What are your three favorite things about your book?

I finally finished Wuthering Heights last week and I really liked it. I'll write more about it later though. One of my favorite things about Wuthering Heights was the character development. Emily Bronte's characters weren't just people with names, you actually got to know them. The book told you about their past, so know who the character really is and the reasons they do the things they do. In some books you don't know anything about the characters but in this book you know everything about them. Another one of my favorite things is that Wuthering Heights is told like a story. Nelly Dean narrates almost the whole book. Its is told from Nelly's point of veiw so you see everything through her eyes. Since she is telling you the story of how everything happened, a lot of the book is set in the past. The best thing about the book was reality of it. The characters were put through torture and nothing came to magically save them from it. Wuthering Heights had no "deus ex machina" or god by machine. The characters had to live with the torture. The characters in the books were also very real. They all had flaws, like Catherines selfishness or Hareton's illiteracy. Obviously, none of the characters were perfect and that made the story so much more real to me because they actually seemed human or some what human. A lot of books you get today make their characters perfect or angelic and thats just not how real people are.

Second Quote Response

“Good literature substitutes for experience which we have not ourselves lived through.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Alexander Solzhenitsyn means that when we read good literature we can know what its like to have an experience that we haven't actually had. There are many experiences that you can only have when you read books because it's impossible to have them in real life. You can imagine having the adventures and the experiences that happen in the book.

This quote relates to the book Wuthering Heights because I have never experienced anything like what happens in Wuthering Heights and I probably never will. I have never met anyone at all like Heathcliff but I can imagine what it is like to know someone like him through reading the book.