Wuthering Heights and Wishlist

Traveling to another place is always a fun adventure, with lots of new experiences and people. To visit another town, country, or even world a jet, car, even money is not necessary. All a person needs is a nice quiet spot and a book. Through reading anyone can go anywhere. Randall Jarrell understands this concept, “A first-rate work of literature makes the reader feel that he is not in a book but in a world, and a world that has in common with his own some of the things that are most important in both.” Clearly this quote is nothing but the absolute truth. Two pieces of literature that support the idea that reading is a form of travel are Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and “Wishlist,” by Eddie Vedder. These two very different works bring the reader to a whole new world through imagery, marvelous metaphors and other wonderful ways in their works.

Randall Jarrell’s quote can be best interpreted as a bold statement of truth. A first-rate work of literature turns words into feelings and characters into friends. These great works let the reader understand and relate to the characters. The more a writer describes the situation the more emotion the reader feels. Overkill of description, can be terrible though, if not used wisely. Once the reader relates to the characters, feels emotion, and feels like they know the place they visited a piece of literature turns into