When spring time rolls around everything seems perfect but with the damp warm forest it is a breeding ground for Typhus the disease that killed her parents. More than half the girls come down with the disease but jane remains healthy. Helen dies but not from Typhus, she dies from consumption. Mr. Brocklehurst the principal is found to be one of the causes of the Typhus epidemic. A new crew is sent to run the school, Jane excels in her studies for the next 6 years and after 2 years teaching decides its time for a change which i was really hoping for. Part of the reason for this is miss temple marries and retires. She finds a place to work at in Thornfield, Her new house in thornfield is all great at first but Mrs. fairfox is not she is an elderly woman who is the housekeeper. She watches the house while the owner Mr. ROchester is away. She finds our he has a violent history and also meets Grace an uneasy and unpredictable Seamstress who works in the house. Jane learns she will be tutoring an 8 year old french girl who is pretty intelligent. I think this will be good for Jane, But i think that something bad will probably happen between jane and Mr. Rochester.
This is as far as i have got so far in the book. I think this is a good book and i am excited to see her future conflicts. I would like for Mrs. Reed to die still, that might make Jane even happier. I also hope that the reed kids all do bad in life and go through major struggles for how they treated jane while she was living there. Jane seems to be a very mentally strong woman, she would have to be to make it through the struggles she has. This is what i think of the book so far and i hope it gets even better so i stay interested.
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David,
I'm glad that you're enjoying the book (and I think that you will find that it gets even better as it goes). This is a good, meaty response (keep it up), and what interested me most was the aside about Miss Temple going off and getting married. This raises the questions: just what were the prospects for women in the mid-1800's if they didn't manage to land a "good catch"? What are Jane's prospects? (How ideal a situation is that of a governess?). In what ways was society then--more generally speaking, as 'cruel' and unjust' to women as Brocklehurst's Lowood was to these girls? (Keep in mind that the whole point of Lowood is to 'train' these girls in humility and depreavation.
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