Frankenstein, Chapter 21: samenvatting

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1. Witnesses describe a strangled body and a solitary boatman, leading Mr. Kirwin to test the narrator's reaction to the corpse.
2. The narrator recognizes Henry Clerval, suffers convulsions, and spends two months dangerously ill in prison.
3. Mr. Kirwin arranges care and contacts the narrator's father, whose arrival comforts him during his recovery.
4. Evidence placing the narrator in the Orkney Islands causes the grand jury to reject the indictment, securing his release.
5. Despite despair and attempts to end his life, the narrator resolves to return home and protect his loved ones.
6. He sails from Ireland with his father, takes extra laudanum, and wakes from a nightmare of the creature strangling him.

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