At the beginning of Jane Eyre I cant say that I was really enjoying the novel. The tone in the first part of the book felt very gloomy and depressed. Jane Eyre was tortured at her home in Gateshead, Mrs. Reed was horrible to Jane and John and Georginia treated her no better. It was depressing to read about a ten year old being treated the way she was. One of the worst things about Jane's experience at Gateshead was when she fell ill in the red room and she told the doctor that she was afraid of the ghost in the room. Things didn't really get better once she arrived at Lowood. She was feed little, the winter was a miserable time and what Mrs. Reed said about her being a brat had followed her to her school. The first couple of chapters were a bit dull, and the book felt a little too long, however; the novel got substantially better once Jane put the ad in the paper and moved to Thornfield. Almost immediately the book changed to a more upbeat and lighthearted tone, Jane seemed happier and the plot got more interesting, especially once Mr. Rochester arrived. In the first scene that Rochester was in I was intrigued, he brought more energy to Jane's character and gave the reader something to become interested with.
It seemed like Jane was a different person when Mr. Rochester arrived, when she found him on the side of the road she went to his aid and within the first meeting you could tell that they were both interested by each other there was already a type of tension between them. For me it was at this part that I really got into the book. There was definitely a plot developing.
As the book continued and we found out that Mr. Rochester was the man that Jane had helped on the horse, and this was very exciting for me because I really enjoy romance novels. The tension that Jane and Mr. Rochester have together in all of their scenes was very entertaining and it is often pretty funny. One thing that I don't like about their dialogue is that it can get very confusing sometimes when Mr. Rochester is talking I really dont know what he is talking about and that can get really frustrating. Despite that however I think that Charlotte Bronte does a very good job of introducing interesting characters, Grace Poole is a mystery to the reader and its exciting to have a bad guy, the fact that we know that she was the one that lite Mr. Rochester's bed on fire, and than acted completely normal about it is pretty creepy and Bronte does a good job of creating a spine tingling feeling about Grace.
I am very excited to see where the book is going from here we ended with Mr. Rochester saying goodnight my--- , and a sense that Grace Poole is a servant at the house for a reason. I cant wait to see where the book goes from here.