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I am doing a book report on Emily and i dont really know any thing about her I have to have a thesis statement by monday and I dont know what to say, I do know that I have to tell how Emilies life affected her writing. So if any of you can help by refreshing me on her life or can help me with a thesis statement then that would be great :yawnb:
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Wouldn't reading the biography help?:
http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/
Maybe, her relationship with her family affected her writings...
There are alot of thesis statements you could compose out of reading her biography...
I read her biography but I kinda really didn't find anything that could start a thesis statement. There was one that I am thinking about here it is (Living a life with out a mother, and having many family issues, Emily Bronte truns to a pen and paper) how is that??? :(
For your thesis statement, do less generalizations. Like those "family issues": relate specific ones that affected her style of writing, so that your essay could become more focused.Quote:
Originally Posted by yellowbananas09
And the second part, "Emily Bronte turns to a pen and paper"--that doesn't indicate what facet of her writing was so unique solely to her family background... See her works-- like in Wuthering Heights; what sort of themes or charachters really reflect her family's situation. What induced her to write this way?
I hope this helps.
ok i will do that thank you, you are a big help so I will think of another one and see what you say about that one!!! your smart and helpful I am thankful for your help
Living a life without a mother and.... (thats as far as i got I dont know what to say like i have all these ideas but i cant put them togerther)
Don't worry, I bet you have alot of time to do it. And I didn't mean to say you're former thesis statement was wrong...It just needed it to be direct and focused..All it needs is a little touching up. And write all your ideas on paper, and after you're done with that, figure out what ideas would you like to incorporate in your essay. Then use these ideas to make a strong thesis. That's it! Good luck.
oh my soul you are awsome and so cool that some smart stuff well im gonna do that thanks
Here is the best help you are going to get! STOP LOOKING FOR HELP ON THE FORUM AND HURRY UP AND DO IT YOURSELF! You are running out of time...so many people think everyone here is going to just drop everything and do their homework for them.
I think it was awfully rude of your teacher to assign this homework at 4:30pm on a Sunday....what kind of teacher would do that? A mean mean mean one...thats for sure. Good Luck.
OK here is the poop on Em:
Her father (Patrick) was descended from irish peasantry who was given help by a friend to get a degree and became a parson. His surname was originally brunty but he changed it to bronte.
His first proposal of marriage was retracted and he met Mary, a friend of a friend; they fell in love it seems at first sight, and married. They moved into the parsonage at the end of the street in Haworth. On the other side of the house was the a graveyard and the moors. The sanitation in the village was very poor. The well the bronte's used was fed by water percolating through the graveyard.
The Brontes, with the exception of Branwell later on, never socialised with the townspeople. All the kids were shy.
Mary died, leaving the kids motherless. Older sisters Maria and Elizabeth looked after the kids. Aunt Branwell arrived to look after them but she stayed in her room a lot. Patrick I think loved them but didn't know what to do with them,
Consequently the kids were left to their own devices and read a lot of books, newspapers, periodicals etc.. They were politically aware at an early age and considering the circumstances were well, if not systematically educated.
Maria and Elizabeth died after a stretch at a cruel, typhus ridden school which was the model for the school in Jane Eyre.
So the kids were experienced with isolation and family death. It can't be overstated how isolated they were. They dealt with all this by becoming very close and making up sagas. Emily and younger sister Anne (wrote Agnes Grey) developed a fantasy world called Gondal; Charlotte and Branwell a place called Angria. These places had highly developed politics, societies, wars, diplomacies, you name it. Emily and Charlotte slept in the same bed together for years on end, and constantly spun out their fantasy worlds to one another as they were growing up. But Charlotte grew outward whereas Emily grew inward. Emily spent a lot of time on the moors behind the house; loved the place, the silence, the vastness, projected her experience of self onto it (read her poems). She went to the same school Charlotte attended (she was a student there when Charlotte was teaching) but she hated it and the people in it. She stopped eating (an anorexic?) and wasted away until Charlotte begged for a release for her, and they both went back to Haworth. Back at home, Emily rallied, and started doing all the cooking for the family. She spent a lot of time in the kitchen. She accrued alots of pets including a bull mastiff (Keeper), a hawk (Hero) she found injured on the moors, and others.
Now, the one job Emily had was about 10 mile from home, and the landscape was very similar to that around Haworth. She was there for a year and apparently it was a very difficult time for her. In a nutshell her idiosyncratic nature caused her and her employer some grief, she stopped eating again, and was released by her employer. The most interesting thing about the experience is how much inspiration for Wuthering Heights came from the place.
There was a local story about a poor lad called Jack Sharp, adopted by a well to do gent. Sharp managed to worm his way into the old man's affections and on his death Sharp assumed illegitimate control over the rather large lodgings, much to the angst of the old man's offspring. They managed to exict Sharp off the premises but before he left he had a job done on the place. For during all this he befriended the son (Sam Stead?) of a relatively wealthy fellow and turned him onto the grog etc, and managed to do a reverse Pygmalion, transforming the lad into a Hareton Earnshaw, and it was he who torched the joint on Jack's behalf. Sound familiar?
Read the poems as well. Good luck bananas.
Thanks and Emily my love I hope I have done OK.