Moral Stories

Wuthering Heights _Chapters 4 to 17

The story begins thirty years before when the Earnshaw family lived at wuthering Heights consisting of as well as the mother, father, Hindley, a boy of fourteen and six year old Catherine, the same person that he had dreamt about and the mother of the present mistress . In that year , Mr. Earnshaw travels to Liverpool where he finds a homeless ,gypsy like boy of about seven whom he desides to adopt aa his son. He names him" Heathcliff" . Hindley, he finds himself excluded from his father's affections by this new comer , quickly learns to hate him but Catherine grows very attached to him. Soon Heathcliff and Catherine are like twins, spending hours on the moors together and hating every moment apart. Because of this discord , Hindley is eventually sent to college but he returns, three years later, when Mr. Earnshaw dies. With a new wife ,Frances he becomes master of wuthering Heights and forces Heathcliff to become a servant instead of a member of the family. Heathcliff and Catherine continue to run wild and in November, a few months after Hindley s return, they make their way to Thrushcross Grange to spy on the inhabitants. As they watch the childish behaviour of Edgar and Isabella Linton the children of the grange ,they are spotted and try to escape , Catherine having been caught by a dog, is brought inside and helped while Heathcliff is sent home.