After reading Jane Eyre During the summer holiday，I’ve read a simplified edition of Jane Eyre, a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It is a first-person narrative of the title character. The novel is set somewhere in the north of England in the mid-19th century, and goes through five period of Jane’s life: Jane's childhood at Gateshead, where she is emotionally and physically abused by her aunt and cousins; her education at Lowood School, where she acquires friends but also suffers poverty and oppression; her time as the governess of Thornfield Manor, where she falls in love with her master, Edward Rochester; her time with the Rivers family, during which her cousin, St John Rivers, proposes to her; and the finale with her reunion with, and marriage to Rochester. Although it is a love story, the most impressive thing after reading is some precious quality of Jane. Jane, as said by her, is poor, obscure, plain and little. But she is a women with an original, a vigorous, an expanded mind. That’s why Rochester fell in love with her. And that’s what the writer wants to convey. Nothing can be more precious than a spirit in pursuit of the equality between genders with strong self-respect of a woman at that time. Here are the two parts of the book that I’d like to share with you: 1. If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends. 2. I have as much soul as you——and full as much heart! And if god had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at god’s feet, equal——as we are!”