The Importance of Bessie and Miss Temple

All her childhood Jane was considered an outcast. She was considered ugly, she was unloved and really unwanted. She was orphaned. She was getting physically abused by John Reed and verbally abused by everyone else. When she Bessie started treating her kindly things started to change. She had a friend and someone to talk to. I see Bessie as a mother figure to Jane. She was kind to her and made her feel wanted. Bessie helped Jane find herself. If the character Bessie had not been involved in the book, I do not think Jane would have turned out the way she did. A kind and caring woman.

She was never accepted by a group of people until she went to boarding school at Lowood. There is where she made friends, got an education, and felt accepted. Miss Temple helped her a lot. She was there for Jane when she got embarrassed in front of the girls at school. When Jane gets a job teaching at the school , Miss Temple becomes her closet friends. After Miss. Temple gets married and leaves the school and Jane knows she should leave to.

The characters of Bessie and MIss Temple are small characters but they were important characters to novel Jane Eyre.

Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Margaret Smith. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998. Print.