Sixth Post

I have continues plugging along in my book this week. I can’t say that it was all that exciting but it really wasn’t. I would have to say that the dialogue is the best part of the book thus far. It is very different than regular dialogue in the sense that Emily Bronte, the author, doesn’t us quotation marks. I have thought long and hard about and I have come up with some possible reasons for this. The first being that maybe at the time that the book was written there were no such things as quotation marks or that maybe they were used for a different reason. However, I am not trying to bash this masterpiece I am simply discussing her style. I also had a bit of a change in heart about the current narrator of the story. Her name is Ellen or Nelly Dean. She is the lovable old maid that has the gift of gab. Until this week I had seen her as a fare woman but after she gave a very slanted talk about Cathy I began to have a bit of a distaste of her. She acted very childish when she recounted a tale of “putting” Cathy in her place. It really shocked me because she seemed to be such a level headed and fair woman. She especially seemed like she would be a grown woman and act as such. More importantly I found out in this section that Cathy decides to marry Edgar Linton, who is her cousin but she also confesses some sort of love, although I don’t think that it is completely romantic for Heathcliff while he is secretly within earshot! What a twist of events! I guess I will have to read on to find out more.

5th Post

The reading that I did this week was full of plot development. I have begun to realize that romance novels such as, Wuthering Heights, are characterized by their rich plots and vivid characters. As I said this book is full of vivid characters. The narrator for the last few chapters has been the old gossipy maid that used to serve the Earnshaw family on Wuthering Heights. She is full of life and cast quite the opposite image of the estates other servant, Joseph. Joseph is vivid in more than one way, he is a devout Christian who always tries to sermonize about thing but he also stands out with his thick accent. Personally I find it hard to comprehend because I don’t understand that kind of English country accent. I always read it as a southern accent. This book also has a vivid plot. This week Heathcliff and Cathy snuck off to see how some relatives live at the residence of Thrushcross Grange. While they are outside peeking into the windows of the house they see their relative screaming and crying. They find themselves no longer envying the Lintons (The family of Thrushcross Grange) for their freedom from their parents. But, they realize that after they are attacked by the Linton family dog. Cathy is taken in and Heathcliff is sent away for his dark skin. I found that interesting to find out about what he looked like. Cathy stays away for weeks while Heathcliff is constantly pursued by Hindely. This helps build pity for Heathcliff and you can see it form when Cathy returns home and the maid who is narrating takes kindly upon him. There is some trouble with Heathcliff after her arrival but then again there always is and that is where I left off and I actually am excited to read more for once!

Annotated Bibliography

Should the government bail out the big American companies?

Silke Carty, Sharon. "Automakers Ask for Billions in Loans, Credit." 7 Dec 2008 .

The author of this article used information from the big 3 American automakers’ filings to congress. The article gives a brief overview of the trouble the companies face and it explains what the companies are trying to from the government. The article focuses on much of what GM is doing to tighten its belt and what is asking for (up to $18 billion). This article is helpful to my research because it gives the plight of the big companies and what they want. It also gave a little background into the old actions of the companies.

Becker, Gary. "Bail Out the Big Three Auto Producers? Not a Good Idea." 16 11 2008 7 Dec 2008 .

This article was written by a very reputable economist who was a Nobel laureate, Gary Becker and is about the big 3 car companies of America. The article points to a union as one of the major weaknesses of the American companies. The automakers made many concessions to the United Auto Workers throughout the last 30 years. These concessions crippled the companies with large payments. The author believes that GM should not be given aid and that it should file bankruptcy but the others should not. This article is helpful because it gives reason to how the car makers got in the pickle thy are in now.

4th Post

This week I read about the death of old Earnshaw and the events that precipitated it. I was so surprised to find out that heathcliff became more hated because Hindley had been sent away to college so the house could be at rest. Unfortunately, Joseph, the blundering servant with the terrible accent I have read about before, spread his piety to old Earnshaw and this truly messed things up. His children no longer could have much fun under the devout rules of Joseph and they grew very rebellious to all this. Joseph even impressed upon the dying Mr. Earnshaw that his daughter was terrible and he partly believed it and began to denounce his daughter by saying things like, “I cannot love thee; thou art worst than thy brother…” (50). This shows what kind of pain Cathy went through and it would be very hard to hear this from her own father. Initially she was hurt by the declarations against her but soon she grew immune to them or so the book says. I think that when her father said those things she was till hurt each time but she just couldn’t let it show either to not let her senile father delight in her pain or to hide her pain from Joseph because he was the one inspiring the hatred in Mr. Earnshaw. Another interesting part about the section that I read was the change of narrators. I still don’t know whether or not it is permanent or not but it found it strange. The other strange part is that none of the narrators are part of the family.