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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Letters (p. 1-14)

Directions: While studying this section, use these topics/questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. A. Premise of the letters (who/what/when/where/why/how/etc.)

B.

Robert Waltons background/upbringing/personality/character

C. What can the determined heart and resolved will of man?

D. The strange accident thats happened

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The stranger Walton picks up (who/what/when/where/why/how/etc.)

F.

Why do Walton and stranger bond so quickly?

G. Why does the stranger agree to tell Walton his story?

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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Ch. 1-5 (p. 14 - 40)

Directions: While studying this section, use these topics/questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. H. The strangers (his name will be revealed in this section) background/upbringing/personality/character

I.

Caroline Beauforts background/upbringing/personality/character

J.

Elizabeth Lavenzas background/upbringing/personality/character

K.

Henry Clervals background/upbringing/personality/character

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L. Studying Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Magnus

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M. Destiny

N. Krempe and Waldman

O. What does Victor finally discover (and why wont he share that knowledge with Walton)?

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P. Details regarding the creation process

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Q. Victors response to the creation

R.

The creatures response to Victor

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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Ch. 6-8 (p. 40-60)

Directions: While studying this section, use these topics/questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. S. Premise of these letters

T.

Justine Moritz

U.

What Victor does after his health improves

V.

How long has Victor been away from home?

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W. Victors visit to the site of Williams murder

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X.

Victors assumptions about the creature

Y.

Murder evidence and trial

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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Ch. 9-12 (p. 61-81)

Directions: While studying this section, use these questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. Z. Victors response after Justines death

AA. Victors journey (geographically and emotionally)

BB. Victors response to the creature

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CC. The creatures background/upbringing/personality/character

DD. The creatures journey (geographically and emotionally)

EE. The creatures motives for his actions

FF. The creatures learning process

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GG. The family being observed by the creature

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HH. The creatures response to its own appearance

II.

The creatures plan to win over the family

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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Ch. 13-17 (p. 81-108)

Directions: While studying this section, use these topics/questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. JJ. Safies character and how her arrival benefits the creature

KK. The creatures reading material

LL. What the creature learns and how it makes him feel

MM.

The DeLacey familys background, etc.

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NN. What the creature finds in the woods and what he learns from them

OO.

How long has the creature been alive? What was Victor doing at this point (see Ch.6)

PP. The creature makes contact with the DeLaceys

QQ.

The creatures hatred for humans is confirmed when

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RR. The creatures interaction with the young boy and the sleeping woman

SS. What does the creature demand from Victor?

TT. Victors initial response to the demand

UU. The creature convinces Victor by.

VV. What does the creature say he will do while Victor works?

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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Ch. 18-21 (p. 108-136)

Directions: While studying this section, use these topics/questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. WW. Victors fathers theory on why Victor is so unhappy

XX. Victor wants to go to England because

YY. The impact of Henry Clervals presence on Victor

ZZ. The Orkney Islands why settle down to work there?

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Why does Victor change his mind and destroy the female creature?

BBB. How the post-destruction scene mirrors the post-creation scene from Ch.5

CCC.

I shall be with you on your wedding-night what Victor thinks it means vs. what it really means

DDD.

Victors disposal of the female creatures remains

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EEE. Mr. Kirwins treatment of Victor

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FFF. Victors trial

GGG.

Victors state of mind/health as he leaves Ireland for France

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Frankenstein Note-Taking Guide Ch. 22-24 (p. 136-166)

Directions: While studying this section, use these topics/questions to guide your note-taking. Write down page numbers to cite your notes, and highlight or underline passages that pertain to these questions or merit discussion in class. HHH. Elizabeths letter to Victor

III.

The marriage plans

JJJ. Victor and Elizabeths post-wedding travels

KKK.

The wedding night

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LLL. The creatures reaction to Victors discover y of Elizabeths body

MMM. The authorities reaction to Victors request for their help

NNN.

Victors pursuit of the creature

OOO.

What does Victor ask Walton to do?

PPP.

Why Victor refuses to tell Walton the details of the creation process

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Waltons avoidance of his crews threat to mutiny

RRR.

Does Victor blame himself for all this?

SSS. Waltons response to Victors death

TTT. A sound interrupts Waltons writing (p. 162) (familiarity of this scene to others in the book)

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UUU. Why has the creature come to see Victor?

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VVV.

The creatures explanation for what hes done

WWW. The creatures next step

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