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Ok, so I have two connections. They’re basically both about Catherine’s death, but in different ways.

The first is when she dies during childbirth. I connected it to the special on Discovery Health Channel called Birth Day. Even though I’ve never seen an episode where the mother dies, most of the births are high-risk and extremely dangerous, both for the mom and the baby.

The second is about the movie Jack Frost. When Heathcliff cursed Catherine for leaving him, he also told her to come back, even if it means putting himself in total agony, just to be with him. In the movie, Jack comes back to have a second chance. The thing that really doesn’t fit is the fact that he’s a snowman. But oh well.

There you go! Any opinions?

While reading the book, there are many connections I have been able to make with the text and with real life situations and characters. One connection I am able to make is to with a painting by the artist Seth Skim. He drew a picture of a chipped vase, with a person in the background looking very forlorn and like he has made the wrong decision. This can be compared with Catherine in the scenes after Heathcliff leaves the first and second time. The colors included in this painting are a collection of different blues, greens, browns, and whites. Each color represents a different feeling. The blue could represent Catherine’s sadness and coldness throughout her life so far. The green could represent the good life she is trying to live without much success, for there is a limited amount of green in the painting. The brown is only present in the hair of the man in the painting. This could also represent the only color Catherine valued was her beauty, her hair could be an example of this. The white could represent the emptiness of Catherine’s life, for she is very lonely and unloved by many and white is a color that has no visible color within (if that makes sense)!In Catherine’s life, there is much color, but because she is living life so fast and not stopping to think of the effects of the decisions she makes, there seems to be an absence of color. The broken vase represents her broken life and the negative outcome of her decisions! Any other thoughts about the painting? To view it, do a Google image search for “broken vessel”. It should be one of the first images to come up. Any other connections that you guys see to this painting?

This may seem corny but the connection I made was in the movie cinderella.  Catherine reminds me of Cinderella who was once dirty and did all the chores. Blue collar almost. Mr. Linton would be the fairygod mother who changes Cinderella into a “princess” just like he changed Catherine into more of a lady. And Mr. Heathcliff would be the step-sisters becuase the step-sisters are jealous of how Cinderlla got more attention. I think this connects with Mr. Heathcliff becuase when he finnally meets her once agian she treats him lower and he is jealous of this. Do you guys agree with me?? Can you find any other connections in Cinderella to Wuthering Heights???