Junior

I felt very nostalgic while I was reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. I think it is a heartbreaking story because for most of the time I felt very sympathetic with the creature. While I was enjoying the story, I realized of many things that happen every day in our lives. Among many things, the story has proved that humans need to live in society with other humans. The story has also proved that rejection can cause many problems in the minds of the people. Frankenstein was “born” and was abandoned by its own creator. This abandonment caused him to feel rejected although he continued trying to find good people that could accept him. He found a small family in a cottage and during a long period of time they were his family. But, when he encouraged himself to go see them, he encountered rejection again. His need of being in society made him seek for people who could accept him. However, this need of being accepted and in the company of other people disappeared after being rejected by several people again and again. He also found that he had no roots, he came from no place, and he had no name: he was not as the rest of the people. He began thinking that he should make his creator pay for what he suffered. Rejection made him be revengeful and this is shown in our society. Children who have suffered a great deal of problems and abandonment show themselves to be, in the worst of cases, criminals. I think Frankenstein is a story that leaves so much room for discussion. It definitely provides food for thought since you can easily identify problems that are present in the story which still happen nowadays. It would be great to bring Frankenstein to the classroom and discuss many of the issues depicted in the plot such as: identity, self-esteem, marginalization, family and regret.
I very much enjoyed reading Frankenstein junior story.