Petersburg, Russia. He waits for someone to take him to the port of Archangel, where he will hire some Russians to go by boat to the North Pole. Things change and the boat gets stuck in the impassable ice which unfortunately is hundreds of miles from land. In his time of waiting, he writes letters to his sister in England and tells her he is looking for company. in the moment of waiting he meets the monster, thus starting the fun part of Frankenstein." I feel my heart burning with an enthusiasm that lifts me to heaven, because nothing helps to calm the mind as much as a firm purpose - a point on to which the soul can fix its intellectual eye." Letter 1 He made this story with the structure of a flashback to make it more interesting. It impacts this story by giving the monster human emotions. Thus forever changing how we truly see Frankenstein and his ilk