Frankenstein Case

Frankenstein

Jimmy Thai

English 51

Reading frankenstein I thought it was a different book to say the least. Theres not much suspense until later in the story and I found it kind of challenging to be interested because of how difficult it was to understand everything because of the way they spoke. I thought that theme was about how mankind is trying to adventure too much and how certain advancements in the world can be bad. Also some of the themes are science, compassion, forgiveness, guilt, and consequences. I think its different now because in todays society were trying to make advancements in medical fields to benefit the world and come up with cures to help people not to try and bring back the dead. The story starts off with 4 letters. The first letter was written on December 11,17- from Robert Walton to his sister Margaret. He tells her that he has arrived the day before and is safe and sound. He is on an expedition to the north pole to discover a “wondrous power”. He lets her know that the trip is very dangerous but he has faith. He tells her he hopes to see her soon but really doesn't know when that time will come. The next two letters aren't very important, they just say that he is lonely and feels like he's too smart to become friends with the people on board, seemingly making him seem like hes too good for the rest of the crew. The third letter states how he is well ahead of schedule and that he is very confident in making it, even stating that “success shall crown my endeavors”. The last letter is the one that seems to have the most meaning, saying how his ship had gotten stuck between thick pieces of ice and that there was very dense fog to the point that they had to stop and wait for it to die down. They found a man who was doing pretty bad almost near death, and took him aboard. From there it tells you that it'll be switching narrators and the real story begins. The first couple chapters are pretty boring, just explaining who the man was and his basic background. His name is Victor Frankenstein and he grew up to a well known father by the name of Alphonse. He married a women named Caroline and was