Choose one of the following topics and write an essay of 200 words. 1. Where does the crisis that changes Aronnax's evaluation of Captian Nemo occur?
Describe the event(s) that led up to it.

2. How did Captain Nemo change through the course of the novel?

3. Take an example of a static character, Conseil, and explain why you think he did not change.

4. Take the last paragraph of the novel and discuss it in Christian terms.

5. Read Luke 18:10-14 for examples of a static character (a character who does not change during the course of the story) and a dynamic character (a character that does change throughout the course of the story). Explain which character is static and why, and which character is dynamic and why.

6. You have been taking notes on characters in the novel. Write a short essay sketching the character of Captain Nemo and one other character.

Hint: Discuss Captain Nemo's physical attributes, outlook on life, education, manners, and so on. Then compare Captain Nemo and the other character you choose.

Which two parts of this excerpt from mary shelley’s frankenstein reveals information about the setting? (it was on a dreary night of november that i beheld the accomplishment of my toils.) with an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, (i collected the instruments of life around me, that i might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. it was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out) when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, i saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs. (how can i describe my emotions at this catastrophe), or how delineate the wretch whom with such infinite pains and care i had endeavored to form? his limbs were in proportion, and i had selected his features as beautiful. beautiful! great god! (his yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; ) but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same color as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shriveled complexion and straight black lips.