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.

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