![]() ![]() “You will change your mind, I hope, when you grow older: as yet you are but a little untaught girl.” When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.” “If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. ![]() In this exchange, Helen Burns, a sickly student who is nonetheless cheerful, befriends Jane and earnestly instructs her let go of her anger. Reed has been cruel and unjust toward Jane, and Jane in return is full of smoldering resentment toward her aunt. Reed can no longer abide her rebellious behavior. ![]() Jane Eyre, the protagonist of the Charlotte Brontë novel with the same name, is sent to Lowood School because her aunt and benefactress Mrs. ![]()
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