“I discovered, with pleasure, that fire gave light as well as heat; and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in food” (103). His interaction with nature gives him the ability to develop his instinct to distinguish between two things. Discovering the function of fire is one of the things he learns during his agony in nature. However, the most touching event in Shelley's novel occurs when the Creature educates himself. After finding the books and notes in Victor's jacket in the nearby woods, he begins reading and learning books from Plutarch, Milton, and Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther. These readings produce in him the ideal of new images and feelings saying: “These wonderful narratives inspired a strange one in me. Was man really at the same time so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, and yet so vicious and vile?” (118). Furthermore, books begin to induce new knowledge such as history and religion that help him understand and connect the behavior of human beings. Also learn the French language from the Lacey family and practice those words on your own. Another characteristic that constitutes the essence of a being is cognitive thinking, which he demonstrates when reading, speaking and understanding concrete and abstract ideas. This is shown when the creature reads Paradise Lost and then connects parts of it to his own life. When he reads: “Have I asked you, Creator of my clay, to mold me, man? Have I solicited darkness to promote me? (Milton). This is an example where the creature uses cognitive thinking and then is able to relate it to itself with its emotions. Other lessons stuck with me even more deeply. I have heard of the difference between the sexes; and the birth and raising of children” (119). All his words contain many emotions and convey individual desires, such as a sense of belonging and being loved. His desires to be love create an emotion of hope within him.