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Frankenstein Chapter 2, Excerpt 2
By Mary Shelley

Victor Frankenstein continues recounting the influences that lead to his great experiment:

An accident again changed the current of my ideas. When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm. It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens. I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight. As I stood at the door, on a sudden I beheld a stream of fire issue from an old and beautiful oak which stood about twenty yards from our house; and so soon as the dazzling light vanished, the oak had disappeared, and nothing remained but a blasted stump. When we visited it the next morning, we found the tree shattered in a singular manner. It was not splintered by the shock, but entirely reduced to thin ribbons of wood. I never beheld anything so utterly destroyed.

Which character has the author decided to focus on for the telling of this story?

A. The storm
B. Belrive
C. Victor
D. The house

Answer 1

C. Victor was the main focus

Answer 2

C. Victor

Step-by-step explanation:

In these lines, we see that the author has chosen to focus mostly on Victor, as it is Victor who is telling us about his experiences as a child. We learn that one of the reasons why Victor became fascinated with the idea of reanimation through electricity was because he was extremely amazed at the power of thunder when he witnessed a storm when he was fifteen years old.