Golan Heights

“What Being Tall Means to Me” In reflecting on what being tall means to me I have come to realize that being tall truly does touch almost every aspect of my life. From the clothes I wear to the activities I choose to pursue my height often plays a critical role I tend to overlook. Being tall whether I asked for it or not has played a key role in shaping me into who I am. There are many responsibilities that come with being tall. After all people do look up to you, so it is important that all…

Wuthering Heights: Revenge Takes All Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte was published in 1847 in an isolated village in Yorkshire. The novel is also set in England 1847 on two farms Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. The book possesses the same style as many other great novels such as “once concrete and yet general, local and yet universal” (Kettle 28). Bronte approaches her novels in a different way such as symbols and not in her ideas. Bronte does not color-code her words in this novel…

Being six feet tall has its perks, but it also comes with some stereotypes and assumptions that have followed me for my entire life. So to begin, I need to clarify what being tall does not mean to me. Height is not what defines me and the activities that I participate in. I am not a ballerina, basketball player, volleyball player, or model, all of which I have been presumed to be at some point in my life. The man in the grocery store who commented on my “long, dancer-like legs” does not know…

The love between Heathcliff and Catherine, the protagonist of “Wuthering Heights” a novel written by Emily Bronte, has grown to be complicated. This passage used from chapter seven, allows the reader to have a clear idea of how the relationship between this two has developed into a livid relationship. There are many devices in this passage that serve the reader understand the development of the relation. For example, the 1st person point of view used to clarify the argument, the strong diction…

In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff spends his days trying to achieve justice. He was mistreated by Hindley and Edgar for the majority of his life. Throughout his life at Thrushcross Grange, he thinks of ways to make sure that Hindley and Edgar get what is coming to them. When Heathcliff was brought by Mr. Earnshaw, it was apparent that Earnshaw preferred Heathcliff over his own son. Hindley realized that and began to feel hatred and jealousy towards Heathcliff. Hindley began to bully and even…

When Mr. Earnshaw is dying he becomes incredibly irritable, especially towards those who mistreat Heathcliff. He felt “painfully jealous lest a word should be spoken amiss to [Heathcliff]; seeming to have gotten into his head the notion that, because he liked Heathcliff, all hated, and longed to do him an ill-turn” (Brontë, 41). Mr. Earnshaw is very fond of Heathcliff, often spoiling him and treating him more like a son than he treated Hindley, his actual son. The fact that Mr. Earnshaw adores…

However, self-serving acts also provide many benefits that a selfless life could not supply. Many characters turn to reading in times where other pleasures are inaccessible. When Lockwood visits The Heights, he observes Catherine Linton “reading a book… seem[ing] absorbed in her occupation” (27; ch.3). At this moment, Catherine Linton leads a tragic life, held captive in the Heathcliff residence. Stuck in a situation without pleasant company, Catherine Linton relies in books as her only source…

Villainy in Wuthering Heights In Emily Bronte’s gothic romance Wuthering Heights, there is no true hero or villain as several if not all character’s display a duality in nature, having both heroic and villainous attributes. Nonetheless, villainy is a prevalent characteristic in Heathcliff, his villainous nature ultimately leading to his downfall. Bronte’s novel centers on the tempestuous characters of Catherine Earnshaw, a young headstrong girl in love with her childhood friend…

Will Gunderson was a good boy, as boys go. He grew up in the high plains of Colorado where cattle bellowed and grazed, and cowboys rode through his small town, donned with spurs, chaps, and big wide hats. He was full of dreams, fed by the white billowing clouds that danced in the bright blue sky above his house, and he spent his days riding his pony over the big meadows near the edge of town, and as he rode across the meadow, he was anywhere, but, home. William lived in a parsonage with…

In Wuthering Heights, growing up seems to be an issue. The characters in the book find it very hard to mature into independent people on their own. However, there is a difference between the first major generation and the second: the first’s childishness is negative and intrusive to their lives, to the point there it’s very damaging towards them as people and the way that they treat others. The second generation, however, is somehow able to channel that silliness into transforming them as people…