There are many significant passages in the novel, Jane Eyre, reveals Jane as a person including her values that foretold her inheritance of money from her father and the love/support from Bessie, Miss Temple, and Mrs. Fairfax. In Jane Eyre, Jane seeks out for her family, for a sense of being, value, and belonging. Although, she is also having a tendency to need independence. At the beginning of the novel, she is an unloved orphan that does not receive any parental love from Mrs. Reed or love from her cousin, John Reed. John tortures her, reminding her the rules within the household. John throws a book at Jane and she calls him a “Wicked cruel boy! You are like a murderer – you are like a slave driver – you are like the Roman emperors” (Bronte,
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Throughout the rest of the novel, Bessie, Miss Temple, and Mrs. Fairfax care for Jane and provided the love and guidance she needed. She returns the favor for them by caring for Adéle and the students at her school, “I promised them that never a week should pass in the future that I did not visit them, and give them an hour’s teaching in their school.” (Bronte 913). In Chapter 33, St. John explains to Jane that he found her true identity from the paper he tore up, which had Jane Eyre written on it. The reason why everyone is looking for Jane is that her uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, died and left his entire fortune to her, “Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left you all his property, that you are now rich...” (Bronte 907). She is now rich with the inheritance of twenty thousand pounds and wishes she had a family to share it with. Later, St. John shares his full story explaining his full name, St. John Eyre Rivers, and how the Rivers are Jane’s cousins. She feels a sense of reassurance knowing she found a brother and two sisters who she can admire and love; in her opinion, are “wealth to the heart”. Jane decides to divide the money into four pieces (five thousand
Throughout the rest of the novel, Bessie, Miss Temple, and Mrs. Fairfax care for Jane and provided the love and guidance she needed. She returns the favor for them by caring for Adéle and the students at her school, “I promised them that never a week should pass in the future that I did not visit them, and give them an hour’s teaching in their school.” (Bronte 913). In Chapter 33, St. John explains to Jane that he found her true identity from the paper he tore up, which had Jane Eyre written on it. The reason why everyone is looking for Jane is that her uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, died and left his entire fortune to her, “Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left you all his property, that you are now rich...” (Bronte 907). She is now rich with the inheritance of twenty thousand pounds and wishes she had a family to share it with. Later, St. John shares his full story explaining his full name, St. John Eyre Rivers, and how the Rivers are Jane’s cousins. She feels a sense of reassurance knowing she found a brother and two sisters who she can admire and love; in her opinion, are “wealth to the heart”. Jane decides to divide the money into four pieces (five thousand