2) Wuthering Heights

       I am reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. I am just over half-way finished with the book. Since I last posted a lot is happened, the book goes back in time before Catherine  died when Heathcliff was in love with her. Catherine gets transformed into a lady and marries Edgar, a guy she met while staying at Thruscross Grange after receiving an injury, Heathcliff still in love with her inacts revenge by eloping with Edgars sister Isabella. He is very abusive and evil towards her to get revenge on Edgar. Several years later Heathcliff sneaks in to see Catherine, and Edgar finds out so he makes her choose one of them. She locks herself in her room and says she is going to die, she later gives birth to her and Edgars child named Catherine and dies shortly after. Isabella gives birth to her and Heathcliffs son Linton. The book then goes on to tell about Catherine and Linton, as well as Harreton a cousin of Catherine.

       I definetly like this book a lot better than before, even though there's so many characters its hard to keep them straight. I like it because it keeps you entertained with so much happening...it never gets boring. The author wrote this because she wanted to show that people can be good and evil at the same time. Heathcliff was once abused by his landlord Mr. Linton and everyone else at Wuthering Heights and was deeply in love with Catherine so he seemed innocent. Until Catherine married Edgar, then he turned evil by abusing Isabella and even injuring Mr. Linton. So someone who was once innocent turned evil. What I just said could also be the theme of the book, as well as Heathcliffs love for Catherine.

      Still the best character to me is Heathcliff because he does evil things, but you still feel bad for him. He is viewed as both a hero and a villian.  "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and [Edgar’s] is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." This is an important quote becuase Catherine wanted to be with Heathcliff more than Edgar, but she chose him because he could give her a more luxurious life.

      I don't have very many questions, just what will happen to Heathcliff now that Catherine is dead?

                                                                                                       - Tiffany Ryan