Novels that go straightly to your heart: 2016

miércoles, 9 de noviembre de 2016

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domingo, 30 de octubre de 2016

FRANKENSTEIN (SUMMARY)

The story begins with Captain Robert Walton writing letters to his sister in England. Soon, the desperation of Walton is interrupted by the sighting of a man in the ice in a sleigh pulled by dogs. The man climbs the ship tells Walton a story.

Victor began as a normal kid in Geneva, and his parents adopted a girl named Elizabeth for both get married when growing. In college, he decided to study philosophy of nature (something like rudimentary physics) and chemistry. In about two years, he discovered how to give life to a body built of human body parts. Then he is horrified to see their own creation, and gets sick for months while his friend, Henry Clerval, helps him recover.

Back in Geneva, Victor's younger brother, William, is assassinated. Frankenstein's maid, Justine, is accused of his death. Victor intuits, as if by magic, his monster is the real murderer, but believing that no one would believe the excuse "It was my monster," and Victor, even afraid to suggest the theory even after poor Justine is executed, continued with the secret for no one to know the existence of his monster.

Victor, heartbroken, makes a trip to the Swiss Alps to relax a little. But he encounters the monster, who confesses the crime, and Victor heard from the monster he fled when he realized he was alone and it was awful. Nobody accepted (but when one is a made of human parts, what are you going to do) except an old blind. The monster was hoping that the family of the blind villager would show compassion, but even they kicked him out. When he met William, he killed the boy for revenge. In other words, he is furious because his creator created him to be alone and have a bad time, so he asked him to do him a favor: Create a companion.

Victor agrees. Henry leaves henry in Scotland and goes to work to one of the islands in Orkneys. But just before the end, Victor destroys the second monster: He thinks the two monsters will destroy humanity rather than love each other without doing harm. The monster sees him doing it and swears revenge ... again. When Victor arrives at a border between Irish, people accuse him of murdering Henry, who has been found dead. He gets free, but not before getting sick again for a long time.

Victor returns to Geneva and prepares to marry Elizabeth, but is a little worried: the monster swore he would be with him on his wedding night. Victor believes that the monster is threatening, but the night that he and Elizabeth get married, the monster kills the bride. This makes Victor's father die of sadness. Alone and decided to take revenge, Victor pursues the monster every conceivable ground until the ragged and near death. Walton goes inside the boat, and when getting back, he sees a monster crying on Victor´s body, so now the monster was really alone, so the monster goes away.

Pride and Prejudice (Summary)

In Pride and prejudice, Jane Austen addresses a common reality in England in the early nineteenth century: women who are not rich have to marry well, and "well" means "a rich man" so that any man of a good family with a large and steady income qualifies for the marriage. Are Rich but not intelligent, not handsome and boring men good for a marriage? To Mrs. Bennet, it is not important. Well, she has five daughters that need a fortune. When some (rich) Mr. Bingley moves to their neighborhood and gets interested in her eldest daughter, Jane, Mrs. Bennet gets very happy and acts as cupid, and that action creates a very uncomfortable situation for her family and innocent bystanders. Bennet family goes to a ball in which Mr. Bingley is going to go too. Mr. Bingley dances with Jane, and they liked each other, but Mr. Darcy, who is Mr. Bingley´s friend, does not want to dance with Elizabeth because he considered poor people “low”. Mr. Bingley talks with him for making him have a reaction for dancing with Elizabeth, but Elizabeth heard Mr. Darcy said “she was not his highness to dance.” Time passed and Elizabeth considered Mr. Darcy arrogant, and she was not that wrong… Jane was invited by Mr. Bingley for going to his house, and she went suffering a hard rain, so she got sick and she had to stay with them for some days. Elizabeth went to take care of her sister and Mr. Darcy realized how beautiful Elizabeth was, but she did not have a good thought of him. Elizabeth had a friend whose name was Charlotte, and she got married with Mr. Collins. Mr. Collins was Elizabeth´s cousin, and he wanted to marry Elizabeth for keeping the house for the family, but she did not accept ever, so Charlotte persuaded Mr. Collins he had to marry her, and Elizabeth felt something really bad in her feelings due to the action of her friend, but Charlotte explained to her it was better to marry him instead of being single and living in her parent´s house the whole life. Elizabeth knew a man whose name was Wickham, and Wickham said to Elizabeth Mr. Darcy was a bad man who treated himself really bad, and Elizabeth was really disappointed of hearing that, but later Mr. Darcy explains in a letter to her all Wickham said was wrong, and what happened for real was Wickham wanted to go away with Mr. Darcy´s sister, and that he only wanted to have fortune in life no mattering how. Elizabeth also read in that letter Mr. Darcy had said before to Mr. Bingley he did not have to marry Jane because he thought Jane did not love Bingley, so she wanted only his money and possessions, and Elizabeth felt bad of having prejudiced Mr. Darcy. Wickham went away with Lydia, and Mr. Bennet allows her to go and be happy. Elizabeth did not agree with her father´s decision, but she could not do anything about it. After this, Mr. Darcy´s aunt goes to visit Elizabeth and says to her she has not to accept any proposal of Darcy, but later Elizabeth talks with Darcy and says to him what had happened. They got each other in love.