When I attended the Franken Read event, I was only able to stay for the first session but I learned quite a bit. I actually didn’t know the origins of Frankenstein, I always thought that it was a popular folklore made up long ago. I also originally thought that the monster died to flames after being chased out of the village that he terrorized, and that the doctor was chased out as well but lived. Contrary to what I thought the monster lived; in fact he had a family! That was the biggest surprise to me. Another surprise regarding the story’s origin was that a woman was the author and she came up with the idea over a scary story contest with her friends. I found that to be mind boggling. What I also didn’t know was that the story revolved around Romanticism, which isn’t exactly what it sounds like. As I’ve come to find out, Romanticism isn’t exactly about love; rather it’s about inspiration, subjectivity, and the focus on oneself. This is just a little of what I learned while attending the first session, it’s a shame that I couldn’t attend more of them, but I’ll look into the story a bit more on my own time.