What does the title Wuthering Heights symbolize?

The title Wuthering Heights is symbolic of the characters and relationships in the novel.  

First of all, the title of the novel symbolizes the setting in which the house of the same name is situated. Wuthering Heights is set in the northern English moors, a rough, inhospitable climate prone to the harshest of winters. The house by the same name sits high on a hill near some rocky crags. The word "wuthering" means, as Lockwood tells us, being prone to "...atmospheric tumult...in stormy weather." The area is pummeled by high winds throughout most of the year.

As a result, the house looks and feels harsh, cold and stormy. The architecture used to deflect the wind's damage symbolizes this depressing mood. Deeply inset windows and jutted corners are two examples; this particular architecture can make the house appear dark and cold, both outside and inside.

The windy, stormy weather suggested by the word "wuthering" also symbolizes the lives of the family who live inside. Their relationships and situations are stormy and dark, just as their home and setting are stormy and dark, as contrasted with neighboring Thrushcross Grange, situated in a grassy, lower-lying area with happier residents.

What do Scrooge's repeated questions achieve?

The beginning of the story shows Scrooge very much in control of his life and even of those around him. He uses his money to control others, and when the spirits arrive, for the first time we see him out of control. Him asking questions helps the reader to see just how out of control he is, as well as how vulnerable he feels when he is out of control.

Although he asks questions of all of the spirits, we see him the most vulnerable with the Ghost of Christmas Future, who refuses to speak and answer his questions. This is disconcerting for Scrooge, and the more he asks and does not receive an answer, the more agitated and anxious he gets.

"'Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point,' said Scrooge, 'answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that Will be, or are they shadows of things that May be, only?'

Still the Ghost pointed downward to the grave by which it stood. 'Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead,”'said Scrooge. 'But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change. Say it is thus with what you show me!'

The Spirit was immovable as ever."

Dickens' use of questions makes the most sense because Scrooge is in an unfamiliar situation throughout the night with all of the ghosts, and with the final ghost, he is the most scared. His natural reaction is to ask questions, and this helps the reader to better understand him.

Why does Maxwell love his grandparents?

Maxwell loves his grandparents because they are loving and supportive. There's no language to suggest that he hates his grandparents in the story. In fact, on the very first page Max says, "bless their pointed little heads." He's very happy that they gave him his own space down in the basement, too. When Killer Kane comes to kidnap Max on Christmas Eve, he makes a fuss that the old geezers put his son in a basement like a second-class citizen; but Max likes it.

"I'm still living in the basement, my own private down under, in the little room Grim built for me there. Glued up this cheap paneling, right? It sort of buckles away from the concrete cellar walls. . . but do I complain about the crummy paneling, or the rug that smells like low tide? I do not. Because I like it in the down under, got the place all to myself and no fear of Gram sticking her head in the door. . ." (5).

Even though his killer father doesn't like his room when he sees it, Max loves it! He has a room to call his own and his privacy is respected. This shows that Max isn't greedy or high-maintenance--he's a good kid who appreciates what he has.

Another reason Max loves his grandparents is because they support and believe in him. When he and Freak get caught in mud during the Fourth of July festivities, the police paint him to be a real hero and his grandparents don't mock or doubt him for it. Instead, they give him ice-cream and real coffee. They do their best to treat him like a hero which can do wonders for a teenage boy's ego. His grandmother also treats him like a mother by toweling him off and making a fuss over his well-being. Some guardians ignore or downplay what children do--they could have been angry at him, too, like some other adults might have been-- but they treat him with love and respect all of the time. This makes it a lot easier for Max to love his grandparents.

Finally, Grim and Gram do everything they can to protect Max from his father, Killer Kane. When they hear that Kane is to be released from prison, they slap a restraining order on him so he can't come to the house without legal consequences. Grim even considers getting a gun to defend Gram and Max from Kane breaking into the house. There's nothing Max's grandparents wouldn't do for him, so there's no reason for him not to love them.  

How do you start a summary?

A good summary should serve two purposes: recount the major points or events of a text and use these to support the thesis, or "big idea," of the text. I recommend doing some pre-writing to try and answer the following questions. Hopefully, by answering these questions, you will have written enough content to put together a draft of a summary.

What is the thesis, or "big idea?" What do you think the author's purpose was in writing this text? Is there a particular message or lesson the author wanted to convey?

What happened? Do the events or major points of the text support the thesis? If so, how? You may like to organize this by what happened first, next, then, and finally. You don't have to include a lot of detail here, just the most important information.

What's the background? Is the author writing about a subject from which he or she is totally removed? If so, why do you think the author wrote this text? If the text is something like a memoir, how does the author's experience relate to the greater situation? Why is this situation, time, place, or idea important?

When writing a summary, I sometimes like to imagine I am speaking with someone who is entirely unfamiliar with the text. This way, I focus on only the main idea and the most important events or evidence related to the thesis. 

What is meant by the phrase "remitted her taxes into perpetuity"?

If you are referring to the phrase from A Rose for Emily, it just means that Emily was sparred any obligation to pay her property taxes from the date of her father's death until eternity.

The word 'remitted' means cancelled, and the word 'perpetuity' refers to a lasting or eternal state. In the story, the author states that Emily was a 'tradition, a duty, and a care; a sort of hereditary obligation upon the town,...' when she was alive. Accordingly, in 1894, Colonel Sartoris, then the mayor of the town, coined a story about the largesse of Emily's father in order to spare Emily a financial burden.

Supposedly Emily's father had loaned some money to the town, and Emily's tax remittance was a way of paying her family back for their generosity. However, this was a fabricated story, concocted for the sole purpose of financially aiding Emily, a woman who was too proud to accept charity.

What makes Americans invincible, according to Henry in "Speech to the Virginia Convention"?

According to Patrick Henry, the colonists cannot lose because they are "armed in the holy cause of liberty" and the just God will preside over their destiny.

Henry tells the convention that if three million people are fighting for liberty, which is a holy cause, and in a country such as theirs, they will be invincible against any army that the British can send against them. For, there is "a just God who presides over the destinies of nations," and, Henry adds, God will raise up allies for them. 

In addition to these reasons, Henry says that the colonies really have no choice because unless they go to war against Britain, they must live in submission and slavery: "Our chains are forged!" But, he adds, the colonies are strong and if they make use of the means which God has placed in their power, they can prevail against Britain.

How do you communicate without speaking??

"Speaking" commonly means voice utterances, but in a larger sense all communication from sender to receiver can be seen as "speaking."  Such informal and less codified communication as "body language," "facial expressions" and the like are not exactly "systems, because not shared by a large community.  But Morse Code, Braille, Sign Language, and the like are indeed communication systems, all of which provide "communication" without speaking.  The scholarly approach to these disciplines deals with "signifier" and "signified,"  the object, idea, concept referred to and the "signifier" that works as a mutual code element to give the same image or thought to both the sender and the receiver.  Of course, many "spoken" signifiers are imperfect -- pot? Is the signified a metal cooking vessel? Or is it a mood-changing substance? (Refer to the standard equation for the elements of communication -- sender, receiver, code, medium, static, etc.)