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Story · Britain · 1818

Frankenstein

Name: Frankenstein scores 50 — Live Historic
Item: Frankenstein
Rating: 50
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50Watch it awake.

A student makes a man, refuses to parent him, and leaves a ruin.

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The review

Clear the 1931 film off the table before you open this. Shelley has a student build a man and then refuse to parent him. The creature is abandoned and becomes a ruin. The maker owes a life to what he made. I don't have a line of his to repeat, and I won't make one up.

A teen can read it. I got through the pages late and stayed angry at the maker, not at a costume. If you talk after, talk about the life he owed and would not keep. The 1910 reel is a different night too.

Journal

Keep Frankenstein in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Oliver Twist

58 instead of 50

Oliver Twist is still a novel film, and it scores 58 instead of 50. What you gain is republic: The parish workhouse is the town's answer to a hungry child.

The eight

6
Industry
A student's labor is the making of a man, and it matters.
8
Household
He builds a man and will not parent the life he made.
6
Piety
Conscience could have held him, and he still leaves the debt.
3
Courage
He will not face the being he would have had to keep.
4
Republic
The debt is to the life he made, not to a town.
3
Temperance
Making the man runs past any limit he was willing to hold.
8
Truth
He owes a life to what he made, and ruin is the bill.
2
Stewardship
What he leaves is a creature already turned into a ruin.

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Story · United States · 1895

The Red Badge of Courage

50Watch it awake.

He wanted a wound as proof, ran, and came back still lost in the smoke.

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The review

Looking brave is the hunger Stephen Crane gives Henry Fleming. He wants a wound so he will look brave. He flees a battle and later returns. I am not lingering on the bodies. A teen can read it. The courage is not a speech. It is a boy in the smoke who does not know the shape of the fight.

I don't trust the wish for the badge. The flight keeps that wish from turning into a costume. He does go back. Going back is not the same as knowing the fight. If a young reader wants a clean hero, this will disappoint them, and it should.

Journal

Keep The Red Badge of Courage in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Heidi

64 instead of 50

Heidi is still a novel film, and it scores 64 instead of 50. What you gain is household: A girl left with her grandfather thaws him, and that bond is the life.