Let me bring you some soup I tell him But he shakes his head You need to eat I urge You need your strength The man reaches up pulling me near There is no time he says I must find him For days now the man has rambled about finding someone I asked Who must you find Him he answers The one I created The monster Tell me I say Who are you How did you come to be here He takes a deep raspy breath His eyes are wild and restless I am the man who created a devil And I followed him here so I can destroy him Please tell me more I say And he does 8
chapter 2 Frankenstein’s Story My name is Victor Frankenstein I come from the city of Geneva My father was a well respected man there He had many friends But because he worked hard for many years he didn’t marry until he was much older He married the daughter of one of his dear friends Her name was Caroline It wasn’t long until I was born A few years later she gave birth to my brother Ernest My mother was a kind woman And because of her kindness she took in a young girl to live with us The girl was a peasant named Elizabeth My mother and father bought her nice clothes and gave her a lovely room to sleep in Soon she was like a daughter to them 9
Several years after that my brother William was born He was small sweet and wonderful We were a happy family I went to school and studied hard I loved learning especially math and science I spent more time with my book than with my friends Then I met Henry Clerval a boy much like me We enjoyed all the same things We loved to explore We loved nature and science Soon we became best friends I especially liked reading I spent many many hours reading to Elizabeth Even though we grew up in the same house I never looked at her as my sister I cared for her and she cared for me I always knew that when we grew up we would marry One night a sudden storm blew in The rain pounded the roof Thunder boomed like a cannon And lightning streaked across the sky like broken glass I found it utterly fascinating I decided then to devote myself to science and 10
the study of electricity Everything seemed perfect My happiness did not last long As I was about to leave for the university my mother died I stayed filled with sadness Her death made me think about life Why does someone have to die Could it be about nature and chemistry I could not grieve forever and knew I must go on I had to continue my education So I left my father Elizabeth Ernest William and Henry and journeyed on to the university I studied all of the time with little rest I especially loved chemistry I loved how everything we do and see and feel was a part of a chemical makeup It fascinated me So I continued to study and study and study and soon I formulated an idea I had no way of knowing that the idea would eventually destroy my life 11
