Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, A Modern Prometheus

Anticipation Guide

1. The key to all emotional healing can be found in nature.
Agree

2. Nature is filled with harsh cruelties.
Agree

3. A person’s priorities should place family before work.
Agree

A family is the most important thing in a person’s life. When we talk about a family we mean parents and children that love each other. Work is the place where people go to make money for themselves, but most importantly for their family. It is beyond my understanding why anyone would put their work before their family. Work is something you have to do, in our society, so as to make the money you need to support your loved ones. A family consists of unique individuals that are irreplaceable. With work things are different. I am not arguing the fact that work is important, but no work in the world is worth losing your family for. Any work, no matter how important it is, can be changed if it is to the expense of member of your family. People change many jobs throughout their lives. So when it comes to a person’s priorities, family should always come before work. Just the assumption of losing a member of your family compared to losing your job clearly shows that no one should even be thinking of reversing the priorities. For the reasons above I certainly agree that it is a person’s priority to place family before work!

4. Enjoying life is more important than persuing fame, glory, and knowledge.

Agree

5. Those born with social and financial advantages have a responsibility for those who are not.
Agree

6. Ignorance is bliss.
Disagree

7. The pursuit of knowledge is a volatile quest.
Agree

8. Someone’s ego (over-inflated sense of self-worth or superiority) will cause a tragic fall.

Agree

9. Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults.
Agree

Young children don’t identify what is right and what is wrong. Children do a lot of stuff, good and bad, all the time because they can’t clearly think of what they’re doing. Children at a young age want to learn more about what to do, how to talk, how to behave and the only way to learn that is by observing their surroundings, meaning their parents or other relative adults. Children spend most of their time every day with their parents and other children, but if they want to learn how to behave properly the logical things to do is look at your parents and see how they behave. In short, If the parents of a child don’t behave properly, use proper and intelligent language and be a really good outstanding example for their child to be throughout his/her growth, but instead being exactly the opposite thing, bad behavior, cruel, terrible, inappropriate language, then the child will see that and of course mime it, if that child wants to learn how to behave. Adults are the children source of behavior, the children watch the adults around them and see how they behave because their adults and children think that they know what’s the right behavior to have, so the children mime those adults they see and especially, like I mentioned their parents. I certainly agree that Children learn their behaviors by watching and mimicking adults. If an adult has really good behavior, then the child will have really good behavior because that is what children do, mimicking adults, it's just their job as they grow.

10. Most people are basically cruel.
Disagree

11. Society makes a person whatever he becomes.
Agree

12. The “disenfranchised man,” who finds himself unable to live within society for whatever reason, is someone for whom we should feel sympathy or reverence.
Agree

13. Rejection and mistreatment can manifest themselves in a person becoming rage-filled.
Agree

14. If a person or an animal is treated with cruelty, he will respond to others in the same way.
Agree

15. Those people we deem “monsters” in today’s society are merely misunderstood.

Disagree

Perspective Piece To Kill a Mockingbird

It was time, Judge Taylor called my name and asked me to go up in the front and tell him and Atticus what I know about the situation, but what can I tell them? That my father raped me?! Not good, I can’t say this, my father will kill me, I can’t… I can’t…

-“Miss Mayella?” Atticus interrupted my thought, I turned and looked at him for a moment, took a deep breathe and looked back at the Judge again.

-“Miss Mayella are you ready to begin?” the Judge asked me, my voice came out cracking and all that I said was:

-“Ye…s”, deep inside me I was screaming, “No, no let me go, I want to leave!” but who could hear me, I was frightened, I can’t tell the truth, if my father goes into jail who knows what else he could do to me! The questions began, Atticus kept asking me questions about my injuries and he wanted to know everything, every single move everyone did from the beginning of the crime until the very end, that Atticus, thinks he knows everything, thinks his smart, thinks he can rule this trial, always walks in front and asks you questions with a really annoying attitude.

-“Miss Mayella?” Will you answer my question ma’am who did this to you? Atticus interrupted my thought… again. I didn’t want to answer, I didn’t know what to say, I can’t… I just can’t lie!

-“Did what?” I asked like a fool.

-“All of these and of course the…” he said pointing at my neck and other injuries.

-“Oh that, well it was…” I paused, I started getting sweaty, my heart was about to jump out my chest, I took a look at my father, his face was giving me even more fear, his look, innocent from the outside, but evil form the inside, how could he do this to me?!

-“Miss Mayella, please, who did this to you? Who raped you?” Atticus asked.

-“Miss Mayella, you have to say the truth ma’am” Judge Taylor added. I got fed up with this I just wanted to scream that:

-“It was…” I said loudly, but I paused again, inside me I screamed, “My father, Mr. Ewell!” but who could hear me. I had to stop this…

-“It was Tom Robinson” I said.

-“Are you sure ma’am?” Atticus asked.

-“You calling me dumb Mr. Finch?!” I said in a really rude tone.

-“I was just saying Miss Mayella, relax.”

-“Am I done now?”

-“Yes Miss Mayella you may leave.” Judge Taylor said.
I walked away.