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Which parts of this excerpt from Frankenstein show that the creature is innocent and helpless like a newborn child when it first appears in the novel?

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (excerpt)
A strange multiplicity of sensations seized me, and I saw, felt, heard, and smelt, at the same time; and it was, indeed, a long time before I learned to distinguish between the operations of my various senses. By degrees, I remember, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes. Before I had quitted your apartment, on a sensation of cold, I had covered myself with some clothes; but these were insufficient to secure me from the dews of night. I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch; I knew, and could distinguish, nothing; but, feeling pain invade me on all sides, I sat down and wept. Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.

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the answer is the second choice 
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The part of the excerpt that clearly indicates the creature was innocent and helpless like a newborn child when it first appear in the novel is the following sentences: "I was a poor, helpless, miserable wretch". Not only the characteristic of being helpless is explicitly mentioned in this section, but the other characteristics also describe the creature as powerless and harmless.

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