Rough Childhood In Jane Eyer

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Jane Eyer

In the novel Jane Eyer we follow a old Jane while she is looking back at her life. We are first introduced to young Jane during her rough childhood where she was orphaned at a young age and sent to live with her Aunt and cousin who both despise her. As a young child she tells her family off for treating her so deplorably and as punishment for talking to them that way they lock her in the room where her uncle died. Jane so panicked has delusions of her uncles ghost. After she is let out from the room her family has no idea what to do with her so they send her to a religious boarding school for orphans called Lowood Institute. At Lowood Institute Jane meets Helen and Miss Temple . While she attends Lowood Miss Temple teaches her

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