ENGLISH LITERATURE

MAESTRÍA EN LA ENSEÑANZA DEL INGLÉS

Alumno: Ricardo Torres Cárdenas

Docente: Emmanuel Israel Hinojosa
Activity 3: Frankenstein. Summary book and video link.
 Summary of the remain ten chapters.

Chapter 11. The monster begins to tell Victor how his senses were
developing since he woke up in the laboratory, and how he could not
differentiate between the five senses nor between light and dark when he
blinked. Once he managed to escape from the lab he was wandering around
the forest, eating fruits and nuts until one day he could discover the fire that
a person would have left, from that day he could see how useful it was to
have fire, and also discovered the dangers of it, he kept the flame lit to be
able to cook his nuts, when the food was finished he started again to walk
through the forest in search of more.
When winter came, the monster entered a hut, when he entered it the man
who lived in it ran away frightened by the appearance of the monster, he
liked the hut very much because it was the first shelter he had after the
winter, then he would walk to a village where he was greeted with sticks and
stones because of his appearance, He continued walking and found a hut
where to take refuge, but then he would take refuge in a barn, he was there
for a while and through a hole in the wall he could see that a family lived
there, but he did not want them to know that he was there, since they would
run him away.
Chapter 12. The monster continued to look down the hole at the Lacey
family, to which he could tell that they were feeling sad, he could deduce
that this was the result of being a poor family, and he could also tell that of
all of them, Felix was the saddest but without knowing exactly what the
reason was. The monster would start shoveling snow and also doing yard
work so that the family would have more time to work for their family.
Listening to them every day made the monster learn words like milk, cheese
and bread. He could tell that when Felix was reading aloud he was actually
looking at symbols that passed for words, the monster wanted to learn to
communicate so he could talk to the De Lacey's family so they would not
hate or reject him for being so ugly, as he could see the reflection of his face
in a river, he wanted to be friends with this family.
Chapter 13. Spring would come and the monster was not happy, neither was
the Lacey family, but suddenly a dark woman would arrive who did not speak
the same language as them, and who spoke French, Felix was madly in love
with her, and she also with him, then the family received her with open arms
and taught her to speak French, The monster was able to learn along with
her and began to understand their conversations and read some stories, but
in all those stories he never heard of someone like him, which made him very
curious, how he was created or where he came from, these questions
brought as a consequence that the monster felt even more distant from
society.
Chapter 14. With the ability to speak and read already developed, the
monster understood the history of the Lacey family and even showed letters
to Victor as proof, they were a wealthy Parisian family until one day Felix
heard about the unjust imprisonment of Muhammadan (father of Safie the
brown woman) Felix decided to free the condemned man because of his
religion and that is how he met and fell in love with Safie. Muhammadan
unsure of Felix's loyalty promised him his daughter's hand, however he
actually had other plans. When the French government discovered the De
Lacey connection, they were exiled to Germany, with this Muhammand told
Safie to forget about Felix and returned to Turkey, Safie instead of waiting in
Italy decided to travel to Germany with Felix instead of returning to Turkey.

Chapter 15. A short time after learning the story of the De Lacey family,
Frankenstein was able to find a diary belonging to Victor Frankenstein in a
pocket of one of the trench coats that had been stolen from the laboratory
once he escaped from there, reading it he was completely shocked to have
learned of his birth, so he began to feel even more alone.
From this moment on he felt determined to seek the company of the De
Lacey family, so he waited until the father who was blind was alone so he
could engage him in conversation. At first he showed kindness to the
monster, but he knew he had to wait for the rest of the family to arrive to try
to make friends with them, once this happened, Safie fainted and Felix had
chased him away from the house.
Chapter 16. Once this happens, the monster begins to walk through the
forest cursing and screaming in anger at the fact that his life was so
miserable, just on that occasion was when he decided to declare war on all
mankind and above all, to his creator Victor, for having made him so scary.
On that occasion he left for Geneva where he could admire the landscape for
a moment until he calmed down, until one day he tried to save a girl from a
river and was wounded by a gunshot because he considered it a threat. With
that wound he ended up realizing that humanity is garbage and he had to kill
them all.
Later when he was on his way to Geneva, he could find a little boy and
thought that this young boy was not mature enough to hate him, so he
decided to kidnap him to be his friend, but he would scream and oppose the
kidnapping, then his father would realize it, it was none other than Alphonse
Victor and he was going to make him pay for it, realizing that the boy had a
relationship with Victor, he murdered him and grabbed the necklace he
thought it looked very pretty and ran to a nearby barn where he found
Justine sleeping. It was at that moment that he put the necklace on Justine's
dress so that she would be blamed for the murder. Once he finishes telling
his story, the monster made his claim, stating that only someone as horrible
as him could love him, so he tells Victor that he had to create a being just like
him.
Chapter 17. After having said this, both began to debate about the possible
creation of a companion for the monster. Victor believed that if he created
this other being, the monster would have a partner to destroy the world, to
which the monster would promise him that if the creation of a partner would
end his rejections and lift his spirits, his motives to destroy humanity would
disappear. Once this is said, Victor agrees to create a woman for the monster
to which the monster would tell him that he would be watching him closely
to see if he is really advancing in his progress and that he would actually give
him his new partner.
Chapter 18. At first Victor could not even begin this work, as he found it
completely horrifying to create such a monster again, which made him sick
many times. His father Alphonse thought for a moment that this was a result
of Victor not wanting to marry Elizabeth, but he assured him that he loved
her and that he would only marry her, so Alphonse thought it more
convenient for them to get married at once. Frankenstein told him that
before they married he had to travel to England, since he had knowledge that
he had to finish a second monster, so he makes the trip to finish the monster
to return to his family and friends.
Chapter 19. In this chapter Victor would meet a childhood friend named
Henry, from there they go to Scotland where Victor still with some doubts
moves to the Orkney Islands to start building the other monster. Victor
would begin to develop his work and although he was melancholic for
creating the monster's companion, he was very afraid of not knowing where
the monster was and if he was creating harm to society, but he began to
think about his family and this was the reason that made him continue his
work.
Chapter 20. In this chapter we can see how Victor was about to finish the
monster's companion, but he was still very afraid, as he believed that the
monster he created could have the decision to be independent and therefore
would not want to be with the other or perhaps it could reproduce and
generate a race of monsters, there were many hypotheses that overwhelmed
Victor's mind, while the first monster looked out the window as Victor made
the decision not to finish the creature, tearing it to pieces. This made the
monster go to Victor's apartment but he did not change his mind, to which
the monster would tell him that he would take revenge on him and would
also be witnessing his wedding, leaving after having said this.

After all this, Victor received a letter from Henry telling him to come and see
him, as he had decided to move to India. Victor would then gather his things
and put them away to proceed to remove the remains of the monster he was
building, only to take a boat and go to where Henry was waiting for him, as
he was heading to the place, a terrible storm swept through the skies. Victor
for a moment thought he was going to die, until he caught sight of a small
port in the distance. At anchor he was greeted by a group of people who at
first glance looked Irish, they took him to the local courts, where he would
learn that he was accused of the murder of a man the night before.
Link to video: https://youtu.be/uyFnb6kIITw