Thornfield Burning

It’s like a normal day at Thornfield, where I am working for my master called Mr. Rochester. He treats his servants very well and I am one of them. But the past weeks he has retired and has become very nervous. I think it’s because of his lover Mrs. Eyre. She ran away a month ago because Mr. Rochester’s wife, a mad woman, was hidden in the house. If Jane Eyre doesn’t come back he will get more and more depressed.

I get up at 6 ‘clock as usually and bring my master a cup of tea like every day and then do my work outdoors in the garden. I am cutting the shrubs, when I suddenly see flames coming out of the second floor. I run in to warn the other servants, Adele, a previous pupil of Jane Eyre, Mrs. Fairfax the manager of the house, and surely Mr. Rochester, but the fire is already raging in the 1^st floor and at the top of the house. After a few minutes the heat has got unbearable and I go out to the others although I don’t know anything of my master, who is probably still in the house. Outside I see a strange woman on the roof, perhaps Mr. Rochester’s mad wife. What she is doing I ask myself. She runs to the end of the roof and jumps down, when she sees Mr. Rochester, who wants to save her. I can’t look at the woman or you better say what is left of her. Afterwards my master looses his bearings and faints a few seconds later. We take a ladder and bring him to the doctor as fast as possible, who saves his life, but can’t help his eyes, which are destroyed.

Finally I get fired, because Mr. Rochester only wants to have two servants with whom he lives in a house 30 miles away waiting for Jane Eyre.

Newspaperreport

London (SE). Bill Sikes, the most proble murderer of nancy, died in front of manyinhabitans after a persecution of the police. An inviolent person called Fagin was arersted and interragated. The missing boy oliver was also saved of after the abduction by the leader of a pickpocket gang.

Yesterday at 12 o'clock the withe dog of Bill Sikes brought the police to the hidding place, where over ten children were hidding. This children were allso members of the pickpocket gang. As the police arrived, Bill took Oliver and he escaped with him. The police and a crowed of people followed him, until he had an accident after a escape over the roofes of the houses. At teh accident he hanged himself. It was a succesfull night for the police, because they also cought Fagin, the leader of the pickpocket gang.
Oliver, who was a few weeks in captivity brought back to his stepfather Mr. Brownlow, who we interviewed: "I'm so glad that Oliver is saved. I'm sure, now that Oliver lives at me, he will have the best live that I can give him. He is like a son for me, which i've never got."
Now Oliver lives in the big house of his stepfather Mr. Brownlow, who is very rich. Oliver met Mr. Brownlow after he was charged to be member pickpocket gang, but Mr. Brownlow knew that it was not Oliver who robbed him, that it was another boy. So he came the first time to Mr. Brownlow, but then he was cought again by fagin and the pickpocket gang.
After a trial in London Fagin was arrestet for 15 years. The judges orderes that, because Fagin leaded the pickpocket gang for over 25 years. Oliver visited him after a few days.

Interview

I = Interviewer

G = Gordan Steller > 25 years

At the end of the 19^th century I am interviewing a worker of the biggest company in London.

I: Hello, I am a reporter of The New York Times and I am writing an article about the mass production of steel in this company. What about the human conditions at the work?

G: Hello! In my opinion we work too hard and too long. The attendants force us to work 12-14 hours a day for a few pounds. On one hand we shouldn’t work under these circumstances and I’m not the only one who thinks so, but on the other hand we need the money to buy at least a little bit bread and maybe some coffee.

I: Why don’t you rebel against these cruel, mostly rich people! Perhaps you could reach goals, for example getting more food or less work time.

G: No. That’s completely rubbish. There is no possibility to demonstrate in the street or in underground groups. As a result we would loose our urgently needed jobs. And that would be fatal, because most workers have no special abilities or education. A demonstration also could be punished with a trial or a death penalty.

I: What about the human rights? Are they of no worth here?

G: No! The employers don’t care about us! Most workers die between 30 and 40 years of age. Our children begin to word with 7 years and we have to sleep in a dump hole. No! Here are no human rights!

I: Thank you! I hope my article will change something in your position.