Short Book Report of Frankenstein (the Book) by Mary Shelly

Frankenstein While Robert Walden, an explorer, was going to the North Pole, he was totally surrounded by ice. He saw a man, Victor Frankenstein, who was in bad shape and took him aboard. Victor told him his life story. Frankenstein grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. His only friend was Henry Clervel. When Victor was 19 he became interested in science. He went to Ingolstadt, Germany to go to a university. At the university he quickly became …

…records the incredible tale in a series of letters addressed to his sister, Margaret Saville, in England. Setting When Frankenstien tells his story to Walton, they are in the Artic. However, when Frankenstein is telling his story, it takes place in places in Europe such as Ingolstadt and Geneva. The time which the story takes place is somewhere around the late 1700s. The author tries to create a "spooky" setting for some of the story.