Month: October 2021

Reading and Writing (Activity VI)

Although I haven’t yet read Frankenstein, much less seen the movie, I had a feeling it was the typical “gothic” novel. When I say “typical gothic”, I’m referring to the fact that we always end up reflecting on ourselves and on society. I remember reading The Hunchback Of Notre Dame when I was maybe in 7th grade. The emotions I felt reading it were extremely intense. It made me reflect on how we as a society treat those who are less fortunate than us, kind of like in Frankenstein. When we see homeless people on the street, it always brings up a sense of sadness and gratefulness. We feel sad that we can’t do much to help them and grateful for what we have. For some reason, we decide to treat them as less than solely because they don’t have what we have. It’s completely wrong to do this, because we are all the same. I feel like Victor was afraid of his creature because of how ugly it was, but didn’t want to destroy it for this very reason; because it was his creature. Frankenstein hates Victor because Victor doesn’t treat him like his creature. Most people are a mix of both Victor and the creature. They try to escape their fears and not face them, but they also hate the fact that they do those things.

Reading and Writing Activity IV

Most young people these days (coming from a young person) get their information from social media, such as Instagram and Twitter (especially Twitter). Most of these sources are reliable, as they quote from other sources which we can trust, such as CNN or The New York Times. I think memes can be reliable in most cases. For example, when the whole “WWIII” thing started circling around the internet, I had only found out because of a meme I saw on Twitter. People are very quick to get things trending on the internet. Most, if not all of my friends, get their information from social media as well, and we consider ourselves pretty aware of what happens around the world. I also get some of my information from watching the news in the mornings with my parents before school, but mostly from social media and memes.