hair, and I will cover the head I love the best with priceless veil."
"Is it for love that he is really going to marry you?"

Mr. Rochester is telling Jane all the fancy stuff he wants her to wear at their wedding but Jane doesn't want any of that. Mrs. Fairfax asks Jane is Mr. Rochester really wants to marry her out of love which is a stupid question because he just keeps going on and on about Jane and how much he loves her and whatnot.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #19
"You must see the carriage, Jane, and tell me if you don't think it will suit Mrs. Rochester."
"Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am stangely glad to get back again to you; and whenever you are is my home -my only home."
"He became even gay. Never had he called me more requently to his presence; never been kinder to me when there - and, alas! never had I loved him so well."
"i believe you must, Jane. I am sorry, Janet, but I believe indeed you must."
"Then you are going to be married, sir?"
"from you, sir."
"I shall never see you again, Jane, that's morally certain. I never go over to Irelan, not having myself much of a fancy for the county."
"I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you -especially right when you are near me"
"My bride! What bride? I have no bride"
"I tell you I must go! Do you think I can stay to become nothing to you?"
"My bride is here, because my equal is here, and my likeness, Jane, will you marry me?"

When Jane finally gets back from Gateshead Mr. Rochester's wedding is being planned. During that time Mr. Rochester has requested Jane's presence more often and is much kinder to her now that she is back. He has been leading her on just to go and tell her that he is going to send her away to Ireland because she is a threat to his wedding. During this Jane tells Mr. Rochester how she feels about him and his wedding; for him to reveal that he knew Miss Ingram was a fake and that his true match is her and she shall be his bride.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #18
"I wish she had died!"
"I had a dislike to her mother always."
"Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaity"
"Eliza still spoke little"
"Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you, was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth"
"Everybody knows you are the most selfish heartless creature in existence"
"love me, then, or hate me, as you will, you have my full and free forgiveness, ask now for god's and be at peace."

Jane goes back to Gateshead Hall to see Mrs. Reed. She finds out why Mrs. Reed hated her so much. Also she see's that Georgiana and Eliza haven't changed because they still have a bitterness toward the other. It is here that Jane realizes how much she has matured from when she was ten.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #17
"I believe I have found the instrument for my cure in-"
"To you I can talk of my lovely one."
"John Reed died yesterday was a week, at his chambers in London."
"It brought on a stroke."
"Bring Jane -fetch Jane Eyre"
"promise me only to stay a week-"
"At all events you will come back"
"Adele ought to go to school"
"Not to advertise: and to trust this quest of a situation to me. I'll find you one in time."

Mr. Rochester has suggested his feelings for Jane when saying she could be his cure. That is ruined by the fact that he is still going to marry Miss Ingram and talk about her to Jane. Robert came and told Jane that John Reed committed suicide and that in Mrs. Reed's delerios state she has been calling for Jane. Before she leaves she goes to get permission to leave and Mr. Rochester is very perssitant on making sure Jane comes back. Jane suggests that Adele she go to school as to not be in the bride's way and that would mean Jane would have to find work somewhere else but Mr. Rochester doesn't want Jane to advertise. I think that he wants to advertise her so he can make sure she stays or is far away from his manor.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #16
"it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often"
"Mr. Rochester stepped out of his disguise"
"I wish I were in a quiet island with only you"
"I'd give my life to serve you"
"I should have more pleasure in staying with you."
"You don't turn sick at the sight of blood?"
"She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart."
"Will Grace Poole live here still, sir?"
"I like to serve you, sir, and to obey you in all that is right."
"Sit the bench is long enough for two, you don't hesitate to take a place at my side, do you? Is that wrong Jane?"

The fortune teller was actually Mr. Rochester in disguise and only Jane figured it out. Mr. Rochester cares about Jane and Jane would do anything to please. When Mr. Rochester asks Jane about hesitating to take a place at his side I think it is infering as in marriage. Before this conversation happens Mr. Mason is attacked by Grace Poole, most likely. There is something going on between Grace and Mr. Rochester and I want to know what it is.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #15
"Good night my-"
"Mr. Rochester had again summoned the ladies round him, and was selecting certain of their number to be of his party."
"will you play?"
"Then appeared the magnificent figure of Miss Ingram...by her side walked Mr. Rochester"
"But I was not jealous, or very rarely..her mind was poor...She was not good; she was not original"
"this obvious absence of passion in his sentiment towards her, that my ever-burning pain arose."
"I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons."
"She could not charm him."
"I was growing very lienent toward my master. I was forgetting all his faults."

Mr. Rochester is always in the presence of another woman, usually Miss Ingram. Jane isn't jealous of Ingram anymore. She realized that Miss Ingram isn't good enough for Mr. Rochester, she doesn't compare to him in mind. She notices that the two aren't truely in love.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #14
"it surprises me that he has already made so protracted a stay at Thornfield"
"I already seemed to have obtained proof -to remove the last shade of doubt, it remained but to see them together."
"just after I had renderded him, what he deemed, an essential service - and he holding my hand, and looking down on my face, surveyed me with eyes that revealed a heart full and eager to everflow; in whose emotions I had a part."
"I had not intended to love him...He made me love him without looking at me."
"He is not to them what he is to me, he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine."
"but I affirm that you are; so much depressed that a few words would bring tears to your eyes."

Jane has admitted to falling in love with Mr. Rochester. Now that she has seen Blanche Ingram she has even more doubts. Yet deep down she believes that they are two of a kind. She loves him so much that it is depressing and hurting her inside.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #13
"Mr. Rochester is so talented and so lively in society, that I believe he is a general favorite."
"The ladies are very fond of him...perhaps his wealth and good blood make amends for any little fault of look."
"She was dressed in pure white."
"she and Mr. Rochester sang a duet ."
"You a favorite with Mr. Rochester? You gifted with the power of pleasing him? You of importance to him in any way?"
"No, indeed, I don't; Mr, Rochester has something else to think about."
"but you see Mr. Rochester evidently prefers her to any of the other ladies."
"Yes -he said that from mere politeness, I need not go, I am sure."

After the fire incident, any woman mentioned with Mr. Rochester arouses jealosy in Jane. That jealosy turns into doubt when she hears about Blanche Ingram and see's the two of them together.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #12
"When he met me unexpectedly, the encounter seemed welcome; he had always a word and sometimes a smile for me; when summoned by formal invitaition to his presense, I was honoured by a cordiality of reception made me feel I really had the power to amuse him"
"these evening conferences were sought as much for his pleasure as for my benefit"
"suppose he should be absent, spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem"
"Somebody has plotted something."
"I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye"
"I have never heard Mr. Rochester's voice or step in the house today; but surely I shall see him by night. I feared the meeting in the morning; now I desire it."

Mr. Rochester is seeking out Jane a lot to be in her company. As they spend time together Mr. Rochester isn't the only one enjoying it, for Jane can't wait for their next encounter. Late at night mr. Rochester's room catches on fire and Jane saves him. Jane said she heard Grace Poole's laughter during the fire, so she believes she started it.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #11
"Do you think me handsom?"
"I am disposed to be gregarious and communicative tonight and that is why I sent for you."
"I don't wish to treat you like an inferior; that is, I claim only such superiority as must result from twenty years' difference in age and a century's andvance in experience."
"I don't think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience."
"I have plenty of faults of my own."
"You said error brought remorse, and you pronounced remorse the poisen of existence."
Celine Varens mother of Adele

Jane learns a lot about Mr. Rochester. Through there conversation they discuss somethings that lead to how Mr. Rochester should change himself for the better. Also Mr. Rochester tells Jane who Adele's mother is and that he used to be in love with her but he denies being the father.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #10
"A rill from the other world was flowing through it; it had a master; for my part, I liked it better."
"I marvelled where you had got that sort of face."
"Partly because it is his nature -and we can none of us help our nature; and, partly, he has painful thoughts, the doubt, to harass him, and make his spirit unequal."
"The present Mr. Rochester has not been very long in possession of the propert; only about nine years."
"Ah well; come forward; be seated here." "I am not fond of the prattle of children."
"I did as I was bid, though I would much rather have remained somewhat in the shade, but Mr. Rochester had such a direct way of giving orders, it seemed a matter of course to obey hbim properly."

Jane likes the place a lot more now that the master is there, things are more thriving. Mr. Rochester's attitude toward Jane is confusing because he keeps asking a bunch of questions and then dismissing her. Jane learns how Mr. Rochester got the property and that it might be the cause of his random gloomyness. I want to know why he keeps Adele around if he doesn't even like children.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #9
"They must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it"
"Ah, the governess!" "duece take me, if I had not forgotten! The governess!"
"It was an incident of no moment, no romance, no interest, in a sense; yet it marked with change one single hour of a monotonous life."

Jane is restless with her position. It is dull to her. On her way to send a letter she meets Mr. Rochester (she doesn't know it at the time) who is hurt. He is a very odd person, random, and bossy. The one little meeting gave Jane's life a bit of excitement.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #8
"I suppose, judging from the plainness of the servant and the carriage, Mrs. Fairfax is not a very dashing person"
"How do you do my dear?"
"She treats me like a visitor"
"I am only the housekeeper-the manager."
Miss Adela only speaks French
"Mr. Rochester was Mr. Rochester in her eyes; a gentleman, a landed proprietor-nothing more."

Jane suspects that Mrs. Fairfax is going to be another Mrs. Reed. When Jane gets there she couldn't have been more wrong, Mrs. Fairfax treats Jane as if she were a guest, an equal. We find out that Mrs. Fairfax isn't even the owner of the house but just manages it and Mr. Rochester is the owner and it is his ward, Adela, who Jane is going to govern. We learn very little about Mr. Rochester. I want to know why he isn't home to greet Jane and where he is.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #7
"Yes to my long home-my last home."
"I am very happy, Jane; and when you hear that I am dead, you must be sure and not grieve; there is nothing to grieve about."
"God is my father; God is my friend; I love him; I believe he loves me."
Helen died in the middle of the night
The typhus fever epidemic's news spread, rich donated to school
"From the day she left I was no longer the same"
"Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead"
"I desired liberty"
"I had my advertisement written, enclosed, and directed before the bell rang to rouse the school"
"Mrs. Fairfax, Thornfield, near Millcote-shire"
"you've not quite forgotten me, think Miss Jane?"
"Seven years ago, a Mr. Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you"

Helen is on her death bed and Jane sneaks out to see her. Jane is very distraut about it and Helen tells her not to grieve when she's gone for she is happy and is going to Heaven to see God. Helen is very sure about God and that she is going to Heaven. In the middle of the night when Jane and Helen are sleeping she dies. The typhus epidemic was heard about all over and wealthy people donated money to the school to make it better and despite that Mr. Brocklehurst still was tresurer of the school. Jane became a teacher there for a while and when Miss Temple got married and left Jane became very upset and realized that she was made the school home. Jane wants to leave the school and go somewhere different so she secretly advertises herself and gets a letter back for a job as a governess. The day she is gonna leave Bessie is at the school to greet her and we find out that Jane in fact did have other family besides the Reeds.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #6
"But what have I to do with millions? The eighty I know despise me."
"Mr. Brocklehurst is not a god, nor is he even a great and admired man; he is little liked here; he never took steps to make himself liked."
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while you own consciounce approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends."
"We shall think you what you prove yourself to be"
"Miss Temple had always a sense of serenity in her air"
Miss Temple wrote to Mr. Lloyd and he cleared everything Mr. Brocklehurst said
"i forgot to prepare in imagination the Barmecide supper...I feasted instead on the spectacle of ideal drawings"
"While diesease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood"
Helen is very ill

While Jane is crying about the stool incident Helen comes over to comfort her. She reassures her that not everyone despises her and that they don't even, they if any thing pity her. Also Helen says that if you like yourself and nobody else does then that should be what really matters. Miss Temple goes over to the two and tells Jane that she will only judge Jane on how she acts not what Mr. Brocklehurst says and she even gets proff it was a lie from Mr. Lloyd. Even though it should not matter what Mr. Brocklehurst says when nobody even likes him. As the weather got warmer Lowood became a breeding ground for diesease and Helen like many others is sick, and she is not doing very good, I think she is going to die.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #5
"Miss Temple is full of goodness"
"I fall into a sort of dream."
"Well then with Miss Temple you are good?"
"You are good to those who are good to you...If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way."
"But I feel this, Helen: I must dislike those who, whatever I do to please then, persist in disliking me; I must resist those who punish me unjustly."
"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"I must be responsible for the circumstances, sir."
"My dear children,...that this girl, is a little cast away...but an interloper and an alien."
"Let her stand half an hour longer on that stool"
"I wished to die"

While Jane and Helen are talking Jane keeps going back to Miss Temple. Out of all the teachers Miss Temple is the kindest and Helen likes her the most. Helen has a hard time concentrating because she is always daydreaming. Jane goes on about how she would disike someone who dislikes her no matter what she does to please which i'm pretty sure that she is referring to Mrs. Reed. Helen doesn't believe in that she feels it is a waste to harbor feelings of dislike toward someone who did you wrong, especially since life is too short. I wonder if Helen's going to die or something and that is a foreshadowing of it. When Mr. Brocklehurst comes he does not approve of the cheese and bread snack or that the girls have two sets of clothes. He also points out Jane and repeats everything Mrs. Reed had said about Jane being wicked and made her stand on a stool in the middle of the room. After that she starts crying and wishes she were dead because now she feels everyone will not like her any more. I find it funny in a way that this incident has her balling her eyes out, yet constantly being beat by a big boy doesn't make her cry.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #4
"Breakfast was over and none had breakfasted."
"I leant against a pillar of the verandah, drew my grey mantle close about me, and, trying to forget the cold which nipped me without, and the unsatisfied hunger"
"I saw a girl sitting on a stone bench near; she had bent over a book, on the perusal of which she seemed intent"
"I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I liked reading"
"Both died before I can remember."
"to Miss. Temple? Oh no! I wish it did! she has to answer to Mr. Brocklehurst for all she does. Mr. Brocklehurst hurst buys all our food and all our clothes."
"Miss Temple is the best-isn't she?"
"The punishment seemed to me in a high degree ignominious, especially ros so great a girl"
"Miss Scatchered continued to make an object of constant notice"
"What is your name besides Burns?"
"But then it seems disgraceful to be flogged, and to be sent to stand in the middle of a room full of people"

Jane's first day at Lowood has not been what she expected. The breakfast went wrong and was ruined and they have to go outside in the unbearalby cold with thin mantle's. While out in the garden she sees a girl reading a book and goes over to talk to her because she also enjoys reading and finds solstice in it. Her name is Helen and her parents are both dead (like Jane's) and one of the teachers Miss Scatcherd always is cruel to Helen just as Mrs. Reed was to Jane. Jane has become very interested in Helen and fond of her.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #3
" Perhaps the less said on that subject the better, Mr. Brocklehurst."
"That proves you have a wicked heart; and you must prey to god to change it"
" I am not decietiful; if i were, I should say I loved you, but I declare I do not love you. and this book about the liar, you may give to your girl, Georgiana, for it is she who tells lies, and not I."
"People think you are a good woman, but you are bad; hardhearted. You are deceitful!"
" I don't dislike you, Miss; I believe I am fonder of you that of all the others."
"...and seh told me to remember that she had always been my best friend, and to speak of her and be grateful to her accordingly."

Mr. Brocklehurst, the head master of Lowood, comes down to Gateshead Hall to kinda inteview Jane to see if he will except her into his school. While there Mrs. Reed tells a lie that Jane is a bad child and very deceitful and Mr. Brocklehurt believes her and gives Jane a book about a liar. He tells Jane that she has a wicked heart when it's Mrs. Reed who does for lieing about Jane. Jane tells Mrs. Reed to her face that she is the deceitful one and Mrs. Reed gets very upset about all the stuff Jane says about her. When i don't see why she should care when she despises Jane. It is also established that Jane truely does love Bessie. I wonder if they might meet again later on in the book. Before Jane leaves to go to Lowood, Mrs. Reed tells Jane to speak greatly about her, basically glorify her which is stupid because she was nothing but cruel to Jane.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #2
" I daren't for my life be alone with that poor child tonight"
"I cry because i am miserable."
"For one thing, I have no father or mother, brothers or sisters."
"Have you any relations besides Mrs. Reed?"
"I asked Mrs. Reed once, and she said possibly I might have, low relations called Eyre."
"I should indeed like to go to school."
"My father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends."
"Caught the typhus fever"
"Since my illness, she had drawn more marked a line of seperation than ever between me and her own children"
"What would Uncle Reed say to you, if he were alive?"
"I preferred her to any one at Gateshead Hall."

Jane, while talking to Mr. Lloyd reveals that she is miserable. We learn that her parents both died of typhus and before they were married Jane's mother was disowned for marrying a poor clergyman. This probably has a lot to do with why Mrs. Reed treats Jane like scum becuase she was born of poor people. We also learn that Jane would like to go to school and it would be her escape. After Jane's episode in the red room, Mrs. Reed doesn't want her children around Jane as if they could catch some vile diesease from Jane. Out of everyone at Gateshead Hall, Jane does like Bessie and the same seems to go for Bessie. When Jane brings up Mr. Reed, Mrs. Reed gets very upset, i wonder why it would bug her so much having her husband mentioned.

Jane Eyre

Annotation #1

" She really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contended, happy, little children."
"He bullied and punished me"
"I was reading."
"Take her away to the red room, and lock her in there."
"That you are under obligations to Mrs. Reed; she keeps you, if she were to turn you off, you would have to go to the poorhouse."
"Why could I never please?"
"and that in his last moments he had required a promise of Mrs. Reed that she would rear and maintain me as on of her own children."
"I thought Mr. Reed's spirit.."

Jane is an orphan. She is being taken care of by Mrs. Reed as a dieng wish of her husband because Jane is his sister's child. Jane is constantly being abused and taunted by the Reed children, especially John. She really enjoys reading and it is probably her only escape from the Reeds. Mrs. Reed has Jane locked up in the red room (which used to be Mr. Reed's) because her and John got in a fight. When in the room she gets very frightened because she believes she has seen the ghost of Mr. Reed and ends up fainting. Jane is very depressed and sad living there. It also upsets her that no matter what she can never please Mrs. Reed. I want to know if Jane has any other family left besides the Reeds.