What important component is missing from the introductory paragraph of an interpretive essay shown below? Cold, desolate, empty. The arctic region is the setting for parts of Mary Shelley’s novel of creation and destruction, Frankenstein. In the novel, Victor Frankenstein brings to life a hideous creature he created. After a number of tragedies caused by the monster, he eventually flees to the Arctic. Why does Shelly use the Arctic as the setting for part of the novel? What does it mean? The first paragraph will introduce some possible reasons.
A) thesis statement
B) hook to capture the readers attention
C) full summary of the novel
D) textual evidence