Letter One In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Letter one in the story of Frankenstein, is mainly about Robert Walton writing to his sister Margaret Saville. Robert has a passion for traveling on sea, turns out that he is sailing to the North Pole. He writes to his sister explaining his preparations for his new journey, and of his desire to accomplish his goals. Robert’s most favorable period is travelling in Russia, he expresses how, “They fly quickly over the snow in their sledges; the motion is pleasant, and, in my opinion, far more agreeable than that of an English stagecoach” (Walton 3). Moreover, letter two is when Robert commits his thoughts and feelings in the letter for Margaret. Robert expressed how he is not completely satisfied, “You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but
I bitterly feel the want of a friend” (Walton 3). To elucidate, Robert communicates that he feels alone, he is in need of a friend who will sympathize with him. Summarily, in letter three Walton tells his sister that he has already set sail, and that he is convinced that he will soon fulfill his goals. Furthermore on to letter four, while they’re journey to the North Pole, the ship eventually comes across some giant sheets of ice. The men later noticed something strange, “It was, in fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, Which had drifted towards us in the night on a large fragment of ice. Only one dog remained alive: but there was a human being within it...” (Walton 6). To explain, Robert and his crew noticed that the man on a sledge was weak, and hungry. They decided to help him, and later Robert and the stranger became friends. Which is all that Walton ever hoped for.