The Story
Gaston Leroux
I liked it because the plot had a good tempo
Read Death
gruesome
subjects
guest
masquerade
weird and wild
creepy
frolicking
in full swing
a corpse
freaks everybody out
seized
heading
rage
lavish
decay
causing great horror
a person who stays at or goes to a hotel, etc.
a party of people waering masks and customes
rare and disorderly
causing a creepy feeling of the skin
fun
in progress
a dead body
scares everybody
to take hold
Prospero believes he can avoid death
Means mortality
The mask tried to represent attempts to avoid death
vault
angry fury
using or giving in great amounts
to become descomposed
The ending
The story ends when Erick tells to Christine go with Raoul, because he knows that they are in love.
The end that i imagined was Christine says to Raoul that she is in love with Erick, and they lived a life of full.
Topics to discuss
Match the famous “monsters” with their pictures. One of them really existed. Which one?
1.C. The Monster of Dr. Frankenstein:He was
created by a scientist from pieces of dead
bodies. At first, he was good and only wanted
to love and help others. However, his horrible
appearance frightened people and they treated
him badly. In the end, he became bad.
2.A. The Elephant Man:When he was born, he
was normal. But after he became ill at five, his
body began to change into a horrible shape.
He became an attraction in travelling shows.
Sometimes he was treated very badly.
Fortunately, a doctor began to take care of
him. Later in life he became a celebrity. He was
even friends with Queen Victoria.
3.B. Quasimodo:He was born deformed
and ugly. He was abandoned on the steps of
a great church. People always made fun of
him. He later fell in love with a beautiful
young woman. She loved another who was
obviously, very handsome. But Quasimodo
helped her anyways.
