Young offender

As a child or young adult you commit many errors. As I can recall I like most young adults had done something bad with consequences. It was a warm summer day the sky was clear. The streets full of cars. Children playing and having fun due to summer vacation. I woke up that morning not really knowing what I was going to do that day clueless on how my day was going to go. That morning I did the usual got dressed and relaxed. Towards noon I got a text from a friend. My friends planned to skate by…

One day, in 1960, a man named Tim Dinsdale drove to Loch Ness in Scotland and began to film something that would change reality. People should believe that the Loch Ness monster may exist in Loch Ness. The fact that the Loch Ness monster exists is supported by significant evidence that includes water-based sightings, land-based sightings, film/pictures, and sonar evidence. This monster is according to Dictionary.com “a large aquatic animal resembling a serpent or a plesiosaur like a reptile,…

Love is a destructive force. This is the common theme shared by the story of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and the ancient Roman text The Aeneid by Vergil. The deer and fire imagery that highlights the disastrous love of Dido and Aeneas is referenced through Victor Frankenstein. Both texts comment on powerful emotions and unavoidable fate. The tragedy itself begins with the realization that love is painful. In the Aeneid, Dido doesn’t realize how strong her feelings for Aeneas are until it’s too…

In today’s society, there are a handful of people being treated incorrectly causing them to make bad decisions. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is about Victor creating a creature that killed family members because of poor direction. Victor was guilty of the monsters actions because the monster was abandoned. Victor chose how he wanted the creature to act because he created it. The setting of Frankenstein took place in Victor's hometown, where all his family and friends were. Through isolation,…

“ But such as not my destiny; I must pursue and destroy the being to whom I gave existence; then my lot on earth will be fulfilled, and I may die” (Shelley 215). Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, tells a story of a man, Victor, who creates a monster and is miserable after making this creature. Victor’s narcissism causes him to have a miserable life. Victor’s self-isolation, want for glory, and defending his reputation are the cause of his wretchedness. Victor’s belief that he is the most miserable…

Who is accountable for their actions when children are young; the child or the parent? In, the book Frankenstein the main character Victor, creates a Creature, in his image. The Creature goes physco and begins killing people. Victor creates the creature The Creature’s responsibilities directly affect how the monster is perceived; the Creature can control his actions, emotions and feelings; therefore the Creature is responsible for the tragedies in the book. The Creature was created by Victor.…

This passage from Frankenstein is a key part of the stories meaning because it highlights the issue of what to think of the creature. It comes at the end of the story after Frankenstein finally reaches his limits and becomes the creature’s last victim. The passage causes reflection on the question that comes up when the monster tells his story, what makes him a monster. Is it because his evil deeds that were spurred on by despair and loneliness. Is he a beast that should be hated or should this…

Adolescence is a difficult time in anyone's life. Many teens are caught up between trying to be an adult and wanting to stay a child. There are certain characteristics that reflect which part a teen is stuck on, such as maturity. In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden the narrator is greatly lacking in maturity. Throughout this novel he exemplifies that he is a very impulsive teen with the want to be an adult. Holden has many outbursts showing he has no control over his actions and is…

monster. As the novel, progresses the question emerges as to who is the real monster. Victor Frankenstein, the oldest son of Alphonse and Caroline Beaufort Frankenstein and husband of Elizabeth Lavenza, was born in Geneva, Switzerland. When Victor was young, his family went on vacation to Italy and there they met a poor family, the family of Elizabeth Lavenza. Elizabeth was one of five kids in her family and they were starving, but according to her parents, she was left in their care by a…

Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, is a book steeped in metaphors, parallels, and relations to other works of fiction and non-fiction, featuring authors and thinkers such as Milton and Wollstonecraft. While much of this is readily visible within the book and footnotes, it is the hidden arc, or rather the twisting of the story of Genesis from the Bible, whose meaning permeates deep within the structure of the book. Shelley uses the Genesis story of the creation of man by God as parallel to the…