What would Jane do: Home and School

What would Jane do?

When I was 16, events out of my control, I was forced to leave home. It’s not that my parents were dead, which, even though a dread the thought, maybe would have been easier if they were. My parents were divorced and involved with the wrong crowds and the wrong substances. When I was young, 9-10 years old, I noticed a change in my mother. When she became that other person, her entire entity was gone. Her moods were erratic and her behavior was strange and uncontrollable. She would get verbally and mentally abusive and shunned and push me away from my sisters and the rest of my family (all because I had a different father than my older siblings) the way that Jane is pushed away from her cousins. I fell into my school work, and I have stayed there since, focusing on what makes me happy. 

When my mother kicked me out, my relief was school and finding my own home, my own place to be. Similar to how Jane found her own place in her new school. Did either of us really want to be where we were? Probably not, but we stuck through it and moved on. What would Jane have done in my situation? The best that she could to keep herself motivated to move on.  Throughout the entire book, Jane struggles with finding and balancing the different aspects of herself and of her life, ultimately she chose to do something that makes her the happiest, and that was marrying someone she knew she loved and someone she knew loved her. For me, it was making everything my own.