Through what influences and in what ways does Jane mature during her stay at Gateshead and Lowood? What dissatisfactions does she feel at the end of her time and what do we feel that she lacks or still needs

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Through what influences and in what ways does Jane mature during her stay at Gateshead and Lowood?  What dissatisfactions does she feel at the end of her time and what do we feel that she lacks or still needs?

Jane had many influences during her stay at both Gateshead and Lowood.  

She matures in her own way greatly through her times there.

        

During the first chapter of the novel, before she is sent to the ‘Red

Room’, Jane is clearly not a practical ten year old.

“I was glad of it: I never liked long walks”

Compared to her cousins, Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed, Jane is

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considered unsociable and un-childlike.  Jane is a more advanced individual

although she never had been to school, she read broadly as she did not

like to be outside in the cold.

When Jane is banished by Mrs Reed from the company of the Reed

children, instead of arguing back like a normal child of her age, Jane

stays calm and collected and asks Mrs Reed a simple question:-

“What does Bessie say I have done?”

Mrs Reed answers her without an explanation and turns it around to make ...

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