Question

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. What does the author do for the reader in this passage

Answer 1

What does the author do for the reader in this passage?

Tell a story about the future

Bring in several new characters

Tell a story about the past

Create an unexpected twist

Answer:

Tell a story about the past

Step-by-step explanation:

According to the excerpt from Frankenstein Chapter 2, Excerpt 2 by Mary Shelley, the narrator, Mr. Frankenstein recounts what influenced his great experiment about witnessing a terrible thunderstorm when he was fifteen years old and how devastating it was to everything it touched.

What the author does for the reader in this passage is to tell a story about the past, as he recounts his thunderstorm experience when he was younger.