What’s the need?

 I’m going to start this blog by admitting that I’m behind on the reading I know today is the second and we’re supposed to be through chapter 32 tonight I’m on chapter 27. Anyway I find myself getting annoyed with the reading. I don’t understand why violence is everybody’s  go to response for every little thing. As a reader it’s getting old, like there are lots of other ways to sort out your differences rather than just flying off the handle hitting or hurting someone in some way whether it be emotional or physical. 

Chapter 24 for example is filled with emotional and physical hurt. I read this chapter late one night after work and I thought I was having a fever dream. But the first thing that really annoyed me was Hareton trying to impress Catherine with his ability to read his own name, but in turn she laughs at him because he can’t read numbers. In all honesty I don’t understand why he would try to impress her because she’s a bitch to everyone. Why couldn’t she have just been a civil human being and compliment his reading ability?

But then the story escalates  when hurt Hareton decides to shove Linton and Catherine onto the kitchen floor which leads Linton to claim “I’ll kill you for this”. And then proceeds to violently choke on blood. Even after the disturbing scene Hareton follows her into the moors and tries to apologize for what happened, and like one does Catherine whips him out of rage. 

In all honesty I just don’t see the need for the amount of violence in the novel, but that just could be me.