Listening Comprehension “In Search of the Bröntes”

1. Who is said to have influenced the sister’s lives and WHY? 
Their father Patrick, who shaped their minds and shared their triumphs
2. What tragedy struck the Brönte family?
They were doomed to die ill. (ill Fated)
3. What’s the Brönte father’s background?
He brought his family (his wife and 6 children) to Howarth on a cold February day in 1820. He was a brilliant son of a poor Irish Farmer. He won a scholarship to Cambridge.
4. How is it said that Emily Brönte coped with homesickness?
She pored her feelings into her poetry.
5. What is Haworth described like in the times the Bröntes lived there?
As a Romantic Village. When they arrived the main water supply for the town was so polluted that no one drink it. Almost half of the children died before getting to 6 years old because of the diseases, and the life expectancy was 25.
6. What is a recurrent theme in Charlotte’s writing (based on her experience as a child)?
The loss of their mother, she struggle to recall the image of a mother she had  known so briefly.
7. How did the Brönte father try to salvage the situation with his family after his wife’s death?
As he was with 6 motherless children, he proposed to 3 women, but they all refused him.