Culver Creek is comparable to that of Lowood in Jane Eyre; however, Culver Creek is a lot more up beat than Lowood will ever be. Just like Lowood and Culver Creek is a boarding school. Culver Creek used to be all for males like how Lowood is for all females. The indengenous forested areas however have different affects on the plots of the stories. Pudge, Takumi, Colonel, Lara, and Alaska use the forest to do mysterious dangerous expulsionable things while Jane uses the forest just to observe and have fun in. The different forests give different moods to their stories and allow the characters to develop off of these moods. Culver Creek and Lowood both have challenging academic loads that they put on their students. These loads produce different outcomes in each novel. At Culver Creek it produces an environment that is competive and drives many to rebel to let lose in their free time while at Lowood the hard academic load produces ladies who are uptight and subservient to what others tell them to do. Both Culver Creek and Lowood have a death take place while the main character is there that is important to the story. Both schools have strict head masters who want to catch you doing anything and everything wrong. However the Eagle is sane and tries to be reasonable and allows the students to get away with breaking rules in times of death. Also Culver Creek and Lowood have different food situations. Pudge finds the food at Culver Creek just delectibale and the best he has ever had helping him with the transition into the life their where as at Lowood the food is horrible and makes the situation and transition to life there even worse.