My name is ___________________. Do not take my reading guide or I will use your body parts on my next creation.
Letters 1-4
• Who is writing the letters?
• To whom is he writing? What is their relationship?
• Where is Robert Walton when he writes Letter 1?
• Where does Walton want to travel to and why?
• In letter 2, what does Walton reveal about himself?
• How much time has elapsed between Letter 3 and letter 4?
• Why does the man picked up by the ship say he is there? What shape is he in?
• What sort of person does he seem to be? How does Walton respond to this man?
• How much time has elapsed when Walton begins writing again?
• How does the man respond to Walton's project?
• How does the man respond to Walton's project?
• Why does the man agree to tell his story?
Chapter 1
• What is the man's background? (Do we know his name yet?) Where is he from?
• What is the story of the man's mother, Caroline Beaufort?
• How does the man feel toward his parents and what responsibilities does he feel they had toward him?
• Who is Elizabeth Lavenza and what is her story?
• What gift does the man's mother give him?
• Do we know the man's name yet? Do we know his family name?
Chapter 2
• Who is Henry Clerval and what is his relation to Victor?
• Who is Cornelius Agrippa and how does Victor find out about him?
• How does Victor's father respond, and how does Victor comment on that response?
• What sort of science ("Natural Philosophy") is Victor learning from Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus? How would a modern scientist respond to this sort of thinking?
• What happens when Victor sees an oak tree destroyed by lightning and hears an explanation? What does Victor then begin to study?
• Who or what does he credit for this change in direction ? Who or what does he blame for his "utter and terrible...
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