The Imaginary Friend

This week I want to step out of the boundary of sports and talk about something different. We started reading Frankenstein this week. What I have grasped so far after 13 chapters is Victor's fascination with the creation of life. After the death of his mother, he becomes very distraught and lonely. So after years of work, he finally creates Frankenstein or Pedro, who my AP English class likes to call him. He does this to combat his loneliness and wants someone who will have similar interests as him. Now when we were all kids, we had "imaginary friends" or liked to pretend we were doing something with toys or whatever. We all had a wild imagination when we were young. Victor turned his crazy fascination into a reality by creating Frankenstein. But why did we as kids have imaginary friends or pretend to be doing a lot of things that weren't necessarily realistic? Is it just because we are in the kid state and our logic wasn't sound or is it deeper than that? From my own instances, I would pretend to be doing things when I was bored or didn't have anything to do. So Victor's reasoning can be connected the same way. He was lonely and we as kids were bored. But as kids we also pretended to do things with our imaginary friends that appealed to us. We created these "characters" to like what we liked to do. Like us, Victor had the same idea because he was out on the seas with other people who didn't necessarily have the same interests as he did. The characters were a part of us until we let them go and Victor was the same way because at some points he felt he wasn't responsible for Frankenstein even though he created it.