Jane Eyre

I decided I would read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte. It's a great book about a governess in the 1800s. I have gotten around 30 pages in. The language is very different and archaic. It's very wordy and sometimes I find myself reading over certain passages and sentences because they are so long and have a ton of adjectives and interruptions. So far, I have understood that the main character is named Jane Eyre. She is an orphan, her mother's brother was a man named Mr. Reed. He died when she was one and she has grown up with Mrs. Reed and her three children, Jane's cousins. Jane hates her life at the house and she hates all her cousins. She feels like an outcast and wants to get out. In the first scene, she is not allowed to be with her cousins and aunts in the drawing room so she hides in the breakfast room behind a curtain reading. Her boy cousin, John "Jack" Reed finds her and hits her because that's what he continually does, and then throws a book at her head. She gets punished and sent to the red room where Mr. Reed died and where everyone is scared to enter. She gets scared because she is only 10 and she calls for help. The nurse and servant come but so does her evil aunt. The next thing you know Jane is sick, visited by an apothecary, and is shunned from the family for nearly three months. After about three months, she is told by her evil Aunt that she will be attending school. That is where I left off. This book is very interesting and really is a classic. The copy I am reading is from 1983 and was $1.75. If I went to buy that same book now it would probably cost me 20 dollars, things really change! The type is really small so it takes me a really long time to read the pages so 30 pages seems like a little but it was a lot of reading. Until next week, Allie