tore me from his father, to whose knees I clung; and struck me violently with a stick. I could have torn him limb from limb, as the lion rends the antelope. But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained. I saw him point of repeating his blow, when I overcame by pain and anguish, I quitted the cottage, and in the general tumult escaped unperceived to my hovel." (p.136) This caused much pain for the monster because the family he had admired for so long due to their strong sense of love and values that seemed to fill their house with warmth and comfort which wasn't present when he asked for their friendship. He was almost certain that the family would see past his hideous exterior to see what they had helped form because he had paid close attention to what the family placed as values to help form his loving and caring personality. Since no one offered him the slightest amount of companionship he learned about the poverty that is experienced when acceptance, love and compassion isn't present in someone's relationships.
             In addition to the Delacey family rejecting the monster, the monster also was rejected by a complete stranger after helping him out. After the first incident of rejection the monster had seen a little girl drowning and set out to give her a helping hand. With something we'd see has heroic, his reward was definitely not something heroic for the heroes of today. "...When suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream. I rushed from my hiding place and with extreme labour, from the force of the current, saved her and dragged her to shore. She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means to restore animation, when suddenly I was interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had painfully fled. On seeing me he wood. I followed speedily, I hardly knew why; but when the man saw me draw near, he aimed a gun, ...