The End.

Well the ending of the book wasnt very surprising because we have all seen or heard what was going to happen from other movies and/or plays. But overll i really liked this book. It was very interresting and that is a great choice for me because books need to capture my attention on the first couple pages or I have a really really hard time reading them. Frankenstein kept the readers' minds wondering what was going to happen next throughout the whole entire novel. Although sometimes it was confusing to understand exactly what Mary Shelley meant, i still wanted to finish the book to see what would happen. My only question for the end is this....

Did you like this book and did it keep your attention? Or was this book boring and did you hate it?

BE COMPLETELY HONEST!!!!

Why Not?

Victor Frankenstein is an incredibly arrogant person I think. He likes to think about himself and how much trouble he would get in if he tried to tell everybody what really happened to all of those innocent people. Victor seriously could have fixed this problem before anything even started to happen. To begin with, he should never have tried to be God and give life to any creature of his own. He also should never have abanodoned his creation to live life without anybody to show him the proper way to do things. The monster wanted Victor to love him and if he could have at least shown the slightest bit of affection, maybe the whole novel would have been a happier ending instead of the dark dreary one that happens. Victor also doesnt even think about how much pain and suffering he caused the monster and even his family to feel. Victor still did not realize how much danger he put his loved one in until one by one, they slipped away forever from him. I wish that Victor would have realized how much good he could have shown the monster and that maybe he couldve helped create a stronger race of humans... The monster had incredible abilities. He was shot and lived. He showed an incredible amount of strength to be able to continue on for months and months leading Victor to the north. I just wonde what good could have become of this monster if only Victor had helped him in the beginning.

What do you think: Would the story be completely different if Victor would have loved his creation from the beginning? Or do you think the monster still would have learned the evils of the world and killed a bunch of innocent people?

More Tears?

When the monster killed William, Victor knows something of what could happen next. It foreshadows more killings in the novel because he states that there will be more tears and also that there will be other funerals too. This, he should really warn his family and friends about because he could save them and i don't know that he really gives the effort to try. Victor is pretty selfish in my eyes in the novel because he created this thing that doesn't fit in anywhere and it seems like he doesn't even care about it. I hope that he will realize that something needs to be done before it's too late. And i still wonder how he seems to know that some more unfortunate deaths are going to happen.

How do you think Victor sort of knows that more deaths will soon happen?

Condemmed to Death?

When the monster killed poor William i was sort of surprised because you wouldn't expect him to even know where he lived for one and two how would he know to find him with just Justine alone there with him? And the monster has obviously learned many things just like a new born baby would learn. He knows the ways of man now and he was intelligent to know how to make the murder look like somebody else's fault entirely. He put the necklace in Justine pocket. It saddens me to know that people do such evil harsh things and still manage to get away with it. Justine was completely innocent and only two people really believed her. Victor believes her because he knows it was his creation that committed the crime. And Elizabeth believes her because of the previous relationship with her that she was an extremely kind person who would never harm anybody. Even the evidence presented i still would've thought they might have found another way to tell if she had really murdered the boy. When she had confessed her crime it made it almost impossible for any witnesses to prove or try to help her with her innocence. This confession suprised me because i know myself that i would never confess to something i didnt do no matter how much trouble it is. But one thing that did surprise me was the fact that Victor could have saved Justine's life with just telling the people about his creation. They may not have believed him but i still think it could have preserved her life a little longer so that they could have real evidence of the monster...

Do you agree on the fact that Victor should have at least tried to save her with his actual truth or do u believe he did the right thing by keeping his mouth shut?

Nursing Back to Health

When Victor Frankenstein was done with the creations of his monster and he was out of his apartment because he was so scared, he was then found by his old friend Henry. He was extremely lucky to run into him because Victor was very ill and he needed somebody to bring him to his senses because he would become deathly ill if he didn't get some attention. Later when Victor had his fit and was then out for a while Henry nursed him through the night and then stayed with him to get him back to his full health. Henry is a great friend for doing this because instead of coming to fulfill his studies and just ignore the illness of his friend, he put off all of those school duties to help his friend become well again. In the end of Victor's illness he was still haunted by seeing the monster in his mind. Henry wasnt concerned with that monster,and instead helped Victor reach his family and become closer to them again. Victor is very lucky to have a friend like Henry and to have become well enough to realize that he was putting his family off.

Do you think Henry will stay with Victor and study and help him find the monster? Or do you think he will be scared like Victor was and leave his friend with his own problem now that his health is better?

Creation of the Monster

When Victor finally decided that he was going to create the monster he spent many many sleepless nights working. The longest i have ever spent without sleep is 48 hours so it is hard for me to imagine the weekness of fatigue he went through and the fevers he attained from lack of sleep. He never gave up on this project and he ended up bringing it to life... His work and efforts did not exactly turn out the way he planned because he was so terrified of his own creations that he just ran away from it...

Do you think Victor will ever find the monster and actually see what it is like and try to really see if he actually did try to talk to him?

Forgotten Question From First Blog

What about the relationship between victor and his adopted sister do you like the most?
Do you think that even as Victor and Elizabeth became older that he will still show the same love and protective manner as he did when they were children, or do you think they will drift apart?

Chapter 1 Overview of Victor and Elizabeth's Relationship

The first few chapters of Frankenstein were surprisingly interesting. Usually i hate reading old books i cant understand but this book is really good.

One part of these chapters really stood out because i can relate to how young victor was as a child. He was an only child and was cherished by his parents but his mother still longed for a daughter. This is how i was when i was younger....I had two brothers along with me and i knew my parents wanted another child. I hoped and wished for a baby sister and when my parents brought her home i had always claimed her as mine just as victor did with Elizabeth. I like this part a lot because the connection between the two children was very special and victor liked to claim that Elizabeth was his and that he felt very protective of her and never wanted her out of his sight. I felt the same way over my little sister Eden. I always wanted somebody to play with and to have as a companion so when i finally got her i always protected her and never let her out of my sight. Victor says that there was a very strong loving relationship between Elizabeth and himself; he felt that when she did something good and recieved something for it that the prize also belonged to him because she was truely his. I also have felt this way about Eden because i help her with something and look out for her so when she does something right and its good i feel responsible and happy, because i too feel like i have accomplished what she had done.
I still feel this way about my little baby sister. I hope to learn more about Victor and Elizabeth later on in the book because it reminds me so much of myself.