Jane Eyre: the rediscovery of the voice Jane has endured hell. Indeed, much of this novel becomes a test of what he can endure. Helen Burns and Miss Temple teach Jane the stiff British upper lip and holy patience. So Jane, star pupil that she is, exemplifies stoicism, while surviving humiliation after humiliation. Jane's soul cowers deep within her body and waits for the bombing to end. Only at Moor's End, where he teaches and grows, does his soul come out. Stop enduring and start living. Jane begins to become an "I" in her 19th year. In the sentence "Reader, I married him." Jane clarifies who is responsible for her life and marriage; she is. That “I” stands resolutely as the subject of the sentence that commands the verb and is attached to the object “he”. She is no longer passive, waiting and sitting to get Rochester's attention. Rather he goes out and takes it. He has come a long way since the beginning of the novel. In Gateshead, Jane tries to find direction in her life. His little “I” scolds Mrs. Reed and chastises John. Like the later Jane, she knows this...