Jane Eyre II

This is the third blog that I am writing about Jane Eyre in. I have gotten about 70 pages further, give or take, and the book has completely changed. What started as a story about a poor little girl now transformed. As a reader, you witnessed her life at the Lowood school, read a summary of her two years of teaching there and now she is at Thornwood Hall. Jane is now a governess to a young french girl Adéle. Jane does not love this new life by any means. She almost felt trapped in the house because there is no one she can have meaningful conversations with and the house is so big and lonely. One day, Jane decided she would walk to town to deliver the letters that the housekeeper, or manager of the home, Mrs. Fairfax needed delivered. Jane walked down the lonely road then got very scared because she saw a horse and a shaggy dog approaching her. Those images reminded her of the childhood stories she would be told from her governess/servant Bessie about a horse that goes around haunting people. To Jane's relief it is just a man, so she keeps walking. It turns out the man falls on some ice so Jane goes over and helps him. He asks her where she is from and she points the way, he just nods and acts so nonchalant. It is not until Jane returns to Thornwood Hall that she sees that the dog is lying near the fireplace. That man she helped was actually Mr. Rochester, her master, she has never met him after 3 months of working at the home because he is constantly traveling. The part where I left off is when he is having an inquisition about Jane's life, capabilities, skills, knowledge and much more. On the back cover of the book, it says that this story is a love story...but I'm not feeling the love, maybe something's going to change: you never know.

Allie