Outside Reading- Wuthering Heights

I am reading Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. To be honest, I really don't like this book all that much. I know people who have read it and say it's really good, but it must take awhile to be good if it is. Although, it is starting to pick up. At first, the book was very confusing and I had no idea what was going on; it was just one big blur of unknown characters and actions. I like the mystery to this book. For example, locked sleeping in the haunted room and hearing all these stories about Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Overall, it is hard to focus on reading this book and remembering to write annotations which definately slows me down.

There are many different characters so far. It is sometimes hard at first to decide whether the characters are actually there or just in a story being told or in a journal. For some reason, the book makes you very intrigued to learn about Heathcliff and Catherine. Arcording to the books present, Heathcliff isn't very nice and seems very troubled. Lockwood is told a story about him to try and find out why he is the way he is and makes him and everyone else the characters that they are.

Not too many things come to mind so far to relate to this book, but I can think of a few ways that Wuthering Heights relates to Beauty and the Beast. Once Catherine gets her foot bitten by a dog and stays with the Linton's, she comes back beautiful and with manners. Heathcliff is now like a beast because no one likes him, except Catherine, and no one believes he is worth anything. Even though the book hasn't actually said they were in love, I can tell that they are; just like Beauty and the Beast.

I don't know what all the criteria is for the creative project and am not sure of what I would like to do yet. I really like making posters and putting things together to look very organized, colorful, and creative. I think it would be fun to make some kind of art project to be put up on Mrs. Gilman's wall. I believe that as the story progresses I will get more ideas and actually start to see a full picture of what I want to accomplish.

I hope this book turns out to be as good as what everyone says it would be!