The First Half of Jane Eyre

After reading the beginning of Jane Eyre I think that the book is ok.  Right at first I thought the book was very slow but as I kept reading it got better.  I felt bad for Jane when she was at her aunt's house.  She was treated extremely unfairly just because she was poor.  I don't understand why her aunt would treat her that way because she is still family.  I would never treat my cousins the way that Jane was treated.  I also thought that it was terrible how the owner of the school Jane went to treated all of the girls.  You would think that if someone owned a school for orphans they would care for them.  It seemed like he didn't care if they were all dying of typhus.  I also wondered if in order to teach at that school if you needed a degree or something.  Jane became a teacher after so many years.  Did she graduate from the school first?  I also found it strange that when Jane was a teacher she still needed to get permission to leave the school.  Jane mentioned it a couple of times.  I wasn't sure how much freedom or power teachers had back then.  Jane was only 18 years old and she was already a teacher.  Overall as I keep reading I am enjoying the book more and more.  It just took a little while to get into it.