Thursday, January 22, 2015

The Bronte Sisters By: Catherine Reef Part 2

I finally finished The Bronte Sisters and honestly this book made me cry.  Since I have already written about the first part of the book, I'll just write a summary about the second part. So from where I left off things start changing for the three girls in a really good way. The girls, now women, write books and publish them with fake names. As you may know at the time women weren't allowed to do many things such as get jobs or write books, so they published the books as male siblings. At first they didn't really get much publicity or recognition but then newspapers started publishing their opinions. To most people the sibling's books were sad and inappropriate but then again their opinions started to change. Charlotte published her first book named Jane Eyre with the name of Currer Bell. Jane Eyre teaches people about the hidden darkness in the way that people hide the ugly things in their lives. Many people didn't know what to make out of a book that really told the truth. Emily Bronte, who published her first book called Wuthering Heights was even more criticized. Wuthering Heights told of a women who believed that earth was a glorious world and that she had no place in heaven. Again, in the 18th century people were very religious and discriminated anyone who didn't believe in their religion. Anne Bronte who published The Tenant of Wildfell Hall wrote about a women who went to live with her five year old son at Wildfell Hall. At the time it was rare for women with children to travel without their husbands, let alone live with out them. The truth was Helen Graham escaped from her husbands abuse and alcoholic abuse. This taught people that a women could be an individual and that sometimes diving into a marriage where you only cared about certain things could result in a terrible way.  Sadly the three sisters died one by one but the book as well as their stories went on.

The conflict in this book is person vs. self and person vs. society. The sisters all start dieing at a very early age (between 21 and 39). As said in the book "Critics and historians claim that if the three sisters would have lived on they could have been some of histories best writers." This shows that the girls had true talent but were never able to fully use it. None of the girls ever had children or were in a marriage longer than a year because of what happen to them. Its honestly a sad story but in a way the three sibling' lives went on, in their books and in the people who loved and remembered them. There is also the other conflict which is how people used to see women but the siblings not only proved people wrong but also got hundreds of people to change their minds and even started to name their children after characters in the sibling's books.

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