EN 2010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-5: Dog Sled, Swiss Alps, Albertus Magnus
Document Summary
Signed by mary shelley, but is supposedly written by her husband, percy. Novel begins during a summer vacation at the swiss alps. The rainy weather and nights spent reading german ghost stories inspired mary shelley to write a ghost story herself. Explorer robert walton writing to his sister margaret saville. Captain of the ship heading to a dangerous journey to the north pole. Purpose is to see new places and to boldly go where no man has gone before. Walton is upset because he has no friends. Men on the ship do not understand him because of the differences between them. The ship sets sail and walton believes that everything is going according to plan. The ship is stuck in sheets of ice in the ocean. The crew sees a man on a dog sled off in the distance. The ice melts off and releases the ship, but the crew decides to continue their journey in the morning.
