January 30 Monthly Connection

Question number two of the "Wuthering Heights" Socratic seminar guide asks what the novel indicates about Heathcliff's origin and why is it important. The novel does not give any hint of Heathcliff's origin. This is very important to the novel because no definate explaination can be given involving his past for his actions. This raises an important question in itself: how much does the events of your past influence you decitions of your future?

You can clearly see the connections of past with future in celeberties. Some actors/ actresses/ singers who started out real young never had a chance to be a "real kid" and experience the things normal children experience, and therefore cannot function properly as an adult. Britney Spears is a prime example of this. She was thrust into the media's eye at such a young age that she later made some terrible choices. For example, the shaving of her head. Not normal.

I beleive the events of one's past are what make them who they are, and affects their future choices. With every experience someone has they learn from it either as a mistake or from a success. It's natural. It' what people do. You live and learn so to speak. If someone eats a raw egg and gets salmonila chances are they aren't going to eat a raw egg again because they lived the negative consequence of eating it, and have learned not to want to do it again.