Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Up to chapter 20

As I have said before in all post’s, a lot of events happen in a couple of chapters and these chapters certainly were not different. Well after Catherine has died and left a daughter behind, Isabella appears at Thrushcross Grange in a carriage to run away to London. She then tells Nelly about the chaos that has been occurring back at Wuthering Heights. The fact that Hindley has turned into a alcoholic and cannot even stop drinking for one day, shows how things in Wuthering Heights have grown out of control. There seems to be a heavy cloud of bad happenings over Wuthering Heights, because the situation there is terrible. From what Isabella tells Nelly, it seems that Hindley has tried to kill Heathcliff but since Heathcliff was warned of such he protected himself and I believe it was with a latter or something like that that he used to cover him self and I really did not understand how but Hindley wounded himself on the wrist. Then Heathcliff ran after him and beated him up. However something interesting happens for Isabella instead of staying on her husband’s side (although this would also not be as convenient for he was not faithful to her), she tells Hindley what happened and makes him want a revenge. It is then that she runs away.
So then Isabella finally runs away and in London she gives birth to a baby boy name Linton.
One thing I find really interesting about this book is that various characters have the same name which make me very confused. For example now that there is this Linton son o Isabella and Heathcliff I get confused when I try to talk about Edgar for I used to call him Linton. Also with the Catherine’s; although the big Catherine, who was in love with Heathcliff died, there is her daughter also called Catherine which confuses my life when I try to explain a past event. Did someone get my point???? I know it is very confusing do understand but also to explain.
Then another big event happens for Hindley dies. It is here in this chapter that my first question is answered and I believe Rafael and Rodrigo also had this question, of why is Heathcliff the owner of Wuthering Heights if Hareton is still alive and Heathcliff is not even a legitimate son of the Earnshaw’s. Well apparently Hindley had a great problem with gambling and he was very addicted to it, so Heathcliff would lend him money to pay his debts. However when he died he had not paid every loan Heathcliff made to him and so the ownership of Wuthering Heights was designated to him as a form of covering the debt. The interesting part is that Hareton ends up becoming a slave to Heathcliff and even Nelly can’t take him out of there.
Now this was all in chapter 17…..I think too many events happened in one chapter, just like the ending of brazilian novelas, it seems like the author has too much information still to reveal so he just throws it all out to the viewer or in this case the reader. And in the case of the novelas the last day is usually two hours long or else they can’t end it hehehehe!!!!!
Well I guess I better leave to explain the next chapters next time or else the post will be too long and you guys will be discovering too much information about your future readings. So in this case this post is for last week and I will post another one for this week!!!!! Bye everyone!!!!

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