Reading between the lines

Bianca A. Verma, a senior at Fayetteville-Manlius High School, has posted a short article on how Wuthering Heights paved the way to really reading books and not just the surface.

After I learned about Bronte's own life, "Wuthering Heights" took on multiple meanings. Suddenly Heathcliff's nephew, Hareton, stood for the passion of his crime, the hopelessness of his situation and many other underlying themes in the book.

Every character's name had a purpose. Every passage of long, seemingly rambling description had a direction and a goal.

A newfound ability to understand literature for more than just the surface plot has been a revelation that has slowly unfolded before me as I have made it through more than three years of high school. Nothing is arbitrary anymore, and individual words become strikingly important.

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