Wednesday, May 14, 2008

As Lockwood recovers from his sickness, he realizes that Nelly has come to the end of her story and he now wants to move from Thrushcross.



He traveles to Wuthering Heights to tell Heathcliff of his departure and wishes that Catherine had fallen in love with him. He decided to stay another 6 months and one day decides to visit Nelly and ask about Catherine. Nelly tells him that Catherine has found someone else and cannot wait until they are married. Heathcliff finally leavs Catherine in peace. However, one night Heathcliff goes for a walk and becomes suddenly almost possessed. Once again, a supernatural event takes place and Heathcliff starts murmuring Catherine's name. He dies and Catherine and her new finace soon marry.



After all this, Lockwood feels the sudden urge to leave and does so. He ends up in the backyard among the graves of Edgar, Catherine, and Heathcliff; where it all began. People say they see Heathcliff's ghost but he seems to walk the Earth in good spirits. Creepy.









This was the most difficult book out of the bunch that I chose to read. It was good and the story plot was very intriguing but I got a few things out of it.


I believe that in this book, the motto of "Like mother, like daughter" comes into play because both Catherine and young Catherine were the obsession of two men and aty the samw time they were saiffering because of it. However, in the end, Miss Catherine ended up being happy, a luxury that her mother never had.

I also found it peculiar that when Lockwood stepped out int he backyard, he was among the graves of Catherine, Heathcliff, and Edhar, it was almost as if he was intertwined with their past just liek they were intertwined with each other, for life and death, and even after.

Monday, May 12, 2008

After Linton is taken away to Thrushcross, young Catherine is heartbroken about it and Nelly keeps tabs on Linton by asking the housekeeper about him and learns that Heathcliff is mean to him and Linton is always sick and weak. On Catherine's birthday, Catherine and Nelly go birdhunting and Catherine wanders off to Wuthering Heughts. Nelly finds her talking to Heathcliff and he mentions to her that he has a son. Catherine wants to mett him but Nelly tries to tell her that its not a good idea that she goes with him. Unble to stop her, they go to meet Linton which Catherine has no idea that it's him and it's her cousin. Heathcliff tells Nelly that he hopes they will get married and they soon start to exchange letters. Nelly finds out about this and immediately terminates their connection. Edagr becomes sick and spends less time with Catherine so Nelly takes over. One day Catherine ends up on Heathcliff's property and he sees her and demands that she vistits Linton. She goes and he begins to talk about marriage which annoys her and she pushes his chair. He then begins to whine and accuses her of assulting him. In my opinion he's alot like his father. After Nelly and Catherine leave, Nelly catches a cold. During the day Catherine takes care of her father and Nelly but at night, she travels to see Linton.

Nelly soons finds out about this and then Edgar finds out. During her story, she stops to explain to Lockwood that all this that she has just explained to him happened just a little over a year ago. Lockwood admits that he might fall in love with the young Catherine but doubts that anything will ever arise from that.

Nelly goes on to finsih her story, telling him that Linton continued to become weaker but assured them that he would be fine. Edgar's health continues to get worse and Linton is pretrified because Heathcliff is forcing him to ask for Catherine's hand in marriage and is afraid she will say no. Edgar ends up dying and is buried next to his wife. Catherine moves to Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff demands that she works for her stay. She states that they truly are in love and she takes care of Linton until he dies. After hsi death, she remains at the estate, keeping to herself.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

So after Lockwood becomes sick at Wuthering Heights, he begs Nelly to continue on with her story of Heathcliff and Catherine.

So Catherine marries an Edgar Linton, even though she has secret feelings for Heathcliff and him the same for her. So one day he comes to Thrushcross Grange and when Catherine sees Heathcliff she immediately gets all excited and of course her husband notices becoming very jealous. Then her and Isabella, her sister in-law begin to visit him at Wuthering Heights and he begins to call at Thrushcross. Isabella ends up falling in love with Heathcliff even though she knows he loves Catherine but Heathcliff pays no attention to her. One day Nelly finds Heathcliff embracing Isabella and then Catherine makes him spill his guts about how he feels for Isabella. He then turns around ands tells her she has wronged him by marrying Edgar. Then Edgar and him get into a fist fight and Heathcliff leaves and Edgar then forces Catherine to pick between the two of them, she locks herself in a room an doesn't eat for a few days. After a few days Catherine basically goes crazy and talks alot botu death and mentions that her spirit will not rest until she is with Heathcliff.

Isabella then moves in with Heathcliff at his estate and this enrages Edgar. After Catherine recovers from her illness, she finds out that she is pregnant. One day when Nelly goes Heathcliff's estate to visit Isabella, Heathcliff begs Nelly to let him see Catherina, after threatening her, she finally decides to give a letter to Catherine from Heathcliff.

After giving the letter to Catherine and her and Heathcliff having a heart to heart, they finally forgive each other and she gives birth to a child named Catherin two months premature and Caherina, her mother, ends up dying and this hurts Heathcliff greatly.

Isabella then gives birth to Heathcliff's son, Linton and then moves away to London for twelve years. Heathcliff finds out where they both are but doesn't do anything about it. Isabella then dies when her son is 12 years old. Young Catherine who is now 13 years of age is smart and quick. He father, Edgar doesn't let her off Thrushcross, howveer when he learns of Isabella's death, he goes to London to retreive her son. Leaving Catherine in Nelly's hands ansd she is finally allowed to go explore and stumbles upon Wuthering Heights.
When Edgar comes back with Linton, Heathcliff comes asking for his son and Edgar agrees to bring Linton to him. When Linton arrives to Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff shows no affection towards Linton and talks adly about his mother. Linton begs to be taken back to Thrushcross but nelly leaves him there.

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Ah! So sorry I haven't been posting, but I'm back!

Okay so my last book that I'm reading is called Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, the sister of Charlotte Bronte (coincidence much?) and it's about a man named Mr. Lockwood who rents out an estate from a Mr. Heathcliff who owns the large estate called Wuthering Heights. While he's there he finds out about the history of Mr. Heathcliff, the story that lies in the walls of the estate and also, a certain Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and the passionate love that they share. The story is told through retrospect and recordings of journal entries by Mr. Lockwood. The word "wuthering" as described in the book as a "provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather" (46) which has some significance because during his stay there the weather was always bad and cold and rainy. Which in my opinion could also have something to do with the stiory itself and the events that take place.

Anyways when Mr. Lockwood first arrives to meet with Mr. Heathcliff, Heathcliff is rather rude to him and Lockwood gets a certain uneasy feel about the Wuthering Heights estate. He is invited to attend a get together one night and ends up staying in a room because he cannot get back to his apartment due to bad weather. That's when he first finds out about the name Catherine when he sees her old and dusty journals near his bedside and that night an event of the supernatural occurs where he believes he sees the ghost of Catherine or he hears something. Which I connect back to Emily's sister's novel Jane Eyre in which a supernatural event also occurs.

From then the history of the estate and its people begins to unfold. Lockwood learns of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff and a bunch of twists and ties between people.