Frankenstein

In my opinion, the intro to the novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was odd. Although it was helpful. Shelley opens up the novel with four letters. The letters talk about a character called Robert Walton who is the captain of a ship. He then meets a stranger and admires the stranger's passion and determination of reaching a goal he has set, even though he looked very sick and weak while traveling through the Arctic. If I were to start a ghost story, I would open the story up by describing a scene in the story that is occurring in the middle of the story. This would give the reader a sense of what is going on at that point of the story. I would also have the main character speaking, which would have the story in first person. I would not however have all the characters introduced right at the beginning of the story. I do not believe that is a good method to use when writing an opening to a story. I would have each character introduced through out the story in various parts of it. Introducing each character at a different point in the story would all lead up to the opening of the story where the main character is speaking during a scene in the middle of the story.