Prologue To Mary Shelley's 'Monster'

It was the same old dream.
She’d turn the key in the lock and open the door. To her horror, she’d see that same old monster. It was a different kind of monster although. She couldn 't see it even though she definitely tried to. She felt it move and creep around her. Looking at her every move and waiting for the right time to attack. She ran around the house trying to find something to hide under. But she never knew whether the monster was in that room or not.
“Will you get up already?” Emily’s sister Molly shouted.
Emily sprung out from her covers struggling as as it seemed she grabbed them for shelter in the middle of the night. Emily sat there for minutes trying to figure out why this dream keeps on resurfacing. She trudged out of bed and did the same old routine. Get dressed, eat, brush hair and then brush teeth. Once at school, she went through the same old classes, the same route home and the same boring homework, to the same yelling at home. Emily thought it was exhausting. She read somewhere that humans like routines, but she hated them. Her parents loved them as it seemed to her.
Today was a little bit unusual for Emily. …show more content…
She was confused about many things, but Emily knew that she didn 't want to experience this monster again. So when she went upstairs to do her normal routine she didn 't turn the light off. Emily decided that the best way to not experience this monster is to not sleep. Her tiredness got the best of her when she lay down for what seemed like only a few seconds but lasted a lifetime to Emily. It only took a couple of minutes for the monster to come back in her dreams. It swallowed her whole and caused Emily to become terrified even more then she knew she could have. Emily pried her eyelids open and was taken back to her bedroom just as she left it before. She clutched onto her legs and kept her eyes open the rest of the night. It wasn 't hard for her