Wuthering Heights- Emily Bronte
1. Briefly summarize the plot of the novel you read.Wuthering Heights is a love story about a man and woman names Heathcliff and Catherine. This is another classic story about forbidden love. Heathcliff was a weathly man. He was adopted into the Earnshaw family. Catherine makes her relationship with Heathcliff extremely complicated when she became infatuated with Edgar. Catherine became engaged to Edgar (despite her burning love for Heathcliff) because Catherine wanted to climb the social status ladder. After Heathcliff ran away in anger; when he arrived back in Wuthering Heights, he came back for revenge on everyone who had done him wrong. Catherine ends up dying before Heathcliff ever had a chance to be with her. They are only reunited once he dies too.2. Succinctly describe the theme of the novel. Avoid cliches.The theme of Wuthering Heights is the power of an undying love. Love can make people do stupid and irrational things. Catherine and Heathcliff's love is the source of the major conflicts and contains the most emotion throughout the entire novel. It is unclear to me though, how Bronte wants the reader to view love. After reading this novel, my opinion of it could be swayed either a positive or negative way.3. Describe the author's tone. Include 3 excerpts that illustrate your point.The author's tone is basically passionate.
*"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire."
*That is not my Heathcliff. I shall love mine yet; and take him with me: he's in my soul."
*"Well, if I cannot keep Heathcliff for my friend--if Edgar will be mean and jealous, I'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own. That will be a prompt way of finishing all, when I am pushed to extremity!"4.Describe 5 literary techniques/elements you observed that strengthened your understanding of the theme and/or your sense of the tone. Include 3 excerpts that will help your reader understand each one.Diction, tone, symbolism, repitition, and imagery helped me understand the theme and tone. Imagery, diction and tone go hand in hand. Bronte's use of diction created the imagery. The way she used settings and descriptions made a clear visual of everything that was happening throughout the story. The constant emphasis on the settings throughout the story was symbolic. The scenery was always a gloomy kind of weather and just always related to the different moods given off. Repetition was a technique in this novel.Time ran in cycles and bad things from the past continued to repeat themselves in this story.
The Things They Carried
1. The story is a fictional story narrated by the author. There is no central plot because the story is written as a collection of multiple events that don't take place in chronological order. One chapter in particular, "Ambush", stood out the most, however. This chapter depicts a moment when Tim is walking down a dirt path during the middle of the night in Vietnam. As he's walking, his heart begins to pound faster and faster due to his situation circumstances. It develops a sense of suspense to the audience and you can imagine yourself in his shoes. When he hears something up ahead, Tim gets even more frightened. He readies a grenade, and is not hesitant to throw it if necessary. All of a sudden, he sees a silhouette in the night and releases the grenade. After a grueling few seconds, the grenade explodes and kills the man. From that day, he states, Tim was never able to look at the world in the same way - he had killed a man.
2. The theme of the specific chapter is that war changes people in ways that civilians will never understand. Unless you are personally faced in this position, as many soldiers are, you will fail to comprehend what happens to people when they return from the battlefield. Some might think they can relate in certain ways, but I believe that nothing compares to killing a man you know nothing about. It's a feeling a never want to experience in my life.
3. The tone of the story is fearful. Throughout the entire story, Tim is a coward, and he wants nothing to do with the military at all. He is scared every morning he wakes up and every night he painfully drifts into a sleep. The only thing that keeps him sane is his friends.
4. O'Brien's use of setting, syntax, and diction empowered the text to make it intense and seem lifelike.
2. The theme of the specific chapter is that war changes people in ways that civilians will never understand. Unless you are personally faced in this position, as many soldiers are, you will fail to comprehend what happens to people when they return from the battlefield. Some might think they can relate in certain ways, but I believe that nothing compares to killing a man you know nothing about. It's a feeling a never want to experience in my life.
3. The tone of the story is fearful. Throughout the entire story, Tim is a coward, and he wants nothing to do with the military at all. He is scared every morning he wakes up and every night he painfully drifts into a sleep. The only thing that keeps him sane is his friends.
4. O'Brien's use of setting, syntax, and diction empowered the text to make it intense and seem lifelike.
