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Wuthering Heights book review
Anton Ioanidi
Wuthering Heights book review

I have read a book written by Emily Bronte a famous writer. The book is called
“Wuthering Heights” and this is actually the name of the house where most of the actions are happening. A young kid, whose name was Heathcliff, has been found on the streets of Liverpool and brought by Mr Earnshaw to the house. He was treated as a part of the family until Mr Earnshaw died; unluckily Heathcliff has had horrible relationship with Hindley who became the owner of Wuthering Heights and forced him to become a servant. Hindley who was the son of Mr Earnshaw has always treated Heathcliff miserably but Cathy was in love with him and they were always together. As Heatchliff wasn’t coming from a rich family Cathy couldn’t be his wife, and said that “It would disgrace her to marry him”. This made Heathcliff to run away, but few years later when he has come back, the revenge has been taken from every person that has made him suffer in childhood.
The book is meaningful and passes a great message, to a reader if he understands the purport of it. Heathcliff is a victim, who had been treated awful in childhood, and this hatred had brought disastrous consequences in future. He became devil, and had made everyone suffer, destroyed the lives of not only those people, but their children too. Summing all those points, you can conclude how childhood affects people’s future life. The way any kid is treated, will create his human concepts. This book has taught me a good lesson, as I get the reason to treat any kid nicely. Not many writers are able to show a life example like this, so I find Emily Bronte’s book a good composition, and I think the way the message of the book has been passed to the readers is the best positive aspect in it.
Depending on the writing style each author can make the book either hard to understand or easy to get. In this case I have had no problems understanding the book, but it was hard to follow it, because of

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