Nothing makes me madder than when people are mean to a sweet orphaned child. Cinderella was treated badly. Harry Potter had to sleep in the cupboard under the stairs. We read these stories all the time. Jane Eyre begins just like many of them, with a young girl struggling to live in a house where no one loves her. Her parents are dead, her aunt hates having to take care of her, and her cousins are mean bullies. But somehow, Jane makes it. This story was amazing. I will admit that I tried to read this book twice before I actually got through it, but I loved every step of the way. It's not as easy to zip through a classics as it is to read, say, The Luxe, but it's very rewarding.
Jane moves from her aunt's house to a school called Lowood. Lowood is home to other orphan girls, and here Jane gets an education and actually makes a friend or two. The reader then follows Jane on the journey of her life. Jane moves on and finds herself eventually as a young woman traveling to Thornfield Hall to be a governess to a bubbly young girl named Adele.
Thornfield Hall is creepy. Old and sort of empty, Jane wonders about the people who live and work there. She doesn't meet the master of the house, and the servants say he doesn't come around a lot. There are strange screams and cries and laughter that Jane hears, too, which concern her a bit. Once Jane becomes a resident at Thornfield, though, her life will never be the same.
I definitely recommend this book. I really loved it. It's a gothic novel and has spooky settings and situations. There's a little mystery, and even more, there's love. Ghosts and love in one book is a lot of fun. The language was great, and I really got to know and like Jane as a person. She is calm and humble, and I learned a lot by watching her deal with all kinds of people.
Grade: A
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