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Jane's life at Gateshead
Jane Erye is living with her Aunt Reed and cousins at Gateshead and gets bullied and neglected. This event is significant because this drives Jane to want a life that is better for her. It is the foundation of who she will become and builds her character and personality. -
The Red Room
Jane is locked in the "red room" where her uncle died. She has traumatic experiences. We picked this event because it shows Jane's fear and thinks that her uncle's ghost lingers. This causes her to have trauma. When Jane gets locked in the red room it symbolizes Mrs. Reed's hatred and doesn't love Jane equally. -
Lowood Institute
Jane is sent to an orphan school called Lowood Institute. Jane studies hard while she is at school and later becomes a teacher. This is important because here is where she meets Helen Burns and becomes friends with her. Also, while she is at Lowood, Jane sends her letter to the post office to apply for a job at Thornfield to have a better life. Therefore, this event is significant because this is the building foundation of Jane's new and better life. -
Jane moves to Thornfield
Jane receives a job at Thornfield as a governess to a French girl by the name of Adele Varens. While Jane is at Thornfield, she meets Mr. Rochester and falls in love with him. This is important because it shows her new life and that she is happy. This builds the plot because being at Thornfield will affect her later in her life. -
Eerie Experiences
Jane has a series of eerie experiences related to a mysterious locked room on the third floor of Thornfield and a creepy woman’s laugh that she hears coming from behind the door. This expericnce that Jane has sets the mood at Thornfield that is described as dark and labored with secrets from the past. This event is important to the plot because Thornfield is the place that the book takes place at the most. -
Blanche Ingram
Mr. Rochester teases Jane by pretending to be interested in a local debutante, Blanche Ingram. Blanche and Jane are different because of their personalities and where they are now in life. This event is important in the book because this shows that Rochester loves Jane and wanted to make her jealous. -
Back to Gateshead
Jane goes back to Gateshead to tend Mrs. Reed on her deathbed. This event is important because she reunites with Mrs. Reed even though Jane was treated poorly when she lives at Gateshead. Here Mrs. Reed confesses that she had treated Jane badly. However, Mrs. Reed never forgave her before she died. -
Engagement to Mr. Rochester
Jane returns to Thornfield and eventually becomes engaged to Mr. Rochester. This event is important because it shows that both of them have found happiness in each other. After they are engaged, Jane experiences more eerie episodes in her room. One night she wakes and sees a women tear her veil in two pieces. This forshadows what happens later on. -
Wedding Day
Jane and Rochester’s wedding is interrupted by two men who reveal that Rochester is already married. This event is significant to the story because it reveals Rochester's dishonesty and wasn't loyal to Jane. This opens up to reveal who his wife is. This contributes to the plot because we see a new character. -
Jane Leaves Thornfield
Jane leaves Thornfield and wanders alone. Jane is out of money, food, and soon becomes starved and weak. This event in the story shows Jane's bravery. This is also the beginning of her new destination and where she will end up. This is significant because Jane will meet new people and receive a new job. -
Jane arrives at Moor House
In bad shape and very weak, Jane arrives at Moor House. She is taken in by Diana, Mary, and St. John Rivers. Here at the Moor House Jane finds renewal and her strength again. If St. John wouldn't have let her in, she may not have lived much longer. This also builds to the plot because we are shown new characters and learn who they are. -
Fortune, Cousins, and A Possible Marriage
Jane discovers that she and the Rivers siblings are cousins and that she has inherited £20,000 from an uncle's death that she had never met. St. John Rivers proposes to Jane and wants her to travel to India with him for a missionary trip. This is a twist in the plot because Jane never new about the family she had and who they were. Also, Jane turns down St. John's proposal and doesn't go with him to India. -
Mysterious Voices
Jane mysteriously hears Rochester calling her from a great distance. This is a significant event in the book because this shows that Jane still loves Rochester because she goes back to him. This shows Jane's loyalty to him. -
A Burned Down Thornfield
Jane returns to Thornfield and discovers that Bertha had burned it down. Jane finds Rochester and he is blind from the fire. This is where Bertha is revealed that she is psycho. Burning down Thornfield relates to Jane's abandonment of Rochester. Therefore, this event is important to the plot. -
Happily Ever After
Jane and Rochester rekindle their relationship, get married and have a son together. About two years later after their marriage, Rochester's eyesight comes back. This event is important because it shows that the love between both of them never died. Also, this wraps up the conclusion to the book and ends it in a happy way.
