Frankenstein, A Creature of Society. When Cindy Porter was twenty five, a single mother, and living in the projects of Philadelphia she wrote a novel. Her novel was a story about a teenage boy who had grown up in poverty. The boy's daily confrontations with the hardships of his own life proved him to be incapable of dealing with such matters as he slipped into destructive patterns at school, home, and on the streets. From …showed first 75 words of 1903 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1903 total…ry's dream was her inspiration for her novel Frankenstein, but the true merit of the story is found not in the plot, but in the themes she was able to incorporate. She let her life influence her writing. Mary's past, present, and fears of the future are all illustrated graphically in Frankenstein. The personal touch helps to give Mary depth as a young writer and surely is a sizable reason for the novel's success (Cazacu 24).