Jane Eyre Institution

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Jane's life at the Lowood Institution in the novel "Jane Eyre" is not a very positive one. There are only a few characters like she likes, but there are also a couple that she does not like. At Lowood, Jane deals with a lot of internal conflicts as well as external conflicts. When she first arrives, she becomes offended with the way Mr.Brockelhurst questions her. Mrs.Reed, her aunt, begins to say that she lies often and that makes it worse for her. One day she becomes humiliated at school when she gets called a liar and she has to stand on a stool in front of all of her classmates. At this institution, there is also barely any food which is another struggle that she has to deal with.

Helen is a young girl at the Lowood Institution that Jane

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