Lester Young

visit they receive a bill of all the things the boys have broken and the parents offer to stay with the boys. Upon hearing this news, they both grimace and say with hesitation “permanently? While we are traveling the world? Doing our thing? Becoming young men?” It is quite obvious from their uncomfortable tone and body language they do not want them to stay. This is because they were used to being alone and independent. While on the boat, their mind shifted to being alone and taking risks…

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel, Frankenstein, uses neglect, rejection, and the fact that the creature represents a shadow of Victor’s past to create a never ending conflict between Victor and the monster. This causes the death of Victor’s closest friends and family to be murdered by the creature who had suffered since the start of his life. Upon the creation of the monster, Victor flees his apartment to escape the horrors he had just witnessed. The creature was left alone without an explanation or…

In The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky, influences how teenagers battle with character. He does this through a growing anti-school high school student’s point of view. Charlie is an innocent antisocial freshman who is befriended by a group of high school seniors. Charlie’s new friends expose him to a new world of drugs, love, sexuality, parties, relationships, friendship, and lies. His friends play a huge role in his development. They motivate him to explore a new side of life. He…

idolized the president, who at the time, was Barack Obama. I was raised in a town where racism was subtle, but present, but my eyes and ears hadn’t been trained to notice it yet. I internalized much of what I saw and had a preference for whiteness as a young black girl. I was never told that I should hate myself for what I looked like explicitly, self hatred embedded itself in me. As I grew older, into the person…

The poem “Science” by Robinson Jeffers consists of fifteen lines describing the consequences of modern man which ends with a question of their ‘dream.’ The poem references man’s inventions, science and technology, and nature or the environment where man first came to live and proceeded to destroy. Jeffers begins with a description of man, and then ends by questioning, “who would have dreamed this infinitely little too much?” (14-15), referring to what man or humanity has done which displaying…

Mary Shelley’s depiction of the creature in Frankenstein averts toward the idea that common man will reject any idea unsimilar to their own demeanor. Since Victor has created this creature, man does not accept the individual in society as one of their own. The main reasoning for this is from the creature’s appearance; he is seen as vile, ugly, and horrific looking to the average man. However, the average man is also not a Romantic, but rather, just an average man! The people’s reactions toward…

The novel, Frankenstein features Victor Frankenstein as the main character. It narrates the story and journey of an ambitious young man (Victor) who directs most his efforts to the creation of a new life. His efforts eventually get rewarded. After rigorous scientific experiments; he successfully creates a creature that is although different from human beings, has some human characteristics. The creature however does what its master least expects- killing the human race. To even more surprise, it…

Mental Illnesses in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is an iconic horror classic filled with deep, thought provoking themes and well written characters. The novel follows a brilliant yet misguided scientist named Victor Frankenstein. Victor is led down a path of what some would call “the Devil’s arts”, using science to do what no mortal man should be able to accomplish, create life. Frankenstein constructs a living creature, stronger, bigger, and more gruesome than…

A strangled boy, an innocent executed girl, a sick boy, constant fears and several mysterious deaths...It is not a killer, who is guilty of all these terrible and strange events, but a young scientist whose name is Victor Frankenstein. In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein we are told of a man Victor who creates a life. This creation, his creature, is perceived by society because of his physical appearance being so called a “monster” although his creator is in fault of his creatures actions.…

Body Snatchers in the 1800’s In the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley our main protagonist, Victor Frankenstein, steals body parts from dissecting rooms as well as getting the parts from charnel houses during the 1800’s in order to complete his creation. What Victor was doing was called grave robbing and at the time grave robbing was a common occurrence. It was common only in part to the medical fields need for bodies. So the knowledge gained from grave robbing outweighed the wrongdoings of the…