Dracula (141-280)

Summary
Upon Dr. Van Helsing' arrival he treats Lucy with a blood transfusion. She feels much better the next day and Dr. Van goes back to Austria. Meanwhile Dr. Seward is still dealing with his patient and his multiple escapes. On one strange night the man escapes and Dr. Swar follows him to an alley where the man is speaking  to a strange tall man resembling the man that stands over Lucy.  acouple of days later Lucy is back to the way she was. Ther is no doctor but Dr. Sweard. He tells Dr. Helsing snd perform a blood transfusion using his blood. After Van Helsing instructsDr. swear to watch over Lucy. Lucy is bloodless and pale the next day as she was before. Now Dr. Van Helsing giveshis blood to Lucy and he puts garlic flower in the house to protect her . Mind you that every night Lucy hears a bat outside of her window. An escaped wolf appears in a news article in the book. Two nights later Lucy is feeling a lot better, and is at hime with her mother. The bat and a wolf were at her window and the wolf break the glass and come into the house and attacks Lucy. Van Helsing finds Lucy is an even worse state. Her mom is dead and her house maids are drugged and Knocked out. The put lucy in a hot bath, and she gets another blood transfusion.

Quote
" As I expected (Stoker 156)."
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This quote si exactly the opposite of this book. Its rather ironic. While reading this book, you can not expect what comes next. Thats why I enjoy reading it so much. The unexpected gives the story a sense of mystery and thrill. SO far is bokk has been a little confusing but it has been greatly entertaining. The details are great and this is quickly becoming one of my farovites.

Dracula (1-140)

Summary
 The story begins with Johnathan Harker on his way to Count Dracula castle in Transylvana. It takes him two days to get to the castle and in those two days he meets many people that warning him not to go to the castle. They say the castle has evil in it. Once he get in it, he meets Dracula. Dracula is an old man who is interested in buying London real estate. Dracula spends all night talking to Harker and sleeps through the entire day. Harker thinks nothing of this becasue he has become use to it also. Next, he encounters a house filled with locked doors. Dracula tells Harker not to go in any but he disobeys and opens a door. Inside are three women who try to drink his blood. However, everything that happens to him feels like a dream. The weeks pass buy and Johnathan is held prisoner in his room. He is beginning to worry that Dracula is who he seems to be. Then, Dracula promises to let him go in one week and when that day came he got out of his room. He went inside Draculas room and foiund him sleeping a coffin, and slammed his with a shovel. He panicked and found out the doors were locked.
    Next, the point of view switched to Mina Murray she is Johnathan Harker's fiance. Mina is worried about Johnathans well being becasue she has not heard from him in weeks. The entire  time that Johnathan is away she was worries about him. It switches off between Lucy and Mina's journal entries. Lucy is getting courqed and she finally chooses Arthur to be her husband. The wedding is set and she lives with Mina becasue she can not see her husband. Lucy begins to sleep walk every night. It gets a lot worse when Mina has to lock doors and windows to keep her from getting out. There is also strange things happening in London, like a ship arriving with the captain strapped to the wheel. Howling dogs are everywhere. One night Lucy manages to go outside and lays on a bench. Mina panicks when she sees Lucy is gone and finds her with a man standing over her. As Mina approaches Lucy, the man disappears. She wraps a scarf around her and pins it. She thought she pinned her becasue there is blood on the scarf.
    Now we are in the world of Johnathan Seward and owns a mental institution. One of his patients has a strange obsession with eating strange things like bugs, and spiders. When he goes to Lucy's house, she looks pale and sick and weak. He telegraphs his old professor Dr. Van Helsing and tells him of this strange occurance. Van Helsing examines her, and notices two little pricks on her neck that are very curious.

Quote:
"I awoke in my own bed"(Stroker 52).

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This is a quote from Johnathan Harker's journal. It is right after her has that starnge "Dream" about the women that wanted to suck his blood. He wakes up feeling that something strange has occured or is going to occur. This quote gives a small summary of the story so far becasue the whole story seems like a nightmare. This book is definatly one of the most suspenseful I ever read! Every page has such descriptive language that I feel as if I am the characters portrayed in the story. Putting this book down is a challege becasue I always want to keep reading it .