The book I chose to read is called Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley. The opening chapters in the book are a first volume, and the whole volume of letters is written by Robert Walton to his sister Mrs. Saville. Robert is a sailor, and he his writing accounts of his voyage to his sister. The reader finds out about the beginning of his travel until the end. This first volume of the book does not have anything to do with the first three or four chapters of the book, so it must be a citation about characters later in the story. Chapter one is narrated by a character named Victor. Victor is talking about his life and childhood. He talks about how a girl named Elizabeth came to live with him and his family.
It could be assumed that somehow Robert Walton and the narrator of chapter one, Victor, are connected sometime later in the book. Elizabeth was an orphan girl that Victor’s parents adopted while Victor was young. It is clear that Victor view’s Elizabeth very highly, and he calls her beautiful and names that appraise her during the first few chapters. Frankenstein is a story about a monster, and the reader knows this before opening the book. Most readers would realize as to who might be the monster within the first characters introduced into the story. Because it is a monster story, there has to be an individual or creature that has become or is shown to become corrupt in some way or form. If not the actual monster, then a character surrounding must have a moral or spiritual dilemma. The common reader, including myself, stereotypes Frankenstein to be about a large green monster with screws projecting from its neck. After reading the first several chapters, however, the reader can tell that it is much more than just that.
