The Yellow-Eyed Monster by Montel

The Yellow-Eyed Monster by Montel - July 2013 Scholarship Essay

I would have to say the best book I've ever read was Frankenstein. The top reason was because I finally had gotten to see really what the fuss was about. Now, this wasn't in middle school or elementary school. This was only a year ago when I was a college sophomore. At first, I was like everyone else who had never read the book: I originally thought Frankenstein was the green-skinned, bolts in neck, bowl haircut, stiff-walking zombie we know from the media. I never thought the actual story was so inverse to what popular culture made it out to be. Another reason I liked the story was because everything was so tense and dramatic that you became more scared of Frankenstein's, the doctor in the story, moves rather than the creature's moves. To top it off, the storyline itself wasn't based on a perspective of a person at real time. The story progressed through letters sent from a man to his own sister. The interesting thing about it is that the man, Walton, is a captain of a ship and in all reality you'd never think the doctor, Frankenstein, and him would ever meet. Lastly, a great reason I like this novel was because I could personally associate myself with the Creature, as he was called. I could feel the pain he felt, the pain of loneliness and not being able to be one with society. He was saddened and hurt throughout the story and the only goal he truly had after a while was to love someone who would return those feelings. That one goal he had, that one motivation is something the world itself strives to have, so in a sense, Mary Shelley was speaking for the planet as well as the Creature who disappeared into the world, alone and tranquil.