emple is towards Helen. Another character who shows Jane love at Lowood is Helen herself. She is the first person Jane’s age who is nice to her. Jane grew up with the Reed children’s spiteful actions and attitudes toward her and never experienced a peer’s kindness until she met Helen.After Miss Temple leaves Lowood, Jane decides that maybe she should also leave and go elsewhere. She takes a job as Adele Varen’s governess. It is here that Jane experiences her first love attraction toward the opposite sex. These attitudes are directed toward Adele’s benefactor, Mr. Rochester. He is the first male to show Jane that she truly matters and that she is worthy of another person’s true love. They become engaged, but in the middle of their wedding ceremony, due to some unforeseen circumstances (namely, that Mr. Rochester is still married), their marriage and subsequent plans are called off. Jane runs away with almost all of her hopes and dreams that she had actually found love dashed.Jane ends up (by a very unlikely coincidence) on the doorsteps of her long-lost cousins. When they finally figure out their relationship, Jane feels that she has found love once again. But, as before, things change. Just as Jane is becoming happy with her life, Mr. Rivers (her reverend cousin) asks her to marry him and move to India with him to be his missionary’s assistant. While she is debating what she should do, thoughts of Mr. Rochester (that she has tried unsuccessfully to repress) come flooding back to haunt her. She finally decides that Mr. Rivers’ proposition of love is not the type of love that she is searching for. She decides to go and seek out Mr. Rochester.At the book’s end, Jane has found Mr. Rochester and consequently discovered what true love is. Even though Mr. Rochester is horribly disfigured, she still loves him as much, if not more than she did when she first met him. She has ...
