Sara Moles_ First Blog

I thought chapter fifteen of Jane Eyre was the most interesting chapter yet. I like the fact that Jane is finally happy! She actually has interest in life. Before this chapter, she was generally content (except in the very beginning of her Lowood attendance), but now she is actually smiling, laughing and isn't constantly wanting something more out of her life. I like that Rochester and her get along so well, and I think I would be thinking the same things Jane is. He likes her and she is right in taking an interest in him! However, it's almost a doomed love because he's so much older than her, she's poor, he's rich and all that. I think they'd be good together. They're both so intellectual and Jane's inexperience matches Rochester's maturity well. Plus, then Adele would have a good set of parents. Rochester could provide for her, and Jane could provide the love and education that orphans often times don't receive. 

I have kind of a weird take on the whole fire incident. My first reaction was that a ghost set the fire. That's why Rochester can't be happy at Thornfield. There's some kind of spirit thing that is so ticked off at him that it tried to kill him! Maybe I'm just being dumb, because Grace Poole was acting pretty strange, but why would she wait eight weeks to make her move? And if it was her, why wouldn't Rochester immediately fire her? Also, the laughing was deep, not like a woman's laugh. I was honestly so creeped out last night. I was alone in my house and it freaked me out! Any one else?