In response to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the story depicts a young Victor Frankenstein and how his curiosity resulted in the creation of his monster. We see his monster deal with an array of emotions from anger, loneliness and neglect from his creator which his desperately seeked. In response he reacts in anger by killing Victors brother, friend and his fiancé Elizabeth. In the end of the story we see the monster show a emotion he had not shown, remorse, as he weepers of his dead creators lifeless body in realization that his only chance of having a companion was gone and he was part of the reason.
1) On page 86 Kien talks about seeing one of his old war comrades, do you think that this was a effect of post traumatic stress syndrome? 2) Why do you think Kien was suddenly having flashbacks of the Screaming Jungle? 3) What do you think writing did for Kien, far as helping with the after effects of the war? 4) Why do you think Kien was sadly wandering the streets on page 86? 5) What do you think Kien was talking about when he said writing lead him into a labyrinth? 6) Why do you think Kien said that the dead sometimes had more meaning than the living? 7) What does the quote "dying and surviving were separated by a thin line" mean to you? 8) On pages 95-96 Quang tells Kien to shoot him and put him out of his misery, but Kien decides not to do it. Why do you think Kien choose not to shoot and what would you do if you were placed in the same predicament? 9) On page 93 Kien expresses his remorse for not coming in time to save the injured solider in the crater, ...
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