By: Shirley Huang

Last week, I read a book called Frankenstein, written by Mary Shelly. Now, I will tell you what the story talked about, what the moral is, and its interaction with our everyday lives. Let’s get going!

In Frankenstein, the main character, who is called Victor Frankenstein, is a scientist working in a lab. He creates a monster by accident and abandons it. He has bad dreams all the time, and the monster ends up murdering a sibling and a friend of Victor. When Victor Frankenstein asks the monster why he does that, he replies, “I want to live in a world where people care for me. Nobody cares for me in this world.”

The monster demands to have a wife, and Frankenstein gets in his lab and starts to create a female monster. When he was about to bring it to life, Victor saw the monster’s evil glee outside the window. He thinks quickly, and cuts the monster in half. The monster says that he will be at his sibling’s wedding, and sure enough, he shows up. He scares the bride to death. At the end, the story’s narrator, Captain Edwards, says that the monster came on board off the ship and jumped off the boat saying that he would kill himself. And sure enough, he does.

This story tells me a moral. The moral, which I learned from the monster, is don’t tell a book by its cover. You have to read a thing, for example, the monster is not scary and evil, in its heart, it is nice and kind. It just wants to be taken care of, like all of us. All of us value care, for if you don’t get care, you won’t be comfortable, and you will feel sad and lonely if no one cares about you.Their hearts might be kind, caring, and nice, and we won’t want to hurt those kinds of people.

This book really taught me a lot of things. In the past, people thought that some kind of people were bad, I hope things like that won’t happen again, and we will live a peaceful life.