Jane Eyre (beginning)

A few days ago I was assigned to do an independent reading assignment in English. I chose the book Jane Eyre. In the book many events have taken place. Jane Eyre is ten in the beginning of the book and is not loved by her Aunt Reed and her Aunt’s children. For example, in the beginning of the book Jane gets caught hiding behind a curtain reading, by her cousin John Reed. John Reed is a mean boy who is always finding reasons to yell at Jane. When he finds her behind the curtain reading he takes the book away from her. Then he proceeds to throw the book at her, causing her to fall and hit her head on the door handle cutting it open. Jane gets so mad that she “attacks” John. This makes her Aunt Reed lock her up in the Red Room. This is the room where Jane’s uncle died. Jane ends up getting frightened and has a fit. Her Aunt Reed calls in an apothecary, Mr. Lloyd to look at Jane and to try and get some answers about why she “attacked” John. Soon after Mr. Lloyd looks at her, Aunt Reed sends for Mr. Brocklehurst, the owner of Lowood School. Aunt Reed wants to send Jane away to Lowood to get rid of her. When Jane arrives at Lowood it is rainy, windy, and dark out and she is fed and sent strait to bed. Jane goes to her classes the next day and is immediately moved into a higher class. Soon after arriving at Lowood Jane meets Helen Burns, a girl who is older and wiser than Jane, in the garden reading. Helen and Jane soon become good friends. Miss Temple, one of the teachers and the superintendent, decides one day to give the girls bread and cheese after the breakfast of the day was disgusting. After Jane is at Lowood for 3 months, Mr. Brocklehurst visits and humiliates Jane in front of the whole school, calling her a liar and saying that she is a bad child. After the winter had ended the 45 of the 80 girls at the school became sick with Typhoid. Many of the girls died, this was due to semi-starvation and neglected colds. One night Helen was very sick, so Jane visited her, she was staying in Miss Temple’s room. This was the night that Helen died. Eight years after Jane’s arrival Miss Temple gets married and leaves Lowood. This upsets Jane very much. Jane spends eight years total in Lowood, six as a student and two as a teacher before she puts an advertisement in the Herold and Mrs. Fair fax writes back and says that Jane could be a governess at Thornfield. Jane was only 18 years old and she was willing to teach a student 14 or younger. Jane decided to take the job at Thornfield and receives thirty pound a year instead of the fifteen pounds at Lowood. This is where Jane meets her pupil Miss Adela. Miss Adela is French and is only ten years old. This is as far as I have gotten for now.