Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The "strange accident" that occurs in Letter IV is the first glimpse of the monster. Only eight pages in! If I wasn't reading carefully and if Mr. Costello hadn't pointed it out too, I would have never noticed. The boat is enclosed in ice pretty much all the way around to the point where the boat cannot go anywhere. Also, there is a thick fog and nothing can be seen outside of the boat. When the fog clears, the men see what is described as, "...a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs...a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature..." (Shelley 8). Upon further reading, another sledge similar to the first one is sighted only this one seems to be a lot worse off than the first. This one is on a floating piece of ice with only one dog left and a man who is nearly frozen and severely emaciated. The monster seems intelligent because he is moving much faster and isn't in as bad of shape as the stranger. I also believe this could be the monster because the author says it appeared like a man, not that it was a man. It appeared gigantic and to be fleeing from something or someone.
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