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).

Reaction
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 .