The book I read was Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. She was an English novelist and poet who lived from 1818-1848 which is why the novel has an "old English" feel to it, but all in all it's a really good book with a great story. The novel begins by introducing a man named Mr. Lockwood who has rented Thrushcross Grange, a property in northern England. This is where he meets his landlord, Heathcliff, an intimidating, wealthy man who lives in the old manor of Wuthering Heights. While staying at Thrushcross Grange, Lockwood asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of Heathcliff. She does and he writes down her words in his diary. She recalls of a time when she was a young girl and a servant at Wuthering Heights for a man named Mr. Earnshaw. A numerous amount of events happen between this point and through the end of the book as Nelly tells her story. One of the main events of the plot is the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Okay, so Mr. Earnshaw went to Liverpool, England and brought back Heathcliff, an orphan. When they first meet, Heathcliff is looked down upon by Catherine and her brother because he is a very messy, bitter, and dark person (so to speak), and because they are from an upper class society, while Heathcliff descends from peasants. Also Hindley, Catherine's older brother, feels as if Heathcliff has stolen his father's affection and resents him for it. Eventually Heathcliff and Catherine become friends, but as the years progress, she starts "hanging out" with a more suitable young man named Edgar Linton, and the two become close. Sometime later, Edgar proposes to her and she accepts but also confesses that her true love is Heathcliff, but that she can't marry him because it would "degrade" her and lower her position on the social ladder. She says "Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same....". Heathcliff is listening and only hears the part about her not being able to marry him and then he leaves Wuthering Heights and begins making his fortune.
1.) Would you resent someone who came from an impoverished life without parents or would you accept him/her into your family and show as much affection as possible?
2.) Do you think Heathcliff would have stayed in Wuthering Heights if he listened to ALL of what Catherine was saying?
6 comments:
1. I think I would accept them into our family and treat them with the same love as everyone else. In the beginning it may be awkward or difficult to welcome in a total stranger, but eventually it wouldn't matter.
1. I would accept him into the family because he has never had a feeling of affection in his life and it is a good feeling to have.
1. I would accept him into my family because everyone deserves the care and love of a family in their life. However, I think it would be easier to accept them into the family today than it would have been back then because today, people are applauded, not scoffed at, for helping the less fortunate.
1. I believe that i would accept someone from that life into my family. Sure, it may be a different experience than what is normal, but that would change and eventually they would truly be apart of a family that cares about them.
I would like to think that i would openly accept someone less fortunate into my family but like Abby said that was a different time. Also it would be extremely hard to adjust my life to someone outside of my family weather they were of the same social standing as me or not.
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