Comparing Momo And The Missouri Monster

The Creature ran away and tried to turn to other people. It did not want anything bad but simply attention and support. Nevertheless, his appearance made people feel disgust and everybody tried to hurt him. The Creature could not understand why it was treated so cruelly and suffered so much. It was completely isolated and nobody cared for this living being who wanted to be loved so desperately! Such

Therefore, when the monster was ‘born' it did not know the meaning of love; his creator fled from him, leaving him alone in the world. When he comes upon the cottage and the family residing there he glimpses his first exposure to love.

After Victor’s abandonment, the creature left Victor’s home and wandered into the woods. Initially, every encounter with humanity brought the creature pain and suffering as they were instantly terrified upon seeing the creature's horrifying appearance and treated him like the monster he appeared to be. Eventually, the creature came across a hovel in the woods that was within close proximity to a cottage where a family lived. The monster grew very affectionate toward his "protectors," emphasizing that beings are born to love, not hate.

In this section of the reading, the creature’s habits really stood out to me. I couldn’t help but see a more softer and human like side to the monster. When the creature is observing his neighbors he comes to notice that they are unhappy and he is “deeply affected” by this. When the creature learns that poverty is causing their unhappiness he also comes to the realization that when he has stolen their food he causes them great pain and suffering. So the creature “abstained” and swore to not steal anymore. So not only is this supposedly monsterish creature feeling sorrow and remorse for others pain, but he also chooses to end his role in causing this pain. These kind of emotions and actions that the creature is conducting are really interesting.

Teams are seeded and therefore labelled for this week’s Summit League Championships in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The Mastodons “earned” the 6th seed in an 8-team tournament after defeating Western Illinois in overtime, 96-92.

(Shelly 136). Because of this, the monster now hates the world and

“When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, the, a monster, a blot upon the earth from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?” (13.105). In the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and the film Edward Scissorhands directed by Tim Burton, the theme of alienation is explored because the creature and Edward are unable to evolve into ordinary members of society due to long periods of isolation and monstrous characteristics. Firstly, The isolation that both the creature and Edward experience from being alienated by their creators leaves them both oblivious when trying to abide by the rules of society.

The creature is created from as it is implied, from scratch and is as a new human that is still innocent, able to choose its own path and be either good or evil depending on how it is taught and what it sees. The creature’s first impression of human nature is its own creator abandoning it. This, among other disappointing acts of humans such as when he is prejudiced and hated for only by the appearance of his face, ruins the monster’s

“Look then, if you dare, at South Central through the eyes of one of its most notorious Ghetto Stars and the architect of its most ghastly gang army- the Crips” (Scott 1993:xv). Sanyika Shakura, birth name Kody Scott, explains to his readers the violence, attitudes, and brutality he experienced first hand in the 1980s when he joined a gang called The Crips at age eleven. According to Kontos and Brotherton (2008), writers of The Encyclopedia of Gangs, define the name Crip as “the combination of the word crib and the acronym R.I.P. that denotes the intergenerational nature of the gang and membership from birth to death (Sloan, 2005)” (p. 43-44). Shakura, referred to as Scott throughout this piece, walks us

demon. Through these events, Shelley reveals that a parent’s neglect can lead to hostility and

When he was first “created”, the monster had nothing, no memories, no family, no one to talk to. He decided to go out in the world and try and learn what he could, by seeking knowledge. What he found was that his very being was seen as a mistake to those who crossed paths with him. He learned the truth and how he was different. This lead to sadness and a feeling of being alone in the creature that lead to him killing out of anger, confusion, or just blind rage. Either way, the monster’s pursuit for knowledge ended in destruction and danger for himself, and those around

in his ignorance, creates the monster, and again later on, when the monster kills his

Missouri is a pretty big hunting state, having our own national forest and several plots of land dedicated to just hunting is also pretty nice. Since we have so much forestry, why don’t I teach you a little bit about the wild animals that live in these deep valleys and cool springs, some of these you might not see every day.

In comparing the monster to a baby girl, one’s compassion naturally is for the innocent child. However, Shelley’s creature was very much like a child, a blank canvas either nurtured or left to the wilds of nature. Is it science and the desire of mankind to control nature that is the driving factor?

Everything is new to the monster at this point; even blinking is new, which is something that is connected with a new-born baby. " …by opening my eyes…the light poured in upon me again", and the monster still has no real sense of being "who was I? What was I?"