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In a series of letters, Robert Walton, the captain of a ship heading to the North Pole, encounters Victor Frankenstein, who has been traveling by dog-drawn sled across the ice and is weakened by the cold. Walton takes him on board and starts to hear the story of Victor’s creation and the reason why he ended up at the North Pole. 

At the end of a childhood spent in the company of Elizabeth Lavenza (his adopted sister) and friend Henry Clerval, Victor entered the University of Ingolstadt to study natural philosophy and chemistry. Filled with knowledge and greed, he decides to start collecting body parts so he can make a living creature on its own and challenge all the beliefs of life and death. One night, in his apartment, he brings his creation to life, however, by seeing the creature, he is horrified. After a night of sleep, interrupted by the specter of the monster appearing over him, he runs into the streets, filled with remorse. Victor runs into Henry, who has come to study at the university, and he takes his friend back to his apartment.

Victor gets ill but wants to return to Geneva with his family. Just before departing Ingolstadt, however, he receives a letter from his father informing him that his youngest brother, William, has been murdered. While passing through the woods where William was strangled, he sees the monster and concludes that the monster is his brother's murderer. Victor becomes guilty, knowing that the monster he has created is responsible for the death of loved ones. Hoping to ease his thoughts, Victor takes a vacation to the mountains, where he faces the creature. The monster admits to being the murderer of William but begs for understanding. The monster begs Victor to create a mate for him, a monster equally horrible, to serve as his companion.

Victor refuses at first, horrified by the idea of creating a second monster, but in the end, he accepts to create a companion. After returning to Geneva, Victor heads for England, accompanied by Henry, to gather information for the creation of a female monster. One night, struck by doubts about the morality of his actions, Victor glances out the window to see the monster staring at him with a frightening grin. Horrified by the possible consequences of his work, Victor destroys his new creation, which causes the monster to become “evil” and swears to take revenge on Victor.

Later that night, Victor takes a boat out onto a lake and dumps the remains of the second creature in the water. Later, Henry is found dead, but when the body is shown, Victor is shocked to behold his friend, with the mark of the monster's fingers on his neck.

Shortly after returning to Geneva, Victor marries Elizabeth. He returns home to his father, who dies of grief a short time later. Then on Victor's wedding night, Elizabeth is murdered by the monster, so Victor decides to chase him until he can end the monster’s life. During the chase, Victor almost catches up with the monster, but the ice breaks, leaving a gap between them. At this point, Walton encounters Victor. Walton tells the remainder of the story in another series of letters to his sister. Victor, already ill, dies shortly thereafter. When Walton returns, several days later, to the room in which the body lies, he is surprised to see the monster crying over Victor.

What I would change about the novel is the part where Victor Frankenstein destroys the monster's female companion, and the monster takes revenge by killing Victor’s loved ones. 

In my opinion, this is a fundamental part of the story, because it is the exact part where the monster starts to transform into an evil and lonely being, maybe if something different had happened, the monster would have never killed Henry or Elizabeth, or in another scenario, the monster would have become more powerful with his companion, and that would bring even more adrenaline and suspense to the novel. 

In my version, when Victor sees the monster through the window, he destroys his companion-to-be, but the monster decides to take revenge another way: he attacks Victor. He takes all the body parts he was using to build the companion. Then, after Victor leaves and searches for Henry, the monster enters Victor's lab and decides to build his companion all by himself. After he brings her to life, they become lovers and partners in crime. Together, they began to seek for revenge. The monster couple kills Henry, Elizabeth, and everyone that Victor loves, but that’s not the end of revenge. When Victor decides to dedicate the rest of his days to destroying the monster couple, they tend him to a trap, where they capture him and torture him until he dies. After that, the monster starts to feel guilty, and even though his companion insists that they get rid of the body, he refuses, so they decide that as a way to preserve Victor’s memory and his body, they use Victor’s body parts to create a new member of the monster family, a son for the monster couple. 

This would change a few things in the story, including that the narrator and the person who is telling the story to Walton would have to be someone different, maybe a person who saw how the monster transformed Victor into his son, or maybe the monster' son with Victor’s memories.

Discours d’adieu 

Élèves de 11e année

Remercier à chaque début et à chaque fin est le meilleur comportement de l'âme. Tout au long de toute expérience, il y a des moments splendides et d'apprentissage, donc parcourir des chemins implique une force mentale et physique. Nos étudiantes de 11e année expriment non seulement leur gratitude pour leur passage à Portales, mais aussi leur courage d'avoir persévéré avec discipline et affection pour achever leurs études.

Les voix de leur expérience nous invitent à savoir gérer les situations et à se réjouir de l'avenir. Beaucoup de ces mots d’adieu nous inspirent à persévérer et à nous enthousiasmer pour l’avenir qui nous offre une multitude d’opportunités d’explorer, découvrir, grandir et expérimenter.

<<Bien que nos chemins se séparent, gardons ces bons moments en mémoire>>

<<Aujourd’hui je dis au revoir à mon école, à mes amis et à mes enseignants. Je commence à découvrir ma version adulte>>

<<Portales sera toujours ma maison. Ma place sera ici>>

<<Ma chère école, merci pour tout (...). Je prendre un nouveau chemin, avec beaucoup de mystères et incertains, mais avec l’opportunité de faire ce que j’aime>>

<<J’ai vit beaucoup de moments difficiles, mais je suis très reconnaissant pour les apprentissages que j'ai acquises>>

<<Finalement, je suis éternellement reconnaissant à mes parents pour choisir Gimnasio los Portales comme ma deuxième maison>>

<<Au revoir et bonne chance à chacun de nous pour l’avenir!>>