Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. Letters.
The beginning of this book is following the pursuits of Robert Walton, an Englishmen who has gone to Russia to begin a voyage into the arctic oceans to discover something. Vaguely, this part of this book reminded me of another book I had read last year, Endurance which detailed another arctic voyage to the other side of the world and that ended in a much different way. That is besides the point, just me off topic again. Anyways, the fourth letter that Walton sends his sister is actually a collection of journal entries that he has compiled detailing his discovery of a stranger whom we come to know as Victor Frankenstein. Where this frame story ends is with the transition into Frankenstein telling his misfortunes to Robert.
The most exciting part of this section of reading was when we see the monster for the first time and do not even recognize it.
"We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the North, at the distance of a half mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently gigantic stature, sat on the sledge, and guided the dogs" (Shelly, 8).
Yeah, that just happened.
Blink and you'll miss it, but we soon find out that Victor became stranded on the frozen ocean while in pursuit of the creature which is where the next section of reading picks up.
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