The risk in running away

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"What have you heard? What do you see?" asked St. John. I saw nothing, but I heard a voice somewhere cry -

"Jane! Jane! Jane!"--nothing more.

"O God! what is it?" I gasped.

I might have said, "Where is it?" for it did not seem in the room-- nor in the house--nor in the garden; it did not come out of the air- -nor from under the earth--nor from overhead. I had heard it-- where, or whence, for ever impossible to know! And it was the voice of a human being--a known, loved, well-remembered voice--that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently.

"I am coming!" I cried. "Wait for me! Oh, I will come!" I flew to the door and looked into the passage: it was dark. I ran out into the garden: it was void.

"Where are you?" I exclaimed.

The hills beyond Marsh Glen sent the answer faintly back--"Where are you?" I listened. The wind sighed low in the firs: all was moorland loneliness and midnight hush." (427)

I always knew that Jane Eyre a woman in love with Eward Fairfax Rochester was going to break down and lose it. I had a feeling that this moment would come. Jane has gone through homelessness and heart breaking situations;she has hidden her feelings for a long period of time. Jane tried to hide her feelings, and for to long she has pretended to be firm and strong when her distance from her loved one (Mr. Rochester) was killing her. Finally, she broke down and started to hear the voice of Mr. Rochester calling her name. I don't think Jane was going crazy; I think she just heard what she wanted to hear. When she asked for guidance: "Show me, show me the path!" I entreated of Heaven." the voice of human in need of help calling her name. It just so happens to be that the timing Jane heard the voice of Mr. Rochester was when she was reconsidering St. John's offer: to marry him and go to India. Luckily, Jane realized that she couldn't run away from her problems that she had left behind in Thornfield Hall.

Running away from your problems isn't a very good idea because when you run away you leave behind the possibility for change without your consent. What I mean by this is that, when you leave or run away you take yourself out of the possibility of changing outcomes. One I know for sure is that you will always cross the same path you used to get away from a problem. For example, what would have happened if she would have stayed and become Mr. Rochester's other women. Would she have met her cousins? Would have Mr. Rochester lost his eyesight and hand? Would she have become an independent woman? Also these question lead to a decision. Jane took the risk of running away. Yes, Mr. Rochester lost his eyesight and hand but that didn't matter to Jane. Jane had earned so much more in return.

Things happen for a reason!

"Before I left my bed in the morning, little Adele came running in to tell me that the great horse-chestnut at the bottom of the orchard had been struck by lightning in the night, and half of it split away."

I think that this part of the book is going to make Jane paranoid. This, for her, is going to make her think that her and Mr. Rochester aren't meant to be together, because the exact place where he proposed got struck by lighting, and the tree split. When I first read that I was like, "Uh oh!" I automatically thought that she was going to take that as an omen and tell Mr. Rochester that she doesn't want to marry him, because they will never be happy. In a way, I think this is true. There are just some people that will never be happy together no matter how hard they try. I've seen it in real life and in soap operas. Well I believe that if God really wants them to be together, then they will find a way and they will eventually be together. But EVERYTHING TAKES TIME! You can't rush things. There's a reason for everything like Mira Kirshenbaum says. If something bad happens, there's always a reason why it did. I think the tree split for a reason. But I think if Jane starts getting paranoid then that's stupid. She's just going to make mess everything up. If its meant to happen, its meant to happen. And if its not, its not.