What Happened To Mary Shelley's Frankenstein?

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Cecilia woke up on the middle of the floor. Her heart beat fast as she leapt to her feet and ran out of the house just in time to see the smoking house crumble behind her. Cecilia stood in horror as her childhood home burnt to the ground. She was too overwhelmed to do much except for examine the memories of old that shot threw her head, like when Jeremy rode her like a horse through the living room, and he laughing like nothing in the world was wrong. Jeremy. Cecilia started to whine. Soon tears ran down her face. She bawled. He didn't make it out. Neither did Mom ,Dad , or Kate. She fell to her knees as she had to close her eyes to stop her self from looking at her whole life on fire. She finally got herself together enough to think. " They …show more content…
she ran to it as fast as she could. "Oh Father!" she thought but she soon found that it wasn’t. It was an old man. The scientist to be exact. Anger rushed though her so quickly, she clenched her teeth. The memories came again but they showed much different ones then before, but awful memories that she had never wanted to revisit ; much like the one she was living now. This particular memory was of the day she met the scientist. Her parents, Joan and Mark Carmile, being the kind and loving people they were had let their fellow scientist hide in there house from the Government. You see the government where Cecilia's family lived wanted full power of its people and felt that the knowledge of the scientists was threatening them and sought to remove them from society, in other words, they shot them dead so they wouldn’t have to deal with them later. Due to the Governments cruel treatment, the Carmile's had to keep their identities a secret so that they could stay in their home and continue their work but be undetected. Everything was working out great until the scientist showed up at there door one night begging for a safe haven. It woke up all the children as well as the adults when knocked franticly at the door." Please …show more content…
The very stream beneath their feet ran red. Cecilia had never been allowed in Dudley before this was all new to her. Professor Ridley saw Cecilia observing. " My dear child, you must not ponder on this town that we will soon enter. This town is a town of many sins, Cecilia." "But Professor, answer me this, why is that river running red?" "It is a warning to the scientists of the community in hiding. A warning that if they do not leave they will be put in the concentration camp at the mouth of the river, and I believe you can figure out the rest for yourself." This was extremely distressing to Cecilia. She looked down at the river as they continued to walk across. "Help!" someone said. The Professor and Cecilia heard the faint noise. "Hello?" Cecilia questioned. Their was a groan of acknowledgement. All of a sudden they were in the presence of a small blonde haired blue eyed girl that was floating in the river. She was in a rag dress that was stained awfully. Cecilia jumped in the river to try and rescue the child, for she could absolutely not bear to see anymore death in only one 24 hour period. The red river was strangely swift as Cecilia encased herself in it. She grabbed the girl and swam the edge of the river. Cecilia trudged up the river bed, dragging the small child. The Professor hobbled to them from the bridge on his bad leg. The young

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