We've Created a Monster
"Look I don't want to be a party pooper but can we please stop watching the races and do some actual work please?" Kurt pleaded. "Before the Professor or someone else walks in and grounds us for a million years?"
"He has a point," John turned off the television. "Just to play it safe. Besides we didn't win anything and the soap doesn't come on for another half hour."
"Kurt is there any book that you do hate?" Tabitha asked. "Just asking."
"Well now that you mention it I can't stand Mary Shelly's Frankenstein," Kurt remarked.
"Now what's wrong with Frankenstein?" Rogue asked.
"What's wrong with it?" Kurt looked at her. "That book is so confusing! It has too many narrators for one thing."
"Well it was supposed to show the story from multiple perspectives," Rogue said.
"More like multiple confusion for everyone," Kurt grumbled.
"Its about the pursuit of dangerous knowledge that leads to destruction," Rogue said.
"Really?" Tabitha blinked. "I thought its main lesson was how twisted society is, that it harms anyone who's different than everyone else."
"Well it was a good movie anyway," Jamie shrugged. "Frankenstein is a cool monster."
"Frankenstein's the name of the scientist! Not the monster dork!" Ray rolled his eyes.
"Oh the Pikachu is calling me a dork," Jamie mocked. "That really hurts!"
"Would you like me to recreate the scene where the monster gets zapped by electricity?" Ray snapped at him.
"You do that and I'll show you why the monster's afraid of fire!" Amara stood up for Jamie.
"Well what I didn't get is why Frankenstein gets so repulsed by the monster in the first place!" Kurt said. "I mean he did sew him together from dead body parts dug up from the graveyard! What did he expect it would look like? A Calvin Klein model?"
"So the main lesson you got from this story is that mad scientists should have low expectations from their creations?" John asked.
"Yeah or at least if they're gonna be perfectionists they should at least find better materials to work with!" Kurt told him.
"Well it's not like he could go down to the local Wal-Mart and get some choice organs or anything," Ray said.
"But still to reject the monster right after he created him because he didn't look good? That's whack!" Kurt folded his arms.
"Taking this story kind of personally aren't you Kurt?" Tabitha asked.
"What? No way!" Kurt snapped. "It's just a dumb story that's all!"
"No I think she's on to something," Sam said. "Think about it, Magneto performed experiments on you when you were a baby and your momma tossed you over a cliff. If that isn't rejection I don't know what is!"
"Yeah but for once Mystique was trying to do something right by getting him away from Magneto," Rogue grunted. "Of course if she didn't subject him to the experiments in the first place…"
"ALL RIGHT WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH OF A WITCH MY MOTHER IS!" Kurt shouted. "CAN WE CHANGE THE SUBJECT PLEASE?"
"No we're onto something," Tabitha said. "The majority of villagers in your home town turned against you because they thought you were a monster because of the way you looked. They even tried to burn you alive. That's exactly what happened in the book."
"Thank you for reminding me of that!" Kurt groaned.
"So you do have a personal reason to hate the book!" Amara said.
"Hey! I never killed anyone!" Kurt snapped.
"Yeah but you could have," Jesse said. "If your adopted folks weren't so nice."
"So the monster starts out good but then gets warped because of society and how it treats him," Ray said. "Boy Magneto would have a field day with this one."
"Yeah he'd love the theme of man fearing and hating what he can't understand," Kurt moaned.
"As if we didn't see enough of this in our daily lives," Thornn groaned.
"Yeah that topic has been drilled into our heads so much I wonder if we could ever think of anything else!" Rogue rolled her eyes. "Thanks a lot Kurt! Now I'm hating this book!"
"Yeah thanks for ruining a perfectly good book!" Paige said.
"WELL EXCUUUUSSEE ME!" Kurt shouted. "HOW COME YOU CAN TRASH ALL THE BOOKS I LIKE BUT WHEN THERE'S A BOOK I HATE, AND HAVE A LEGITAMATE REASON FOR HATING THE BOOK BY THE WAY, YOU ALL GANG UP ON ME! IT'S NOT FAIR!"
"Kurt calm down," Rogue said.
"DON'T TELL ME TO CALM DOWN!" Kurt grabbed the book and teleported to the window. "HOW ABOUT WE JUST FORGET ABOUT LEARNING ANYTING AND TRASH ALL THE BOOKS HERE?"
"Excuse me I thought I heard…" Ororo knocked on the door and walked in. "Oh my…"
"Bad book! Bad book!" Kurt was now tearing the pages out of the book and throwing them out the window. "Forget reading these books! Let's just trash them instead! Hahahahahaha!"
"Kurt!" Ororo gasped. "What are you doing?"
"I think Kurt's spending way too much time studying," John covered. "He's been working very hard and I think he's snapped."
"GOOD BYE BOOK!" Kurt shouted as he tossed the cover out the window.
"You think?" Tabitha snickered.
"It's always the strong ones that snap first," Jamie shook his head.
