STORY#
1
Date of
reading : April 26 th, 2012
Type of
story : Abridged
Novel (260
pages)
Comments : Many people, generally those who have never read
the book, consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward, if intense, love
story — Romeo and Juliet. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of
revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious gypsy-like person,
from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. This is so interesting
novel, i think.
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Title
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Wuthering
Heights
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Author
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Emily Bronte
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Characters
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Heathcliff
Catherine
Earnshaw
Hindley
Earnshaw
Hareton
Earnshaw
Isabella
Linton
Linton
Heathcliff
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Conflict/
problem
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Heathcliff was a
waif taken in by Mr. Earnshaw and his household. He grows bitter as he grows older falling
in love with and losing Catherine. He
seeks to destroy Hindley and Edgar Linton blaming them for losing
Catherine. He believe that Hindley
caused his loss of Catherine by degrading him. Through her marriage to Edgar Linton,
Catherine becomes introduced to a world of materialism. She dies and her death fuels Heathcliff’s
rage against Hindley and Edgar.
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Solution/ending
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However, soon
after, Hindley also dies and the Earnshaw estate and Hareton fall into the
hands of Heathcliff. Later, Heathcliff
wins the custody of his son, Linton.
He forces Cathy to marry Linton and plans to steal the Grange from
Edgar through Linton. Both Linton and
Edgar dies and the Grange goes to Heathcliff who now owns both Wuthering
Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
Heathcliff marries Hareton to Cathy trying to make Hareton fit his
image. Cathy is loving to Hareton and
when Heathcliff dies, both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights go to
them.
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STORY#
2
Date of
reading : April 27th, 2012
Type of
story : Abridged
Novel (190 pages)
Useful vocabulary : witnesses, immobilized, carriage, overpower, downstream,
coxswain, nobility, abandon.
Comments : the novel tells of their journey as fugitives
across France while Hornblower torments himself with the knowledge that even
should they get back to England, he will still face a court martial because of
his surrender.
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Title
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Flying Colours
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Author
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C. S.
Forester
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Characters
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Richard
Barbara
Arthur
Wellesley
Hornblower
Marie
Brown
coxswain
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Conflict/
problem
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Hornblower is
told that he is to be sent to Paris to be tried as a pirate for his previous
actions, including the capture of a battery and some coastal vessels using a
ruse of war. Hornblower, his first lieutenant, Bush, who is still recovering
from the loss of a foot in the fighting, and his coxswain, Brown, are taken
away in a carriage by an Imperial aide-de-camp.
The carriage
becomes stuck in a snowstorm on a minor road close to the river Loire, and
part of the escort leaves to get help from Nevers, the next town. Hornblower
and Brown overpower the remaining guards and steal a small boat on the river
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Solution/ending
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Returning to Portsmouth,
Hornblower, in common with any other captain who has lost his ship, faces a
court martial for the loss of the Sutherland. However, he is 'most
honourably' acquitted by the court and finds himself a celebrity for his
exploits in the Mediterranean and his daring escape from France. He is
received by the Prince Regent (the later King George IV), who makes him a
knight of the Order of the Bath and a Colonel of Marines (a sinecure
providing worthy officers with extra income). Together with the money from
prizes taken while he was captain of the Sutherland and from his recapture of
the Witch of Endor, he is finally financially secure and free to court and
marry Lady Barbara..
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STORY#
3
Date of
reading : April 26th, 2012
Type of
story : Abridged
Novel (160
pages)
Useful vocabulary : Christmas, queezing, wrenching, grasping,
scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner, picking, Ghost, awakens, love , heart.
Comments : The story tells of sour and stingy Ebenezer
Scrooge's ideological, ethical, and emotional transformation after the
supernatural visits of Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present,
and Yet to Come. Do not be stingy, we cannot live witout others.
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