Northanger Abbey

This has been my favorite novel that we have read so far. I love Jane Austen's satire that she uses throughout the book. Catherine is a very relatable character, because, as Austen describes, she is not your typical heroine.

Austen's opening sentence to her novel reveals this truth: "No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her".

Instantly, the readers are able to relate to Catherine, because not many women live the life of a typical heroine and play the part of a damsel in distress in their day-to-day lives.

Even though, Catherine may not seem like a heroine, she very much is, especially because she leaves her home for the city of Bath to seek an adventure for her life.

 My favorite part of the novel that we have read so far is when Catherine is exploring all of the ins and outs of Northanger Abbey. She is trying to make her real life as adventurous as the heroine's lives are in the novels she reads. This may seem silly, but I know very well that this element of imagination happens in men and women of this day in age as well. The movies we watch give us a false hope that those adventures and those magical love stories will happen in our average everyday lives. So once in a while, our minds tend to seek them out, instead of living our own life as its own individual adventure, instead of the ones we see on tv, just like Miss Catherine Morland.