Mary Shelly "Frankenstein"
then left the residence permanently. The creature, in a fit of rage, burned the cottage and left.
In its travels some time later, the monster saw a young girl tumble into a stream and rescued her from
drowning. A man, seeing it with the child in its arms, pursued it and fired a gun, wounding it. Traveling
to Geneva, it met a little boy -- Victor's brother William - in the woods outside the town of Plainpalais.
The monster hoped the boy was too young to fear deformity, but upon its approach, William cried out,
threatening the monster with the weight of his family - the Frankensteins. The creature grabbed the
boy by the throat to silence him, and strangled him. It is unclear from the text whether this was an
accident on the monster's part or a deliberate murder, but in either case, the monster took this as its
first act of vengeance against its creator