Jane Eyre: reading log
Chapter Main events Key characters Settings Themes Quotation(s)
I Jane hides away to read. Jane Eyre, John Reed The Reeds’ home Childhood, Social class ‘you have no money; your father left
1-7 John Reed attacks her Aunt Reed, Bessie Entrapment, Family you none; you ought to beg’
She’s locked in the red-room Repression versus
freedom
2 Bessie and Miss Abbot tell Jane Eyre The Reed’s home Childhood, Social class ‘O aunt! Have pity!’
7-13 her off/warn her Bessie Entrapment, Family
Jane thinks she saw Mr Miss Abbot Repression versus
Reed’s ghost Mrs Reed freedom
She gets locked back in the
red-room
3 Jane is moved to her own bed Jane Eyre The Reed’s home Childhood, entrapment ‘I should indeed like to go to school’
13-20 Bessie fetches Jane a book, Bessie
and sings to her Mr Lloyd
Mr Lloyd asks jane questions Miss Abbot
to understand why she acts
out/ was ill
4 The Reed family didn’t speak Mrs Reed The Reed’s home Isolation, New beginning ‘I am not deceitful’
20-32 to Jane Jane Eyre ‘No sight so sad as that of a naughty
Mr Brocklehurst arrives to see Mr Brocklehurst child’
Jane about starting in Lowood Bessie
Jane stands up to Mrs Reed
Bessie reassures Jane she
likes her
5 Jane leaves for Lowood with Mrs Miller Reed’s home New Beginning, ‘you ask rather too many questions’
33-43 Bessie’s help Jane Eyre Lowood friendship
She has breakfast there Miss Temple
which was inedible so more Helen Burns
food was ordered
Jane tries to talk to a girl
reading Rasselas
6 Miss Scatcherd tells Helen off Miss Scatcherd Lowood ‘then I should love mrs Reed which I
44-50 and Jane wonders why Jane Eyre cannot do’
Jane tells Helen about her Helen Burns
aunt and helen explains that
life is too short to be hating
Chapter Main events Key characters Settings Themes Quotation(s)
I Jane hides away to read. Jane Eyre, John Reed The Reeds’ home Childhood, Social class ‘you have no money; your father left
1-7 John Reed attacks her Aunt Reed, Bessie Entrapment, Family you none; you ought to beg’
She’s locked in the red-room Repression versus
freedom
2 Bessie and Miss Abbot tell Jane Eyre The Reed’s home Childhood, Social class ‘O aunt! Have pity!’
7-13 her off/warn her Bessie Entrapment, Family
Jane thinks she saw Mr Miss Abbot Repression versus
Reed’s ghost Mrs Reed freedom
She gets locked back in the
red-room
3 Jane is moved to her own bed Jane Eyre The Reed’s home Childhood, entrapment ‘I should indeed like to go to school’
13-20 Bessie fetches Jane a book, Bessie
and sings to her Mr Lloyd
Mr Lloyd asks jane questions Miss Abbot
to understand why she acts
out/ was ill
4 The Reed family didn’t speak Mrs Reed The Reed’s home Isolation, New beginning ‘I am not deceitful’
20-32 to Jane Jane Eyre ‘No sight so sad as that of a naughty
Mr Brocklehurst arrives to see Mr Brocklehurst child’
Jane about starting in Lowood Bessie
Jane stands up to Mrs Reed
Bessie reassures Jane she
likes her
5 Jane leaves for Lowood with Mrs Miller Reed’s home New Beginning, ‘you ask rather too many questions’
33-43 Bessie’s help Jane Eyre Lowood friendship
She has breakfast there Miss Temple
which was inedible so more Helen Burns
food was ordered
Jane tries to talk to a girl
reading Rasselas
6 Miss Scatcherd tells Helen off Miss Scatcherd Lowood ‘then I should love mrs Reed which I
44-50 and Jane wonders why Jane Eyre cannot do’
Jane tells Helen about her Helen Burns
aunt and helen explains that
life is too short to be hating
