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    Les Misérables was written by Victor Hugo, who was born on February 26, 1802 and died May 22, 1885. He is a French poet, novelist, and dramatist, and most important French Romantic writers. His parents separated, due to different political views and Hugo’s father traveling from base to base. Victor Hugo adopted his mother’s royalist political views as a child. Although he graduated from a law faculty at Paris as a poor student, he knew he wanted to pursue a career in writing. In 1822, he married

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    As many months pass in the eighteenth century, Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a giant monster out of other deceased humans. As soon as the monster comes to life, the monster was immediately despised by everyone who he had seen, but the monster just wanted a friend. Nobody seemed to be kind enough to accept the monster. The monster was furious, he had taken his anger out on Dr. Frankenstein and murdered Frankenstein’s younger brother. When the monster finally met Frankenstein after many months alone

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    Question #7- What difficult circumstances is Walton encountering when he meets Victor Frankenstein? In the letters that Robert Walton sent to his sisters, there is legit evidence that he was encountering difficult circumstances when he met Victor Frankenstein. When Walton's vessel was sailing to the Northern Pole they encountered heavy fog and lots of ice. Walton's exact words were, "...we were nearly surrounded by ice" (8). and he also exclaimed, "...we were compassed round by a very thick fog"

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    Victor vs. The Creature Frankenstein by Mary Shelley is an incredible novel that is as popular as it has ever been, despite being written in the 1700´s. One of the main reason for its notoriety is how well Mary Shelley was able to develop the main characters in the story. The story focuses around Victor Frankenstein and the Creature, who are uniquely presented as to leave it up to the reader to decide who the good guy in the story is, and who is the villain. Each conducted many actions that were

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    In Frankenstein, we notice that Victor never names his creature. I believe that there are several reasons as to why Victor does not name this creature and it starts with Mary Shelley. I believe that Shelley refrained from giving the creature a name in her story to show that he is not human. It separates him from the human characters in the book because he is simply called “creature”. To give him a name would make him appear more human like and there is no doubt that he is a monster. We can assume

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    Money and Morality in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables Since its creation, money has been the obstacle for human survival as it’s needed to acquire most of the basic human needs for survival. Naturally, this means that some people will go to great lengths to obtain money when needed. Victor Hugo shows this happening several times in his novel Les Misérables. In his novel, Hugo uses characters - like Jean Valjean, Fantine, and the Thenardiers - experiencing poverty to reveal how the need for money can

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    getting revenge. The two main characters for me that was thought to get revenge was Victor and the creature. Victor is the one of the main characters in the story of “Frankenstein”. He has his own ways of getting revenge which mostly occur on his own creature, although it is because of his creatures actions that makes him do what he does. One of the ways Victor got his revenge was when he destroyed

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    Rain of Gold, is a true story about the history of Mexican people, their culture, traditions and customs that were passed down from the Euro-Indian heritage of Mexico. Rain of Gold was written by Juan Villasenor in search for his ancestral roots. The people of this story are real and not fiction. The places that are discussed are true. And the incidents did actually happen to his family. There are several underlying themes that need addressing. Such as: the importance of family, the importance

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    H The Man Who Laughs is a timeless novel centered around the horrific deeds of the Comprachicos during the 17th century. Written while in exile, Victor Hugo's work calls attention to the social injustices of the working class of the time and the opposing sides of human nature that still hold true today. The radically different sides of human nature exhibited in this novel compare moral goodness and inclinations towards evil found in humanity. Hugo begins his piece with preliminary chapters explaining

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    A novel is a form as the letter leader Robert Walton of an arctic expedition team wrote for his elder sister. While going to the geographic pole, Walton finds the man who weakened and helps him at the Arctic Ocean. He is Victor Frankenstein, and he begins to tell Walton about the experience. A youth from the Switzerland of good family and Frankenstein were aiming at a scientist. He left the home and were learning natural science by Germany. But Frankenstein gets tired clearing mystery of the life

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