Jane arrives at Lowood school, she spends her first day there. She has her first conversation with Helen Burns.
Themes
Religion, routine, poverty, physical hardships.Characters
Helen Burns is introduced to the reader. She talks to Jane and reads, she comments on the teachers but does not say that she dislikes the way that any of them work, the reader gets the impression that she is evading the language that Jane might use to describe the teachers, she is more guarded.
Places
Lowood school, church like aspect, rather harsh surroundings, cold and bare.Interesting extracts
' "He is a clergyman and is said to do a great deal of good." ' Helen Burns tries to assume the best of everybody.
Response?
To the reader life for Jane doesn't seem to have improved but not once does she say that she regrets leaving Gateshead, it shows how much she disliked the emotional trauma.
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