The Creature's first days and the cottage

1 A high view over the endless forest near Ingolstadt in hazy summer glare.

2 The newborn Creature sits alone by a brook in the night forest, wrapped in a found cloak

3 Alone in the forest, the Creature reaches for the beggars' abandoned fire with childlike joy.

4 A giant stoops under the lintel of a shepherd's hut, dark against the glare of the snowy fields.

5 At sunset the village the Creature found so wonderful turns on him.

6 Bruised by the villagers' stones, the giant lies curled in a lean-to too low to stand in

7 Through a chink in the hovel wall, the Creature watches a fair-haired girl carry a pail

8 The Creature watches the blind old cottager lift his weeping daughter with tenderness

9 Felix reads aloud by the light of a taper.