Frankenstein is about this young man named Victor Frankenstein who is obsessed with bringing back the dead to life and so studies for many years and he try’s to create this monster from other body parts and he successfully creates this monster which end’s up being a disaster for Victor Frankenstein. In the book there are a couple of main characters, Victor Frankenstein, Robert Walton, The Monster. The monster is Frankenstein’s creation who is created from old body parts and chemicals. He ends up being really tall and really strong but he is as smart as a newborn child. Abandoned by his creator, he tries to integrate himself into society only to be shunned. And so he seeks his revenge on Victor Frankenstein by killing his brother, best friend and his wife and two innocent people in the process. Walton captains a ship heading towards the North Pole but gets stuck in some ice and he has to wait for it to thaw out. While he is waiting they see something in the distance, its Frankenstein looking for the monster and they pick him up and Frankenstein begins to tell his story. Like Frankenstein, Walton is a explorer chasing after the unpossessed knowledge. And so who is really the monster in Frankenstein?

Victor Frankenstein could actually be the real monster in the book. Victor creates this monster that ends up killing his brother, best friend, and his wife and two innocent people. He tells know about what he created and who is killing all the people he cares about. He goes from an innocent young man interested in science into a disillusioned, guilt-ridden man determined to kill the monster. “I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer. Elizabeth read my anguish in my countenance, and kindly taking my hand, said, “My dearest friend, you must calm yourself. These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are. There is an expression of despair, and sometimes of revenge, in your countenance that makes me tremble. Dear Victor, banish these dark passions. Remember the friends around you, who centre all their hopes in you. Have we lost the power of rendering you happy? Ah! While we love, while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing–what can disturb our peace?” (ch9) Victor’s guilt about the death’s of William and Justine causes him to seek revenge on the monster. This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend–“I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT!” Such was my sentence, and on that night would the daemon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings. On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes by my death. Well, be it so; a deadly struggle would then assuredly take place, in which if he were victorious I should be at peace and his power over me be at an end. If he were vanquished, I should be a free man. Alas! What freedom? Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free. Such would be my liberty except that in my Elizabeth I possessed a treasure, alas, balanced by those horrors of remorse and guilt which would pursue me until death.” (ch22) Victor doesn’t want to pull Elizabeth into his destructive interactions with the monster, but he has a obsession that will not give him peace.

But the monster could actually be the monster in the book. The monster gets deserted by his creator, Frankenstein, who is thrown into the real world and is hated real quickly be everyone because he is to ugly and that he looks like a monster. So the monster gets enraged that no one likes him, so he sets out to get revenge on Frankenstein for doing this to him. He ends up killing Frankenstein’s brother, best friend, and eventually his wife. But he does it in revenge for Frankenstein creating him.  “As I fixed my eyes on the child, I saw something glittering on his breast. I took it; it was a portrait of a most lovely woman. In spite of my malignity, it softened and attracted me. For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.” (ch16) The monster is upset that normal people will not treat him with kindness and respect because he is not attractive. “At that instant the cottage door was opened, and Felix, Safie, and Agatha entered. Who can describe their horror and consternation on beholding me? Agatha fainted, and Safie, unable to attend to her friend, rushed out of the cottage. Felix darted forward, and with supernatural force tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung, in a transport of fury, he dashed me to the ground and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him on the point of repeating his blow, when, overcome by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel.” (ch15) This was the monster finally attempt to find a place in society but it is ruined when the blind man’s family come home and force’s him out. And so the monster has had his breaking point so that’s when he declares that he will get revenge on Frankenstein.

So technically the monster is the real monster in the book Frankenstein, but in my opinion Victor Frankenstein is the real monster. Victor creates this monster because he wants to do something that has never been done in human history and that is bring someone back from the dead. With that being said he creates the monster, and it ends up being a disaster . The monster ends up killing Frankenstein’s family and friend, and two innocent people in the process of getting revenge. The monster is tortured by the fact that he can’t live a simple normal life. He goes to the farm house trying to make friends with the blind man and he does but then he’s family comes in and runs him out of the house. So if Frankenstein never created him he would have never been tortured by the fact that he can’t live a normal life.

 

Valentine’s day is celebrated almost everywhere in the world. We spend on average almost $20 billions a year on valentine’s day. So why is it being debated if we should have valentine’s day as a holiday or not.  Valentine’s day goes back centuries before our time. When King Claudius II saw that his soldiers we getting home sick because they had wife and kids back home, he decided to ban marriage. So a priest named Valentine decided to go against his ruling and marry people secretly.  So if King Claudius never did that then we may never had valentine’s day at all.  So in my argument I don’t think we should celebrate valentine’s day at all. 

Why should we celebrate valentine’s day at all? Why do we have to take out one day of the year to love our loved ones even more than any other day in the year, it doesn’t make sense. We should love our love ones the same amount that we do on valentine’s day. It doesn’t make sense to take out of day on the year to treat our love ones with a little more respect than we usually do just because a priest named Valentine’s told us too.  Like I said before, that if King Claudius never thought that his soldiers showed home sickness that the priest would have never went behind the kings back and marry people secretly.

Why we should celebrate valentine’s day?  It’s the day of love and romance. It’s the day were we can spoil our loved ones a little more than we usually do. Even though is gives the economy a little boost in sales, because we spent almost $20 billion on valentine’s day this year. More people do tend to celebrate valentine’s day according to fundivo.com 1 in 2 american do plan of celebrating valentine’s each year or 54.8 % of people.  It does get everyone together, so we can love each other. It doesn’t push us apart but it brings us closer on valentine’s day.

 

https://newsela.com/articles/lib-history-valentines-day/id/25570/

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When Charles Darwin got out of college at the age of 22 he sent on a peregrination to South America. He expected to only go for two years but he actual he sent out for five years. In his time when he was away he saw many different animals. He realized that they were different in the tiniest ways.  So he took them back to England, were Darwin lived at the time. He studied the finches that he gathered. He showed them to ornithologists, they told Darwin that he had a dozen different species of finches and they were different from those seen anywhere else. Darwin examined the beaks of the birds, and he saw how they adapted to eating different kinds of seeds that were on the islands.  By the time Darwin was 30 years of age he already had a theory that when something happens in the environment individuals adapt to the issue and then reproduce and over time you get a new species. When Darwin was older he settle into a more rustic lifestyle, which ultimately led to his death in 1882 at the age of 73.

In the selection the author uses two verses from Charles Darwin’s book “On the Origin of Species” he says “As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be naturally selected. From the strong principle of inheritance, any selected variety will tend to propagate its new and modified form”.  The author used this quote because it explains how Charles Darwin’s new theory is real and that he didn’t just come up with it. The author talks about how Darwin didn’t just want to say his theory with some actual evidence behind it some Darwin did get his evidence and then he supported his theory in his book “On the Origin of Species”.  So then the author uses another quote from Darwin’s book saying that  “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” The author used this quote to even more prove that Darwin’s theory was a fact and not fiction.

Students now a days are suffering from all sorts of mental stresses because of school work and the pressure from their parents to get into a good college. Students get some of these stresses because they don’t live up to their parents expectations of them too do good in school, and another way is that they are afraid to go to school because they suffer from these stresses. The author says here that “She suffered a disabling emotional breakdown after she read her parent’s text message asking her to come home and talk about her grades”. Things like this can cause a student to break down and develop depression because they don’t do good in school. Another thing the author talks about is “Over felt High School on the East Side of San Jose, Calif., has seen a sudden rise in student panic attacks, where kids have an intense feeling that something bad will happen. Anxiety disorder rose this past fall among teens in nearby schools as well”.  More students are developing anxiety disorder and things of that nature is because of the school work and the pressure from their parents to do good in school.  I could make a personal connection here, like myself I have a little anxiety at times because of all the school work that I have to do, and I have been depressed at one point in my high school career from some of the bad grades that I have gotten. But I can’t say I have suffered from a panic attack but when I do bad in school I do tend to panic a little because my parents think highly of me to do good and school and when I do bad, I tend to stress a little.

https://newsela.com/articles/anxiety-teens/id/2771/

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