Wuthering Heights Emily Brontes haunting novel Wuthering Heights tells a tale fraught with obsession revenge heartache and ultimately grief Heathcliff a man who as a child was adopted into a wealthy family falls in love with Catherine the daughter of Mr Earnshaw the man who adopted him Mr Earnshaw becomes quite fond of Heathcliff and grows to love him even more than his biological son Hindley Life is good for Heathcliff until everything changes with the death of Mr Earnshaw Hindley inherits Wut
Books Reading and Learning in Wuthering Heights In Emily Brontes book Wuthering Heights books reading and learning seem to play a pivotal role in each characters persona Heathcliff and the elder Catherine seem to despise reading Catherine does say after all that she took her dingy volume by the scoop and hurled it into the dog kennel vowing I hated a good book Chapter III page 26 The real objects of their resentment however are the moral and religious lessons that are forced upon them via books
Old man and the sea A young boy who is probably in his teens named Manolin is Santiagos apprentice and devoted attendant The old man first took him out on a boat when he was merely five years old Manolin is referred to as the boy Like Santiago Manolin comes from a family of fishermen and has long admired Santiago in his trade Although Manolins father has forbidden him to go fishing with Santiago because of the old mans bad luck Manolin nevertheless continues to visit Santiago and to help him in
Reading a story can sometimes be like reliving a piece of history Through symbolism authors can bring to life a piece of the past and show it through someone elses eyes Ernest Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea tells the story of Jesus Christ in a simple and plain way Hemmingway who was not religious uses subtle symbolism throughout the story and adds Christian imagery to his writing Santiago was once a strong and well respected man in his community but now washed away by age he is fighting f
Jane Eyre a novel written by Charlotte Bronte takes place in the early 19th century and moves throughout five locations in England The tone is very romantic Jane searches for belonging and finds it in the end Jane Eyre the protagonist and narrator of the novel comes off as very smart and honest but she is a plain girl who has a lot of suffering in her life She meets many people who try to oppress her independence but she keeps her assertiveness and morals Jane becomes employed by Edward Rochest
We are made strong by what we overcome These words said by John Burroughsv directly apply to the main character in Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre The character referred to is Jane Eyre herself who grows exponentially in the novel From an abused child to a strong young woman Jane sheds her skin to become what always lied beneath In Chapter 21 Jane visits the place of her childhood and proves her newborn strength I had once vowed that I would never call her aunt again I thought it no sin to forget a
Alices Adventures in Wonderland As one grows older the loss of childhood innocence becomes inevitable The novel Alices Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll is a magical tale of a young girls dreamy journey into a land filled with mythical creatures and imagination Alice while sitting on the riverbank with her sister falls asleep and enters the land of Wonderland She has encounters with creatures such as the White Rabbit who she is following the Mad Hatter who she has an interesting tea par
Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day drowsily reading over her sisters shoulder when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running by her The White Rabbit pulls out a pocket watch exclaims that he is late and pops down a rabbit hole Alice follows the White Rabbit down the hole and comes upon a great hallway lined with doors She finds a small door that she opens using a key she discovers on a nearby table Through the door she sees a beautiful garden and Alice begins to cry
The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is a story about self discovery and the rite of passage for young Jody Baxter The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings She wrote the novel about what she knew best she lived in north central Florida where the novel is set The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939 The story outlines the life of the Baxter family The story is told over the course of a year in the Baxters life The story is based on young Jody growing
Suzzane Fisher Staples book Shabanu Daughter of the Wind is about a young girl who is 11 and lives in Pakistan with her parents older sister her aunt and her cousins She lives in a desert where there is always fear of not having water She belongs to a family that herds camels Shabanus sister Phulan is to wed a guy named Hamir After Phulans wedding Shabanu is to wed Hamirs brother Murad It is when Shabanu and Phulan visit a watering hole to get water for the family Phulan gets kidnapped by two g