Frankenstein Chapter 2 Summary

Unlike Walton, Victor has friends. Two of them. Or at least, he did during his childhood. First, there is Elizabeth. Victor also has a friend named Henry Clerval.
Victor describes his idyllic childhood, but don’t worry: less happy things are coming. Begin use of historical present.
As a brooding teenager, Victor develops an interest in science. Especially interesting to him is the old, not to mention discredited, field of alchemy.
He talks a lot about some guy named Albertus Magnus, who was a real scientist, by the way.
Victor realizes that science is very powerful, but possibly also destructive, when he sees a tree get struck by lightning. Hmm!