12th Grade
Metaphor & Memories
Senior year is consisting of spending money, I have never felt so broke. I work this whole year. Making money was pretty much important, and I am happier because it’s my last year in high school. I love Ocean Lakes, but getting accepted into ODU has me glowing. Getting accepted to college is a good feeling, sharing my accomplishment with all my close friends and family is what I am doing to do. Turning 18 have been the best thing that has happen to me because I’m an adult now even though my Mom and Dad still takes care of me. One memory I can’t forget is me cutting my hair, I never cut my hair before so me doing that was a drastic change. It was my coming of age. Senioritis affected me a lot this year, I didn’t want to do anything. This year I am excited to graduate, and attend prom because I am going to get dressed up and look pretty. The countdown to graduation has began and I’m really looking forward to the end of the school year.
The stories we had to read senior year were different. To me it felt like we were just reading random novels. My favorite was Pride and Prejudice because it showed me girls really haven’t changed in the 21st century. Frankenstein creep me out just a little. It was an interesting story but the fact he brought the dead brought to life was weird too.
Holding up all my essays I wrote this year was nice. Most of the essays I wrote this year were going to be added to my senior portfolio. Writing the metaphor poem was challenging for me but in the end I managed to accomplish it. Ms. Bayer helped me a lot when it came to writing it. Overall this year writing wasn’t a problem for me.
Senior year so far is going good. I’m happy with how my life is going so far. This year I have some amazing
teachers, I pretty much love them all. I’m really going to miss them when I graduate.
Senior year is consisting of spending money, I have never felt so broke. I work this whole year. Making money was pretty much important, and I am happier because it’s my last year in high school. I love Ocean Lakes, but getting accepted into ODU has me glowing. Getting accepted to college is a good feeling, sharing my accomplishment with all my close friends and family is what I am doing to do. Turning 18 have been the best thing that has happen to me because I’m an adult now even though my Mom and Dad still takes care of me. One memory I can’t forget is me cutting my hair, I never cut my hair before so me doing that was a drastic change. It was my coming of age. Senioritis affected me a lot this year, I didn’t want to do anything. This year I am excited to graduate, and attend prom because I am going to get dressed up and look pretty. The countdown to graduation has began and I’m really looking forward to the end of the school year.
The stories we had to read senior year were different. To me it felt like we were just reading random novels. My favorite was Pride and Prejudice because it showed me girls really haven’t changed in the 21st century. Frankenstein creep me out just a little. It was an interesting story but the fact he brought the dead brought to life was weird too.
Holding up all my essays I wrote this year was nice. Most of the essays I wrote this year were going to be added to my senior portfolio. Writing the metaphor poem was challenging for me but in the end I managed to accomplish it. Ms. Bayer helped me a lot when it came to writing it. Overall this year writing wasn’t a problem for me.
Senior year so far is going good. I’m happy with how my life is going so far. This year I have some amazing
teachers, I pretty much love them all. I’m really going to miss them when I graduate.
Introduction
During my senior year my assignment was to write a literary analysis on “Frankenstein”. I had to incorporate quotes from the book and used correction citations.
During my senior year my assignment was to write a literary analysis on “Frankenstein”. I had to incorporate quotes from the book and used correction citations.
Frankenstein
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Original
“I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty; and my bedroom was also freed from its hideous guest” (47). If Victor couldn’t accept his own creation not so many others would, they would have felt just the same as Victor did. In the Mary Shelley “Frankenstein”, the reader’s feels empathic toward the creature as a result of Victor’s abandonment, the emotional connection he had for the DeLacey family and finally how alone he felt in the world. These explanations will clearly state why readers should feel sorry for the daemon. Victor’s obsession with human anatomy causes him to create a creature horrific that abandoning him lead to many problems. Victor spends months working on his creation, when he finished he had his doubts. “… the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (43). Victor goes from having a beautiful dream to seeing the horror of his masterpiece. The daemon’s looks soon drive Victor away from him but when they met up for the first time the daemon explains to Victor on how much work Victor put into creating him. “Hateful day when I received life… Why did you form a monster so hideous that you even turned from me in disgust” (118). The monster knows how ugly he looks but never thought his creator would disown him. The monster explains to Victor all he had done when Victor abandoned him. “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me, but as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me” (132). The daemon was miserable alone. He wanted to be accepted and love. Since Victor couldn’t show him the affection he wanted, he asks Victor to create a female creature to look just as him. The daemon tells Victor if he has someone who is as horrified as him then he wouldn’t feel like an outcast alone. All he asks Victor to do was to create something to look just like him but Victor couldn’t even do that for him. Spending weeks developing a relationship with a family the creature makes no contact with, later causes him to suffered resentment. The creature spends weeks watching a family he believes will accept him for who he was. “My attention, at this time, was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors” (119). The creature never makes face contact with the DeLaceys, but he was determined to have them care for him the way he does for them. The creature has gained his courage to talk to the DeLaceys family. “I am now going to claim the protection of some friends, whom I sincerely love, and of whose favor I have some hope” (121). The creature feels closer to DeLaceys more than anything, so he feels that they would protect him no matter now ugly he looked. Frankenstein’s monster faces a reaction from Felix that he could hardly imagine would happen. “I could have torn him limb from limb…. But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained.” (123) He didn’t think he would face rejection from the DeLaceys. The monster grew to love for a family he felt closer than anything but in the end his appearance scared them away. The creature wasn’t accepted the moment he was brought to life, so being alone is what he had to experience. The daemon tries to convince to Victor that the life he was living in wasn’t what he really wanted to do. “Believe me, Frankenstein; I was benevolent; my soul glowed with love and humanity: but am I not alone, miserably alone” (87). The monster tells Victor he wanted to show love to the humans, he didn’t want to harm them. He didn’t want to feel alone but he did. The daemon explains to Victor that all the harm he has cause is from him being alone. “I am malicious because I am miserable” (133). The creature just wanted someone to love him he didn’t want to kill. After everyone the monster kills to make Victor just as miserable as he was, it was the monster who felt terrible after seeing Victor dead. “I the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on. Even now my blood boils at the recollection of this injustice” (209). It was the monster who were alone and miserable, but yet he did understand all the harm he cause in Victor life was wrong. After all the misery the monster went through he stills understand his actions weren’t right. Even though Frankenstein’s monster was a terrible thing brought to life, he had feelings just as any person would. Just because on the outside he didn’t look like a human, in the inside he had the emotions and feelings any person would. In Mary Shelley “Frankenstein” there are many reasons why reader should feel empathic to the daemon such as Victor’s abandonment, the connection he had for the DeLaceys soon turn to rejection, and finally how alone the creature was. Acceptance is all the creature wants. “But I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome I was not even of the same natured as man” (108). No one gave the creature a chance they couldn’t see how nice and genuine he was only because he look nothing like them. |
Rewrite
“I stepped fearfully in: the apartment was empty; and my bedroom was also freed from its hideous guest.” (47) If Victor couldn’t accept his own creation not so many others would, they would have felt just the same as Victor did. In the Mary Shelley “Frankenstein”, the reader’s feels empathic toward the creature as a result of Victor’s abandonment, also an article by Bentley, Colene explaining how he tried to become a citizen, and finally the daemon tried to fit in the human society but his image destroy his life. These explanations will clearly state why readers should feel sorry for the daemon. Victor’s obsession with human anatomy causes him to create a creature horrific that abandoning him lead to many problems. Victor spends months working on his creation, when he finished he had his doubts. “… the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart.” (43) Victor goes from having a beautiful dream to seeing the horror of his masterpiece. The daemon’s looks soon drive Victor away from him but when they met up for the first time the daemon explains to Victor on how much work Victor put into creating him. “Hateful day when I received life… Why did you form a monster so hideous that you even turned from me in disgust” (118). The monster knows how ugly he looks but never thought his creator would disown him. The monster explains to Victor all he had done when Victor abandoned him. “I am alone, and miserable; man will not associate with me, but as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to me” (132). The daemon was miserable alone. He wanted to be accepted and love. Since Victor couldn’t show him the affection he wanted, he asks Victor to create a female creature to look just as him. The daemon tells Victor if he has someone who is as horrified as him then he wouldn't feel like an outcast alone. All he asks Victor to do was to create something to look just like him but Victor couldn't even do that for him. Colene explains in the article how the monster studied everything about human nature. In the article it shows how the daemon explains everything he learned to Victor. “His autobiography, what he calls the story of the "progress of my intellect" (Bentley, Colene). He learned about starting a fire, the moon, and feeling pain. This all shows how bad he wanted to be normal. The article also shows how the monster watches the DeLaceys family on a daily basis. “Not having a language of his own, the monster adopts the family's French vocabulary and pronunciation and learns of the relationship between objects and words like fire, milk, bread, and wood” (Bentley, Colene). The monster believes that the DeLaceys would consider accepting him. After studying the DeLaceys for quite some time the monster finally had courage to speak to them. Frankenstein’s monster faces a reaction from Felix that he could hardly imagine would happen. “I could have torn him limb from limb…. But my heart sunk within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained” (123). He didn’t think he would face rejection from the DeLaceys. In the end all the time he put into learning everything a human can do he was rejected once gain. The creature wanted to feel accepted in the society. The creature seeing Agatha and Felix he wanted to be just like them, learning the language they speak, and being a normal human being. “My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced such words as I understood with tolerable ease. It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration” (103). This shows that people should judge the monster for who he was and not by his image. This shows the true meaning of don’t judge a book by its cover. The monster learned so many new things about human nature such as birth and the different sexes. “But where were my friends and relations? No father had watched my infant days, no mother had blessed me with smiles and caresses; or if they had, all my past life was now a blot, a blind vacancy in which I distinguished nothing.” (109). The more the daemon learned the more he wanted to interact with humans. He save a little girl from drowning in stream but in result a man shoots him thinking the monster was attacking her. “This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone…Inflamed by pain, I vowed eternal hatred and vengeance to all mankind” (129). In result he had to go into hideout for doing a good thing. The daemon was a good person who went bad only because if the society couldn’t accept him what’s the point of him staying a good person. Even though Frankenstein’s monster was a terrible thing brought to life, he had feelings just as any person would. Just because on the outside he didn’t look like a human, in the inside he had the emotions and feelings any person would. In Mary Shelley “Frankenstein” there are many reasons why reader should feel emphatic to the daemon such as Victor’s abandonment, Colene explaining how he tried to become a citizen, and never being accepted in the world. Acceptance is all the creature wants. “But I knew that I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome I was not even of the same natured as man” (108). No one gave the creature a chance they couldn’t see how nice and genuine he was only because he look nothing like them. |