Little Miss Jane Eyre has quite a feisty personality. Her youth and mental immaturity fault her in not being able to tame it. In her 12 years of life she has lost both parents, lost her uncle, endured emotional and physical abuse from her foster mother and family, and most recently has lost Hellen, who she befriended at boarding school. She has endured great loss that only a developed individual can conceptualize. Cast aside by her "foster' mother and enrolled in an all girls boarding school, she is beginning to flourish. All you need is one human to believe in you and encourage you - for Jane, this was Miss. Temple. Kind, strict but fair - Miss. Temple has opened her spirit and has given her hope to develop into a deserving and productive human being.
Leave it to a classic to offer some meaningful insights. The hype that is created about new ideas in recent times - it was already said, somewhere, some place, in one of the classics and much more eloquently:
"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends" (pg. 70)
So - in modern day language - just believe in yourself and the rest will follow!
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