Children tend to allow their emotions and their feelings to rule all of their decisions, but as they grow and mature into adults, they are able to make the right decision despite what they would rather do. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte shows the development of the main character Jane Eyre as she grows up into an adult who uses reason to make her important decisions. Jane first lives at Gateshead with her rich, snobbish aunt Mrs. Reed and her violent, mistrusting cousins John, Georgiana, and Eliza. Then Jane is sent to live at Lowood, a boarding school for disadvantaged children, where she meets her first true friend, Helen Burns, and a kindly teacher who soon becomes her friend, Miss Temple. After her schooling at Lowood Jane takes on a job as a governess at Thornfield, a stately manner owned by Mr. Edward Rochester who, while unattractive and abrasive, Jane soon falls in love with.
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The Salutation public house in Higher Chatham Stre...When Jane abruptly leaves Thornfield, she travels to Moor House where she encounters the Rivers: St. John, who shows little emotion and lives a very structured life, and Mary and Diana, who both are lively, kind women. Finally, Jane seeks out Mr. Rochester again and travels to Ferndean, his small hunting lodge in the middle of the country side. Jane gradually matures from a passionate child to a reasonable adult through her experiences in her childhood at Gateshead and Lowood, in her adolescence at Lowood and Thornfield, and in her adulthood at Moorhouse and Ferndean.
During her childhood at Gateshead and Lowood, Jane is a passionate young girl who has not yet matured into reason. For instance, Mrs. Reed accuses Jane of being a liar and Jane vehemently yells in retaliation, "I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but...