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Frankenstein begins when a young man named Captain Walton takes a ship into the Arctic Ocean. He's hoping to make important scientific discoveries, but his ship gets stranded for a few days when a sheet of ice forms all around it. To his amazement, he and his crew see a gigantic man about eight feet tall driving a dog sled across the ice until it disappears in the distance. A little later, they see a normal-sized man on another dogsled chasing the first one. This man is almost dead from exhaustion and exposure, so they take him aboard. The man is Victor Frankenstein. Walton becomes friends with him and while Frankenstein is recovering, he tells Walton his story. Frankenstein grew up in Geneva. His father had been an important figure in the government and they were well off. He grew up with his cousin Elizabeth, whom his parents expected him to marry eventually. He had a little brother named William and a best friend named Henry Clerval. Frankenstein goes to a famous University in Ingolstadt where he becomes very good at science. He figures out scientifically how to bring something to life, though he doesn't tell us what the secret is. He makes a creature using parts from a graveyard. On a rainy night in November, he brings it to life, but he's so horrified by it that he runs away. The next day, his friend Clerval arrives at the University to begin his studies, but Frankenstein becomes ill and Clerval spends all winter nursing him. Just as he's getting better at the beginning of spring, he gets a letter telling him that his little brother William has been murdered. Justine, a servant in his house whom everyone always liked, has been arrested because William had been carrying a locket...