I have an active imagination, and when I'm reading something, I am in the story experiencing it. This was fine until I was laying in bed reading some of the parts of Jane Eyre where people are getting hurt and almost murdered! I didn't know anything about the mystery, so I would lay in bed thinking about all the weird stuff going on and it was hard to fall asleep!
Every day I would go to work and just anticipate when I could go home and keep reading to find out what would happen next.
I was so into the book that it was starting to stress me out. Especially the part when she is deciding whether or not to live with this man (I'm trying not to give anything away since the movie is coming out soon). As she was deciding, I wondered to myself, why shouldn't she? They are in love. Then at the Young Women General Broadcast this past Saturday, someone brought it up, and I finally realized that Jane Eyre teaches a valuable lesson: No one else would care what she did... except God; and He has given commandments, in this case, marriage. She stayed true to herself, her virtue, and her Father in Heaven even though no one on earth cared what she chose.So, I'm grateful to Jane Eyre for holding to her standards. In the end, everything worked out as it should. I think it is one of the most romantic endings ever! I am excited to see the new movie, and I hope they keep it true to what Charlotte Bronte wrote. If not, I'll just have to stick with the Masterpiece Theater version.
