One of the needs that many of the characters wanted was friendship. It all started with Robert Walton’s need for a friend. On his journey he wrote to his sister Margaret, he said, “But I have one want which I have never yet been able to satisfy, and the absence of the object of which I now feel as most severe evil. I have no friend.” (4) This first glimpse of human needs really set the book for what the rest of the characters would be dealing with and how important it would be as a whole to the book. As the book continued on the importance of friendship was strongly shown in the monster. While the monster experienced the world for the first time, he felt the first need for friends when he felt rejection of friendliness. After the rejection
