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Walton’s letters to his sister form a frame around the main narrative, Victor Frankenstein’s tragic story. Walton captains a North Pole–bound ship that gets trapped between sheets of ice. While waiting for the ice to thaw, he and his crew pick up Victor, weak and emaciated from his long chase after the monster. Victor recovers somewhat, tells Walton the story of his life, and then dies. Walton laments the death of a man with whom he felt a strong, meaningful friendship beginning to form.
Walton functions as the conduit through which the reader hears the story of Victor and his monster. However, he also plays a role that parallels Victor’s in many ways. Like Victor, Walton is an explorer, chasing after that “country of eternal light”—unpossessed knowledge. Victor’s influence on him is paradoxical: one moment he exhorts Walton’s almost-mutinous men to stay the path courageously, regardless of danger; the next, he serves as an abject example of the dangers of heedless scientific ambition. In his ultimate decision to terminate his treacherous pursuit, Walton serves as a foil (someone whose traits or actions contrast with, and thereby highlight, those of another character) to Victor, either not obsessive enough to risk almost-certain death or not courageous enough to allow his passion to drive him.
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D it does bring a sense of duty to mind
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1. many
2. most
3. because he hadn't set the alarm
4. rousing
5. many
6. that we planned
(Hello again, and I'm not 100% sure on adverb clauses, but I hope I got these right!)
1. Tell them what's going to happen in the future, basic step-by-step instructions. For example, tell them to do good in Science, so they can get Earth Science next year.
2. Make a deal with them. For example, be like if you get your work done faster, then we will play a game at the end.
3. I think the most important thing for a teacher to do is to make their fun, so the students want to learn more, and in a fun way.
4. Teachers can set high expectations, this pushes students to do better, and actually feel like they can do it or make it.
5. If a teacher has a classroom routine, that makes it even easier, since the students already know what to do, then they will just get it done with.
