Sight Ruins the Listening
He pulls a drowning girl from the water and is shot for it. Later a child in the woods is named Frankenstein, which is to say: enemy. The war he declares is not a first instinct. It is a conclusion after benevolence has been invoiced as attack.
Key Insight
Repeated punishment for help is how a person learns that help is not a language anyone will answer. After that, harm starts to look like the only speech that produces a reply. The monster is not the drowning rescue. The monster is the gun that followed it.
“This was then the reward of my benevolence! I had saved a human being from destruction, and as a recompense I now writhed under the miserable pain of a wound which shattered the flesh and bone.”Full analysis
