I now understand why only the creation is Halloween Themed (Ch 9-12)

Frankenstein
Mary Shelley

The creature lives!!!! Not only does he live, but he has matured into a functioning human being, with similar mental capacity to Victor himself. Victor, of course, did not originally assume this. Upon seeing the creature in the mountains, he threatens him and even assaults him. The creature calms Victor down and begins to tell him all about the story of his evolution, and so we enter another fame story. So the creature tells all about his early weeks of existence. His actions resembled a toddler's: he learned pain from stimuli, he learned what to do to feel good, and what not to do to avoid anger. His true triumph was learning the language, which he grasped from watching a family through a crack in the wall (totally unrealistic by the way). After watching this family, he saw their sadness and could understand where it came from: poverty. He recognized love within the family, but saw a constant sense of despair because of the lack of funds possessed by the family. Nevertheless, the creature desperately wanted to be liked by humans, especially this family. He planned to one day confront them, asking for friendship. His logic is good enough to assume that "they would be disgusted, until, by my gentle demeanour and conciliating words, I should first win their favour, and afterwards their love" (Shelley 81). It's a lofty goal for a monster, but he seems confident in the progress he has made in becoming a regular human.