Finnally got around to reading some more of Jane Eyre. After Mason's injury from Grace Poole, Mr.Rochester and Jane start walking in the garden. Mr.Rochester starts to talk about a situation, where a mistaken was done but redemption is needed. Rochester asks Jane her opinion where she then replies that a person should seek redemption from God and not another person.
Jane then, gets informed that her cousin John commits suicide and that her aunt is very ill. Jane goes back to Gateshead to see her aunt. While she was there she gets to see Bessie, and learns more information on her other two cousins. Georgiana and Eliza have not been talking, ever since Eliza messed up Georgiana's plan to elope. Mrs.Reed gave Jane a letter from her uncle John Eyre. This letter is three years overdue. On the letter her uncle wanted to adopt Jane and make her his heir, to inherit his money. While Jane was at Gateshead she wanted to mend her relationship with her aunt, but her aunt makes no effort. Her aunt ends up dying. After the death of Jane's aunt, Georgina goest h to live with her uncle and Eliza ends up going to a convent. Georgina ends up marrying a wealthy man and Eliza becomes mother superior of her convent.
When Jane gets back to Thornfield, she is happy to get back to Mr.Rochester. When she arrives there, she surprises herself by expressing her happiness of returning. After having settled in for two weeks back at Thornfield, Mr. Rochester invites Jane to talk a walk in the garden with him. There they sit on a bench under a chestnut tree. Mr.Rochester tells Jane that he is planning on marrying Ms. Ingram. When Jane hears this, she tells Mr. Rochester, how she feels towards him. Mr.Rochester said that he only brought up his proposal to Ms. Ingram to make Jane jealous. He proposes to Jane and Jane accepts. A storm comes and Jane and Mr.Rochester go in and the Chestnut tree gets hit by lightening, splitting it in two. The Chestnut tree is foreshadowing what will end up happening to Jane and Mr.Rochester's relationship.
Preparations for the wedding go from bad to worse. Mrs. Fairfax doesn't approve. Jane doesn't feel comfortable with her status compared to Mr.Rochester, so she decides to write to her uncle and see if she could still become his heir. Jane felt like if she could get her uncles inheritance she could feel more equal to Mr. Rochester. The evening before the wedding, Jane has horrible dreams and when she awoke she saw a black figure tearing up her wedding veil. When she tells Mr. Rochester, tries to reassure her that her dreams were probably nothing and that the person who tore the veil was Grace Poole. Mr.Rochester says he will explain the events that have happened after they have been married for a year and one day.
