Keep reading! Read on in your book now – start the reading timer below. Then decide which traits fit Victor and which fit the creature, write a short answer, and work through the grammar reviews and the big discussion.
Were you ill last lesson? Did you not manage to read? Or was the text too difficult to understand on your own? Use this short introduction instead – but try to read the real book as soon as you can.
In the middle of the novel, the creature meets Victor again in the mountains. It is angry, but it also wants to be understood. So it tells Victor its own story – the story of a “child” that nobody ever loved. While it lived in the forest, it found a poor family, the De Laceys, and watched them through a hole in the wall. From them it learned everything: language, reading, and what a happy family looks like. It even read famous books like Milton's Paradise Lost. The creature was not born evil. Read on and find out what changed it.
Who does each trait describe – Victor or the creature? Drag every card into the correct column and click Check.
Answer in 2–3 sentences: Why does the creature change from a kind being into a dangerous one? Use words like lonely, rejected, hate, revenge.
Victor and the creature have more in common than it seems. Use neither … nor (weder … noch) to join two negative ideas into one sentence.
In the creature's story, things often happen to someone. Fill in the correct passive form (be + past participle).
Use the passive when the action itself is more important than who does it: be (in the right tense) + past participle. Simple past passive: was/were + 3rd form, e.g. The creature was created.
Still unsure? Go back to Passiv (Passive Voice) in our Klasse 9 folder and practise it again.
The big question of the novel: Who is the real “monster” – Victor or his creature? Write 4–6 sentences and give reasons.
Many readers say the creature is not born evil. Victor is responsible because he makes a living being and then leaves it completely alone. The creature only becomes cruel after people reject it again and again. So you can argue that Victor's lack of responsibility is the real “monster” in the story.
Partner A argues that the creature is to blame. Partner B argues that Victor is to blame. Collect arguments for both sides, then decide together.