Frankenstein

      Mary Shelley's opening to Frankenstien had contained four letters written by Robert Walton to his sister, Margaret Sauville. In his letters to his sister, Robert Walton had been going on a voyage to the Arctic Circle to find magnetism, and he was informing his sister about how along his journey he encountered a man on the ice. He then begins to describe the man and his interests in him. As the story progresses he tells about how the stranger is going to tell him about his journey through life, which Mary Shelley then begins to write about in Chapter one. Mary Shelley had used the letters as a prologue to introduce the stranger and she then went on to tell the story from his perspective throughout the Chapters, as if the stranger were retelling it to Walton. If I had to write a ghost story I would begin it by writing an excerpt from one of the scenes that will be encountered later on in the story. I would then end the excerpt and by doing this, I would have gave the readers a sneak peak as to what will happen in the story which would make them want to continue reading. This would create a mysterious feeling and it would make the story more interesting.