Heights 1

Passage:

"Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Helthcliff's dwelling.
'Wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the
atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather"

-I chose this passage because it introduces the most important aspect of the book- where it got its title. This sets up how the reader first views where the story is going to take place. It is signifcant to the book because the first idea created about the setting is how future events will be seen and interpreted.

-The passage foreshadows what might happen or become the central conflict within the book. The "atmospheric tumult" and "stormy weather" may represent issues that will come about between the main character and Mr. Heathcliff. Also, the diction and syntax of the first sentence make Wuthering Heights more a possesion of Mr. Heathliff, rather than a place where he lives. This creates an idea that there may be something that will come between this, or change this.