Frankenstein Book Report

Frankenstein Book Report  

                The book, Frankenstein, is a science fiction horror story written by Mary Shelley. Throughout the book, you read about Victor Frankenstein and his life as a scientist interested in how the human body was created and how it works. Though his ambitions lead him to a life of unhealthy obsessions, there is still a lesson to be learned from reading about Victor's journey through life, nature, and science.

The beginning of Frankenstein starts with what is called a frame story, so the story starts with ship captain Robert Walton and his crew rescuing a stranger from the frozen sea. After they feed and house him, the stranger decides to tell the captain his life story, this is where the story begins. He starts out with introducing himself as Victor Frankenstein and tells him about his happy childhood growing up and his interests in nature and science.

As Victor grows up, he is about to go to a university when his mother catches scarlet fever and dies. Though this was hard on Victor, he still goes off to school to pursue his passion in nature and science. While at the university, Victor decides to learn more about how the human body was created, so Victor does so by studying dead bodies all day and night and putting the human body parts together to create a living human. As Victor realizes the monster e has created, Victor rushes out of the room, afraid of what he has done.

Little does Victor know what this great obsession of his would turn into as the creature would go on to murder three people, Victor’s little brother, and Victor’s best friend. The reasoning for murders was revenge towards Victor for creating him differently, which made everyone not accept him. Because of the creature's actions, Victor goes out to find him and learns all the creature wants is a partner, and if Victor can create the creature a friend, he will leave him alone. Victor agrees, but then later backs down from the offer, realizing that he would regret his decision. Victor later marries his adoptive sister but she is later murdered by the creature because of Victor not making the creatures partner. Victor is then furious and goes on a manhunt to find the creature once and for all. Near the end of the book, Victor is found in the north pole with a sled and a sled dog. He is then rescued by sea captain Robert Walton and housed till health. While recovering, Victor is accompanied by the unwanted creature panning to come for Victor's life, but just before he does, captain Robert comes into the room and scares the creature off, not to be seen again.   

I think the book, Frankenstein, was a great read. I learned that if you let your obsessions get the best of you, they can haunt you for the rest of your life. On that note, you should never let earthly things become an obsession and that's where I think Victor went wrong. His interests in nature and science from a young age grew to be a big obsession of his, and I'm sure he regretted it. I would recommend this book to 10-14-year-olds. Overall, I really liked this book and the message it presented.