away from it. The creature is never given the chance to show them that he is good and only wants to be friends. He realizes, after looking at himself, his physical grotesqueness, an aspect of his persona that blinds society to his initially gentle, kind nature. He longs to be accepted by humans and hopes to live among them, but he is repeatedly beaten and chased away because of the way he looks.
             Throughout the story, there are examples of society's cruelty towards him. The cruelty in humans is shown when he was attacked after saving a human girl who had fallen into a river. After risking his own life to save the girl, he was shot at by a man with a gun. 'This was then the reward of my benevol
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