Jane Eyre: Helen Burns

Helen Burns is Jane's best friend at Lowend, at first. Jane is simply awed by how perfect of a person Helen is. Helen is constantly victimized by the teacher Miss Scatcherd. For even the simplest infraction, Miss Scatcherd calls Helena out. Helen has such a good attitude about it, it's verging creepy, though. She is thankful that someone is there to call her out. She tries to even see it from from Miss Scatcherd's view. Jane is a bit confused by Helen's perfection, but still in awe. Helen dies pretty quickly, although, in the middle of the night. Turns out she dies in Jane's arms. That's not creeeeeeeeeepy...at all. I think that Helen had a very big impact on Jane's life in a very short time. Helen teaches Jane a lot about loving your enemies and how to be a better person even when someone else is not. She slowly molded Jane into being a better person and showing her that she should always do her best even when circumstances seem poor. I would just like to say this blog was incredibly difficult to write due to the fact my name is Helena, not Helen. I think I put an 'a' on every single Helen I typed....