Frankenstein

The novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly begins with four letters from an explorer Robert Walton to his sister. He is the captain of the ship headed to the North Pole. In the first letter, he tells his sister of the plans leading up to his leave and his goal to discover a northern passage to the Pacific to find the source of the Earth’s magnetism. Walton has a of friends, and feels lonely and isolated, because he is much smarter than his crew. Walton finds a stranger is weak, and starving. The stranger spends days recovering, nursed by the crew, before he can speak. Walton and the stranger become friends, and the stranger eventually tells Walton his story. At the end of the fourth letter, Walton states that the stranger will start to narrarate the story after the fourth letter ends. If I had to write a ghost story I would not start it off with letters. To me to use letters is feeble, and I would start it off as a story on the news someone is watching or newspaper article to make it seem like my story will be interesting enough to be told worldwide.