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Thank you We sneak Weathering heights the frame narrative allah

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shmoop you have so many different elements in this book

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and its famous on so many levels over the brooding

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you know mean character the a dysfunctional relationship with the

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girl from gathering and all these other forces and just

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how cold and cruel the world was back then structured

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for us coming weather heights is not known for being

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settled by any means that's actually a lot of what

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was criticized about it is it's not something hits you

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over the head with everything that's doing heathcliff brooding so

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dark wood frame narrative is one of these ways that

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it's like very clear what's going on frame narratives were

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super popular back in the day and what a frame

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narrative is is when you're not just told the story

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but you're told the story through another story So in

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this case that story actually starts with lockwood coming to

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wondering heights it's toward the end of the temporal stories

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for the end of the chronology that this book starts

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lockwood is over here in the present and then the

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story jumps back into the past and then it kind

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of starts moving forward So we have lockwood coming and

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hearing the story of heathcliff and he's actually hearing the

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story through someone else nelly who was also kind of

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hearing the story through other people like nellie references letters

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she read and people in conversations she had So we

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have people telling nellie things nellie telling lockwood lockwood kind

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of telling us so there's a whole lot of like

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is this really real on dh that's Part of what

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we're supposed to say it's supposed to make us a

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little bit question what we're hearing especially because there's always

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going to be narrative bias So even if we were

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getting the story directly from lockwood who sought with his

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own two wise we hear lockwood say some things about

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heathcliff that like we know are not true He calls

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heathcliff a capital fellow and heathcliff is a lot of

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things but he's not a capital fellow so we're going

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to like alright we can't really trust lockwood and then

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nellie like loves reading fiction so we know she's obsessed

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with storytelling like how do we know that what she's

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saying is true The point is when you're hearing things

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it's basically game a telephone About the time it gets

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to you you know what's real what's not And it

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kind of adds to the spooky looking to hear a

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ghost story right You know you're kind of like just

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probably true but it's still super spooky and that's the

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effect that i haven't What is a frame narrative What

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is narrative bias How does using a frame narrative aid

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in storytelling Go on No Is there a bee frame 00:02:39.965 --> [endTime] narrative

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