Oh my goodness gracious, is my final reaction to reading Frankenstein. Honestly, Mary Shelley has an awesome story line, but her use of syntax made it harder to unravel the scenes in the novel. The idea of having the story start and end with the captain's letters on his ship is an awesome idea. The first few chapters after that were really hard to get through. I felt like I was trying to walk through quicksand. It was very hard to grasp what was happening most of the time. I wanted more details and explanations for things as well as more descriptions. Why Frankenstein wanted to create the monster so badly, the chemical elements that helped create him, or the device that he used. It piqued my interest on how he was made. “It wad already one in the morning...and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.” (page 43) Really? I want more. How did the life spark into the monster? She does describe the settings and landscapes very well especially the country side in Geneva where Frankenstein grew up. I realize that before chapter ten everything was all about Frankenstein; how he grew up, went to college, experimented, created a monster, neglected the monster, and as he traveled back home his family and close friends start dying off, which was really sad. It was depressing to read and really weird that he was creeping through graveyards and stealing limbs. It also angered me that he just left the monster alone after he created him. What a chicken. At least finish what you started. I realize he was going through a lot of mental problems, wanted to experiment, and fulfill his dreams, but what Frankenstein did was worse than a mom having a baby then leaving it in the street for someone else to take care of. For all of the background research and journals scientists document he should have thought things through more. I really liked the chapters describing how the monster came about and how he learned human habits and speech through the cottagers as well as the cottagers backgrounds. When he visits the old man I found it to be my favorite part in the book, besides the whole being beaten and thrown out part. The people I talked to before reading the book most of their emotions sided with Frankenstein because he was so sad and the monster ended up killing everyone he knew, but I disagree. I had sympathy the monster because Frankenstein left him out in the dust after he was created. It was because of his neglect that the monster decided to take up his revenge against him and actually become a force of evil. I believe Frankenstein to be the villain here and the monster, who looks like a villain, only a victim in Frankenstein's life. I liked to idea of the monster convincing Frankenstein to make a female monster for him, but then he chickens out again. This guy needs to make up his mind. He brought this misery and despair upon himself. Again Frankenstein dug himself an even bigger hole with the monster after he decided not to create another like him and that's when the rest of his family and friends stared dying. I believe that Frankenstein did get what he deserved in the end. Overall I did like the book very much, but as I said before in the beginning it was difficult to get over those chapters and be inspired to read more.
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