Post 8

When the monster described what he felt when he first heard the birds singing, I found him much more likable, especially when he recalls trying to make sound himself and being scared of the sounds he made. It made him feel much more pitiable and gave him a more sensitive side that we really hadn't seen prior to that. Most of the descriptions of those first few days as he discovered the world put me in mind of a naive child rather than of the monster that he came across as throughout most of the story up to now. It really made me pity him, though, more than anything else, especially when he reached into the fire.

One of the things that made him a bit less likable was the fact that he did essentially run the older man out of his house and the fact that he spied on the family for so long. Even so, though these things weren't wonderful actions, I still pitied him and could understand why he did those things. He had been living on his own up until then and didn't really understand people. In some ways, the fact that he was so inept with what he was doing around people made him even more pitiable. Overall, I think this section made him appeal more to me rather than make him less likable.