All the people on the street, I HATE YOU ALL!

That title is for Jen. I know that she will appreciate it. And Maddie will hate it. I hate just about everyone in this book in varying degrees. I hate Heathcliff because he's all bitter because he didn't have a father and he was poor, and then the girl he loved didn't marry him. Tough luck. Get over it. I hate Cathy because she's spoiled and two faced and kind of stupid. I hate Edgar because he's a wimp. I hate Isabella because she's naive and spoiled and she's blind to how people really are. I hate the narrator because he's a meat-head. I hate Nelly a little but I don't know why. I hate Hindley because he married a girl named Frances. I hate Joesph and Hareton because they talk in weird dialect. So that's how I hate everyone in this book in order.

poems and WH

Darkling thrush- there seems to be a silver lining in each piece of literature. in the poem it starts out gloomy then there is hope. they are related in that both have some sort of silver lining.

Digging on my grave- it talks about how no one is remembered after death. that people just move on with their lives. they are not related because heathcliff doesn't gorget about catherine.

So, as Im reading Im learning that I really dont like Heathcliff. To me in theory hes seems like a chararcter that I would fall in love with, but in reality, I dont like him at all. He is so selfish, all he can focus on is his own desires.. and even though he is in love with cathrine, he still wants it his way.. I dont know.. he just bothers me.

Bad Me :/

So I took the weekend away from brit lit ... im sorry I just had to take a break. I know this was probably a horrible thing to do but it was soo nice, no joke. Saturday I got to watch a lil kids soccer game and fall in love with Adam & Matt's moms lil puppy dog, watch movies, make crafts, and write letters, attend a graduation party and it was all so nice and relaxing!! :) Today I just vegged watched my bros soccer game (there is a story there) *see bottom lol - see my grandma eat a nice dinner and cry my eyes out watching the Ultimate gift!! Soo nice but this all means Monday with no track I'm gonna tear up the homework like crazyy!! :) so watch out!!!

Funny SUFF
* so at my bros soccer game this Oakridge kid was shoving like none other and so of course all the parents are yelling shoving and things of that sort. Well this kid lost the ball and got all mad. He turned around to face the sideline and started yelling, cursing, and flailing his arms around defiantly (at the parrents) and told some parent "you just think your cool cause your picking on a kid" lol bad choice of words I'd say, and then he turns around with ohh wait for it, gives the parrents (dun dun dun *drums) THE FINGER !!! lol it was quite comical this little hissy fit!! haha well I thought I outta share my fun story with this wonderful brit lit class!! :)

Connections

So I have just remembered that I need to blog about the connections between Wuthering Heights and those to poems. I believe the connections is the gloom that seems to be like a heavy fog is surrounding the atmosphere in all three works. In Wuthering Heights its the torment of the two lovers who have fate against them, and the death that destroys Heathcliff's life. In the poem with the little bird it is the suppression of hope, that something good could happen. (i cant remember the third poem so i will look that up once i get to my room) In both these two works though hope does shine through in small increments in Wuthering Heights when Catherine and Heathcliff are together for brief periods and when Cathy grows into a woman, and in the poem the thrush singing his song through the gloom. So that was a pretty sad connection but ohh well its all i got at the moment!!!

Wuthering Heights ---> Poems

Darkling Thrush:
Well in Darkling Thrush it starts out super gloomy but then a little bird sings a song for no reason at all to show us that there is hope. We may not see it but it is there and it will show itself sooner or later. I think this is related to Wuthering Heights because there are soooooo many bad things that keep happening, and as you're reading it, all you can think is that something good will have to happen. I keep seeing this tiny little sliver of light at the end of a tunnel that I am hoping I am getting closer too as the end of the book nears.

Digging on My Grave (I don't know the full title)
This poem is basically talking about how after you die, no one is going to remember you. Maybe at first but as time goes on you will be forgotten and life will go on without you. I don't think this is related to Wuthering Heights very well because so many people die but everyone is still remembered. Like Heathcliff always goes on and on about Catherine. And the book still talks about Isabella. And Hindley.

Heathcliff

So you know how we were talking about how Heathcliff is actually somewhat good deep down inside based on his first instincts?
Like when we were talking about how he caught Hareton when Hindlel dropped him off the balcony?
Well I found another example.
It's when Hindley and Isabella decide to lock him out for a few minutes and then he gets in and he and Hindley duke it out.
Hindley gets knocked out or hurt or something and Heathcliff automatically starts tending to him but then he was like: wait I don't have to do this, let the servants do this.
So I was just thinkin about that and decided to share that with you.
I keep thinking about it when I read all the nasty things Heathcliff does and I keep telling myself that maybe he isn't so bad but I just can't make myself believe it.
Heathcliff is just too evil.

Project

So im super glad the projects optional now, cuz i havent even thought about it yet...haha, just worried i'm forgetting something tommorow

Wuthering heights project

Well i went into this weekend thinking the project was required and i was getting really stressed but now its optional so im all good, I dont know why everyone complains so much on this blog.. do you think people feel bad for you?? because i know i dont give a darn and i just laugh at all you guys who complain lol

Wuthering Heights

I had some time on my hands this weekend so I read a lot of Wuthering Heights and I actually really like the book but I don't like how abruptly Emily Bronte describes some things such as death. A person will be alive and happy one minute then the next they are dead. I guess it is just the way that she writes but it makes it hard to read some times because you feel like you missed something along the line somewhere.

End of the World

Well its really to bad that the world didn't end yesturday. Because now we're all going have to finish the research project and take the final exam. :( Now i guess we'll just have to wait for 2012, but by then were all going to be out of this class so it won't matter because we will probably all die from heart attacks which were caused by increased blood pressure which was caused by high stress levels which came from too much work...lol

Heres some pics :)

Time Well Spent?

So I decided to devote this weekend to homework....more specifically, Brit Lit homework.... more specifically Wuthering Heights reading and "optional" project. The question is, was that the right thing to work on? I mean, I guess I have all week to work on the research paper, but it sounds like everyone else did the opposite. I am 95% complete with my wuthering heights project, so I feel good about that though...

End of the Rope

I swore to myself I wouldn't write my next blog complaining but that may be a little difficult for me to do today. I feel the only thing I leave the classroom with is a stack of work to do. I can be engaged and optimistic when we're discussing things but once we're done I can't think about the reading anymore only the work. Today is especially bad. I have to rewrite my entire biography and have no clue where to start. The next section of my paper is going to suck too and I'll probably end up having to write it over like I did this one. On top of that I discovered we've been assigned absurd amounts of reading this week. Not even the thought of not having to do the Wuthering Heights project can lighten my mood.

Project

it has just come to my knowlege that the project is optional. i'm happy about it. i would love to say that i don't need the extra points... but i really do. i'll try to find something fun to do for this project. hopefully i'll get a good grade too.

Critical Essays?

Is anyone having any luck finding critical essays online? The only thing I can find are essays that I have to pay for? I really don't want to have to do this project AND spend money trying to complete it. I don't have an obscure author, Charlotte Bronte is fairly well known...Help Ms. Stariha!

Charlotte Bronte

So, Charlotte Bronte is Emily Bronte's sister. However, her book Jane Eyre, is a lot less morbid than Wuthering Heights. There's no abuse or evil gypsy men, only a mentally unstable, crazy lady hidden in the attic of Rochester's home! Jane Eyre is a lot more romantic, and quite interesting. The most interesting part of my research was once she published Jane Eyre. When Charlotte Bronte published her book it generated gossip because she published it anonymously. Some people speculated that it was written by a member of the Thackeray household. Charlotte Bronte didn't hear this gossip and dedicated the next edition to Thackeray himself. This caused scandal because Thackeray just happened to have a mentally unstable wife...which directly connected to the entire plot of Jane Eyre. Mr. Rochester's mentally unstable wife commits suicide and is most crazy.

However, this project is really killing me. I have procrastinated wayyy too much. Also, Ms. Stariha can you post your example? Please!!

The Darkling Thrush and Are you Digging on my Grave?

The Darkling Thrush:
The poet's world is filled with darkness and gloom until one, brave, little thrush flings his soul onto the world and fills it with hope. This is similar to the scene in Wuthering Heights when Catherine dies. Edgar's world is filled with sorrow as he watches Catherine suffer and fade away. Then, once Catherine is born and has grown into a child, she fills Edgar and Nelly's world with hope and life. Nelly exclaims, "The twelve years, following that dismal period were the happiest of my life" (185). Little Catherine's soul was flung in the world to replace the sorrowful gap left by Catherine's passing.

Are you Digging on my Grave?
This poem reflects that, while we may feel important and special while we live, we are nothing more than a grave and dust when we die. With the exception of Catherine, so far everyone who dies in Wuthering Heights has been promptly forgotten about. Usually, they get a sentence to say they passed, or were ill, and then bam! They're dead, never to be thought of again.