J.R. McGinnity's Official Site
Epic Fantasy. Secret Missions. High Stakes.
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Writing Blog
  • Book List
    • The Talented
    • The Kingdom of the Light
    • The Bodyguard >
      • The Bodyguard: Part One
      • The Bodyguard: Part Seventeen
      • The Bodyguard Comment Section
  • VLOG
  • Services
    • Beta Reading
    • Content Editing
    • Copy Editing

Welcome to my blog

As a writer, my first area of interest is obviously my books, but for my blog I will try to address different writing issues or provide my own tips when it comes to writing or self-publishing.

My blog also includes shout-outs to and recommendations for other blogs or websites, book reviews or recommendation, and a few posts sparked by nothing but an area of interest at the moment or occasionally a complaint or five. 

-J.R. McGinnity
P.s. This blog contains affiliate links, usually to Amazon.

Home

Emotion in books

3/13/2014

0 Comments

 
I could attempt to write a post about emotion in books. I could try to come up with words to express how to do that, and maybe an example of my own.


And it would, undoubtedly, somewhere in that post, say something along the lines of "show, don't tell" because isn't that what is always said these days?


Not that I don't agree, but...


In lieu of trying to write a "real" post, I am going to share what I think is one of the most emotional passages in any book, and it is all telling (literally, someone is saying it).


“I wish you had sincerity enough to tell me whether Catherine would suffer greatly from his loss: the fear that she would restrains me. And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I could have torn his heart out, and drunk his blood! But, till then - if you don't believe me, you don't know me - till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!” 
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights




Can any passage better describe Heathcliff's love for Catherine? The love and the violence paired here is beautiful. Word choice is amazing, and then I could go on a rant about the character foil present, but...


Basically, I just wanted to share this magnificent, emotion-packed passage from Wuthering Heights. All that we need to know about Heathcliff's love for Catherine is in this passage--if we read nothing else about him, knew nothing more of the plot, we would know that he loves her to the point of dying rather than hurting her.


In my opinion, this is the epitome of emotion in a book.
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    RSS Feed

    Author

    My name is J.R. McGinnity, I am a former English teacher with a passion for writing fantasy novels with strong female leads.

    My time is spent immersed in books (reading or writing), hiking when the Midwest weather allows, and watching seasons of old TV shows.

    Follow her on Twitter @JRMcGinnity

    Archives

    December 2017
    November 2017
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013

    Categories

    All
    Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
    Blogs On Writing
    Book Recommendations
    Characters
    Editing
    Genre
    Kickstarter
    Miscellaneous
    NaNoWriMo
    Self Publishing
    Sensory Saturdays
    Services
    The Talented
    Top Ten Tuesday

    RSS Feed

Powered by
✕