Chapter 13
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Rayven Clark
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1. Who arrives at the De Lacey home in the springtime, and what is her background? How does the creature benefit from her language barrier?
Safie arrives and she is from Turkey. Her father was wrongly accused and thrown into prison. Felix teaches her French. The monster observes the reading lessons and learns faster than Safie does.
2. What sort of book does Felix use to teach Safie?
He uses Volney’s 'Ruins of Empires'.
3. What impression about mankind does the creature gain after hearing the history lessons in this book? The creature learns about the history of civilization and all the wars man has waged on one another.
4. What does the creature realize about himself when he begins to compare how humans gain power and respect to how he achieves those things? How does his new self-awareness make him feel?
The creature realizes he is the only one like himself that exists and he is monstrously ugly and utterly alone.
He asks “What am I?” and “Who am I?” He is in pain and misery.
5. What does the creature learn about family and parental relationships? How does that make him feel about himself?
He watches the de lacy family and learns about their love and compassion for one another. He longs for companionship and feels wretched.
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6. What did Felix do in Paris that resulted in his family being exiled from France and forced to live in this cottage in Germany?
They tried to help Safie's father escape.
7. How did Safie manage to avoid the fate of having to return to Arabia with her dastardly father, and instead make her way to the De Lacey cottage?
She found letters intended for her father that included the directions to Felix.
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8. After reading the books that he finds in a satchel in the forest, what comparison/contrast does the