-online shopping (i wish)
-Degrassi marathon(every night at 9(: !)
-bake brownies(new recipe. and extra chocolate chips= delish)
-get started on my summer assignment(oh yea !)
Ive decided to dig for my glasses and make good use of my free time. Aren't I a good little student XD. My first assignment was to read Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I know what your thinking, Frankenstein? Oh, garsh. Ive heard that story a million times and its always the same. Frankenstein is a monster who get's created by this mad scientist, and the monster gets loose and gets chased by a mob of angry townspeople. Frankenstein is ugly and scary, and no one likes him.! Was I right ? Admit it, you were totally thinking that. :P
Well, this novel was actually quite the contrary. And for me to actually like my summer assignments is very weird. I'm very picky with what i read, and this novel would probably have been the last thing on my mind.
In it, Frankenstein is actually the name is the scientist who created the monster. He was an intellectual who lived during the Enlightenment and who was amazed in all things scientific. The monster was nameless throughout the whole novel. He creates the monster out of selfishness, wanting to be the 1st person to create a living thing from nothing. He does so, and abandons the monster after being horrified at his ugliness. The monster is misunderstood, and just wanted to be loved, but the rejection from his creator and the people he runs into, turns him into a hateful, vengeful killer. He kills all the people his creator loves, including his best friend, little brother, and wife. Frankenstein finally decides to go after the monster and kill it himself, he has nothing else to live for, but the monster was super-humanly fast and strong so Frankenstein would never have been able to catch it. Along the journey the monster leads Frankenstein throughout Europe all the way up to the north pole. Up north is where Frankenstein gets saved by Robert Walton who is also trying to do something no one has ever done before, reach the north pole. When Frankenstein meets him, he was weak and dying. Walton nursed him, and Frankenstein then tells him about his life story, and the monster (who he never mentioned to anyone before). Walton writes down everything Frankenstein told him, and sends them in letters to his sister(which is how the story is basically composed). Right before dying Frankenstein told him,
"Learn from me, if not by my percepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge, and how much happier that man is who believes his native town, to be the world, the he who aspires to become greater than his nature will allow."
and "...Seek happiness in tranquility, and avoid ambition, even if it be only the apparent innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.."
He dies and Walton decides to turn his ship around and head home, as much has he wanted to reach the north pole, he didn't want any more of his crew to die, he had realized that he too was doing something out of selfishness...
Wow. that was a lot to write. But there's a basic overview of this excellent novel, that i totally recommend you read. :)