Writing and Theme
Best description of Theme
A. A message an author tries to convey about the real world using the story.
B. A summarization of the major events of the story.
C. A statement that covers the most important points from the story.
A
(In your Theme notes page)
Engaged to Victor and later marries him. At the trial for William's murder, she does not believe the accused person committed the crime.
Elizabeth Lavenza
Wanted to create a human, but created a monster instead.
Victor Frankenstein
What happens whenever a human sees the creature?
They reject him violently
Definition of Allusion
A reference to another work within a story
Something you can look for to help identify themes
MULTIPLE POSSIBLE ANSWERS
Repetition
Characters
The Title
(In your theme notes page)
Victor's brother. Murdered by the creature.
William Frankenstein
Wanted to be accepted more than anything else. Never was.
The Creature
What did Victor choose to do with the female creature he created and why?
He destroyed it because he was afraid the two of them would hurt more people.
Definition of Metaphor
A literary device that describes something in a way that isn't literally true to make a comparison between different things.
The best example of a theme statement
A. The Cat in the Hat was wrong because he destroyed a family's home.
B. When someone dies, you feel grief and pain
C. Revenge doesn't relieve suffering, it only makes people feel worse
D. Suffering
C
(It's about real life, it's something that could be debated about, and it's something that a story could demonstrate)
Falsely accused of the murder of William Frankenstein. Executed for the crime.
Justine Moritz
Fascinated by life and death from an early age
Victor Frankenstein
When the creature said "I will be with you on your wedding night," what did Victor think he meant? What does the reader think he meant?
Victor thinks the creature is going to kill him on his wedding night, but we know he is actually going to kill Elizabeth.
Definition of Characterization
How an author illustrates a character's personality to the reader.
In the RACE paragraph format, what do the letters stand for?
Restate
Answer
Cite
Explain
Victor's best friend. Cheerful and friendly. Murdered by the creature.
Henry Clerval
Learns much about the world through books.
Both Victor and the Creature
Name at least two events that lead Victor to attempt to create a human being.
(POSSIBLE RESPONSES)
He saw lightning strike a tree and destroy it
He read books from authors like Agrippa, Magnus, and Paracelsus that convinced him it was possible
His mother died of scarlet fever
His father and one of his professors dismissed and mocked the authors he was interested in without explaining why
One of his professors encouraged his interest.
Definition of Independent Clause and Dependent Clause.
Independent: A group of words that contains a subject and a predicate and can stand on its own as a sentence.
Dependent: A group of words that contains a subject and a predicate and cannot stand on its own as a sentence because it has a subordinating conjunction.
SPECIAL QUESTION:
Listen to the story and write down a theme statement. Best one gets the points.
Best theme statement
The last person to see Victor alive
Walton
Life was consumed by revenge
How does Victor change after Elizabeth dies?
(POSSIBLE ANSWERS)
He goes from waiting for the creature to come to him, to chasing after the creature.
Before, he had accepted that the creature would kill him, and after, he decides to fight back and get revenge.
The three sentence types and what each must have.
Simple: Independent Clause
Compound: Two Independent Clauses
Complex: An Independent Clause and a Dependent Clause.