Frankenstein

FRANKENSTEIN

This book speaks about the story of Frankenstein. He was a famous scientist and in an experiment he created a monster.

The story starts with a sailor, he saw an enormous man, that was driving a sledge. A day after the sailor saw an other man, but this was normal, he was the scientist Victor Frankenstein. Frankenstein was following someone who had escaped. So he begins to say to Captain Walton his story: Victor was born in Geneva, Switzerland. His father was a well-respected, important man. He was the eldest son. When he was four years old, his aunt died and her daughter, Elizabeth came to live with them. His mother planned for them to marry when they grew up. He had two brothers: Ernest and William. Then a young woman, Justine, came to live with them, to help his mother look after the boys. His family was very happy and he had a best friend too, his name was Henry Clerval.

A day, when he was fifteen years old, during a thunderstorm, a flash of lightning hit a tree and in a few seconds the tree was reduced to a hollow piece of black wood two meters high. From that he wanted to find out all he could about electricity and its incredible power.

When he was seventeen years old his mother died. After some time he left home to go to University. His obsession of the mystery life encouraged him to work hard, he was completely absorbed by his studies and for two years he never took a day off and wrote fewer and fewer letters to his family. One day he had found the secret of live; even more, he had found out how to generate life but he couldn't image at what it guided to.

He worked undisturbed in a laboratory for a year, at the end he had created a monster: its skin and its eyes were yellow, its long dark hair and its white teeth were almost beautiful but the rest of the face was very ugly. The arms and the legs were enormous and it was two and a half meters tall. Frankenstein wanted to destroy it  but he wanted to know if he was really capable of putting life into it. He joined the body to the wires from a machine, that could send the electricity by it. After two days of waiting there was a violent thunderstorm and with the first flash of lightning the creature began to move. It was even uglier and more horrible now it was alive. Victor ran out of the laboratory and locked the door. Then he went to turn around and at the railway station he met his friend Henry. They went to live together but Victor was ill for the monster. He staid two months in his bed then he decided to return home but his father before that he returned he sent him a letter where he wrote that his brother, William, was dead. He was murdered in the park near Geneva.

Frankenstein returned to home and he understood that the murderer of his brother was his monster. But the police thought that the murderer was Justine. So he decided to kill the monster.

One morning he met his monster and he wanted to kill him, but the monster asked him to listen his story. He said him that  he didn't want to kill his brother but Victor never loved him and he was very lonely. At the first time he began to turn around a village but when the people saw him they screamed and ran away. So a day decided to stay in an empty hut, that he founded, it was warm and dry so he decided to stay there. In the wall there was a hole and through it he could see a family: father and two children; they were happy and he wanted to go with there but he knew that they will chase him away. One day he saw his reflection in the water and he understood why the people escaped: his face was horrible. So he staid hidden. He began to know many things about the family and all the world and he taught himself to speak; then he decided to go to speak with the father because he was blind and he couldn't see his face but when arrived his sons he had to go away. So he went away, the only other person that he know was Frankenstein because he read his name on his bag and he decided to go find him. Along the way he saw a young girl follow into the river so he saved her but her father chase him away. When he was near Geneva he went to the park, here there was a little boy, the monster thought that he was too little to be afraid so he searched to speak with him. But the child was afraid and he said that he'll call his father, Mr. Frankenstein. The boy started screaming and he putted his around his neck to stop him but he died. The monster asked to Frankenstein to create a companion for him because he was alone, he promised that he will go and live far away where people no live and Frankenstein had to accept. Frankenstein and Henry went to England but of course he knew nothing of the work that Frankenstein had to do. They went together to Scotland for a walking holiday. After that Victor went to a Scottish Island and after two months the woman monster was ready to come alive but he thought that she didn't promise, at that moment he saw the monster at the window. Victor took a knife and began to destroy the creature. The monster was desperate and he said at Frankenstein that he'll destroy his hopes of happiness. The next morning he went away from the Island and he judge said him that his friend Henry had been strangled on the beach. Frankenstein returned at home and he married Elizabeth. At the end of the wedding they went at their hotel she went on before of him and when he arrived on she was died. The monster was the murderer of William, Henry and Elizabeth. Victor decided that he had to follow his monster and kill him.

And so he followed him across the world. He left his traces and messages and he is never far behind the monster. But Frankenstein was dying and he asked at Captan Walton to follow him and kill him.

Victor Frankenstein died soon after finishing his story. Later, the captain heard a voice coming from his cabin and new it was the monster. He heard that the monster wanted to die and when he opened the door he watched as the monster jumped out of the cabin window into a boat and he disappeared into the darkness.