The Creature - Original Writing

The novel Monster by Walter Dean Myers is the book I chose to read and do my essay on. The genre Walter chose for the book Monster is realistic fiction. The novel was published in 1999 which is a year after I was borning. The reason why I chose this Novel is because a teacher recommended the book to me a couple year ago but, I never got a chance to read it. I always assumed the book was good because it won three awards. The first award the book won was the National Book Award for young people’s literature. The second award the book won was the Michael L. Printz Awards. The third award the book won was called the Coretta Scott King Award Honor all in which the book won in the same year 2000. The book is told from the perspective of a young african american teenager named steve harmon. Steve lives in harlem where the story takes place. One night steve chose to hang with a bad group of friends and was in a robbery. During the robbery one of Steve’s friend kills the cashier. Now Steve is in jail and going back and forth to court hoping to be proven not guilty of felony murder. Steve and I lives are alike in many different ways although we come from different backgrounds.

In the essay, The Loss of the Creature, written by Walter Percy, he discusses multiple stories relating to an unknown “creature” in our lives. Life is about our experiences. It is important to explore the world whenever we get the opportunity, but we must look at the world through a new perspective in order to truly see it. Walter Percy indirectly tells us, the most worthwhile kinds of experiences are not the ones we plan, but the ones we don’t quite expect to happen. My mother planned a vacation for my family and I looking for that once in a lifetime experience. She decided that experience would take place in Hawaii, the Aloha State. Unfortunately, that once and a live time experience she was searching for, would not be the highlight of our vacation. It would be something simple, yet surprisingly beautiful and euphoric. It was my “true experience”, my “creature”.

In the essay, The Loss of the Creature, written by Walter Percy, he discusses multiple stories relating to an unknown “creature” in our lives. Life is about our experiences. It is important to explore the world whenever we get the opportunity, but we must look at the world through a new perspective in order to truly see it. Walter Percy indirectly tells us, the most worthwhile kinds of experiences are not the ones we plan, but the ones we don’t quite expect to happen. My mother planned a vacation for my family and I looking for that once in a lifetime experience. She decided that the experience would take place in Hawaii, the Aloha State. Unfortunately, that once and a life time experience she was searching for, would not be the highlight

She walked up the stair unhurried, her steps confident, and her hair still perfect without fault. As she reached the top of the stair there was slight hill that rose up before her, stood heavily on top was a creature that made her top lip rise in an act of disgust. It was easily 7ft tall, built similarly to a man, but its legs were thick and tough, no feet at the bottom like any person, they resembled an elephants, hard and wide, made to balance the large creature it was carrying. Its arms were disproportioned; the top of the arm was thinner than the bottom, getting wider and more engorged as it got closer to its hand. The hand looked like a swollen mess, heavy and fat with its tiny fingers poking out, similar to a plastic glove that had been blown up like a balloon. But it was its face that was the most disgusting thing to the girl. It was small and lumpy, its mouth taking up a large part of it, almost splitting the face. The mouth was long and thin, the sharp spikes of teeth had shot through its lips on multiply occasions, leaving the tough skin around its mouth shredded and scarred. And at the top of its head was its eyes, they were fish like, unblinking and dull. The creature in front of her was disgustingly

I stood as steady as a statue. A myriad of gigantic brown trees as old as Adam surrounded me. They seemed to stare at me like watchmen. I took a deep breath and my heart began to beat like a cheetah chasing its prey. Slowly, I walked into the dark forest.

Victor Frankenstein created the creature in order to further science, however the creature took on a mind of it’s own. The creature’s mind consisted of several things that had similarities to the personality of it’s creator’s mind. Victor Frankenstein left the creature to it’s own devices, which caused death and destruction. But even though they developed a hatred for each other, Victor and the creature really do not have that different personalities and character traits. Both have a deep desire for strong attachments to others, their tempers match each other when their ire rises, and they both connect deeply with nature.

People with non-normative bodies are treated differently in “The Monster” and in “The Story of My Life”. Henry Johnson loses his humanity while Helen Keller gains her humanity. Both texts show the challenges of being different. Physical appearance contributes to how others treat people and their quality of life. In “The Monster” it describes how the person’s mental capacity is equivalent to their outward appearance, while in “The Story of My Life” it describes how a person can change and overcome their disabilities and treated like abled body people.

Amongst the ideas exchanged in chapter one the idea that stood out the most was the reality that regardless of what talent you believe to have or actually contain it means nothing if you do not give everything you have to your craft. Anyone can love something but to have those feelings reciprocated changes the objective entirely. Growing up children wish to be firefighters, ballerinas, and everything in between but their wishes do not ultimately determine their futures. It has been said that a wish is an idea, and well, people carry on with many ideas, all of which don’t really amount to much without a follow through. The Creature goes on to talk about how she has been in plays and only wishes to be in plays, ignorant to the

Figure had sharp jagged teeth dripping with blood on them. The skin was pale like he had been dead for thousands of year. And the way he walked, it was like he hadn’t walked for years. Then I heard his bones cracking and john was correct he hadn’t walked for years. John was just about to leave his worst nightmare. The doors shut as fast as the lighting kept hitting the house. John turned around the person wasn’t there. John ran in the hallway to the kitchen. Out of nowhere knives where thrown at him at if they were arrows tried to kill him like it was a hunting game. The thing said “I thirst for your blood”. John Quickly hid. His family was worrying that john wasn’t back.

That day was calm and peaceful and luxuriant trees, except for the single black cloud in the middle of the open sky. I went to the back of my house to play on the swing seat for I was only 4. I saw a cute insect on the floor in the bright green lawn, so I got closer for a better look. Now days I realize it was the Alypia octomaculata, commonly known as the Eight-spotted Forester. In my small trivial mind, I have never heard of a moth and the white dots scared me. I clearly imagine those dots morphing into a human scull. Such a impossible idea could never truly exist where you’re my becomes impediment to itself and think the physical incarnation of the devil as a moth is standing before you. That moth made me scream and run to my mom for protection and ill never forget the words she told me. “Tyler, it’s a bug just squish it if you don’t like it.” This is my earliest memory I have as a kid and I will never forget it. I learn one must over come their instincts and think something truly over to realize what it truly

A six foot man created by a montage of flesh and sinew might of been the most terrifying scene that Victor Frankenstein has ever beheld. The monster which is known by many through the well known gothic classic, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, has a lot to teach us about human nature. The monster was created not as a physical representation, but rather as a deep symbol of Victor Frankenstein. The monster really just lives within Victor, and drives him to the extent of doing things that he may never of done himself. Many people can relate to this feeling of being overrun by anger, sadness, greed, etc. The monster being a symbol speaks depths about what it means to be truly human, and what it means to live motivated by impulses.

In Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein” a young man who is passionate about the sciences sets out to bring life to inanimate body parts. The monster created by this compilation is so ugly that even his creator, Victor Frankenstein, rejects him. The creation is cast-off by all of society because of his appearance which drives the monster to commit many acts of senseless violence. Society must accept responsibility for the murders because they turned what could have been a helpful member of society, for his robust size and relative immortality, into a murderer.

I looked up at the black sky. I hadn't intended to be out this late. The sun had set, and the empty road ahead had no streetlights. I knew I was in for a dark journey home. I had decided that by traveling through the forest would be the quickest way home. Minutes passed, yet it seemed like hours and days. The farther I traveled into the forest, the darker it seemed to get. I was very had to even take a breath due to the stifling air. The only sound familiar to me was the quickening beat of my own heart, which felt as though it was about to come through my chest. I began to whistled to take my mind off the eerie noises I was hearing. In this kind of darkness I was in, it was hard for me to believe that I could be

Monsters run free in epic poems of centuries far past; horrific, villainous creatures of fantasy who illustrate all that is bad in the world and stand for the tribulations the epic hero much overcome. The Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is no different. Some are born of, and in turn give birth to legends, such as the fire-breathing dragon, while others are tied to the bible. In studies, Beowulf's monsters are explained and will continue to be analyzed as symbolic of countless different ideas. In relation to each other and the epic's hero, the monsters of Beowulf represent the ever-present flaws of humanity and the monstrous feelings or behaviors that over take the mind in a moment of weakness, leading to eventual downfall.

A peculiar feature of the Creature that Shelley uses to highlight his disconnection from society is his diction. Specifically, the Creature through his word choice displays a heightened sense of curiosity and observation. His word choice reflects his isolation from society because he describes everything with a sense of awe as he undergoes a process of discovery while attempting to understand human life. Unlike others who have grown up being constantly shaped and pressured by society, the Creature is an outsider who has to ponder about every single aspect of society in order to fully comprehend the world he has been suddenly thrown into and then exiled. For example, as the Creature is talking to Victor, he says, “A great fall of snow had taken