Billy+S

Billy Skidmore Mr.Kreft 10/18/09 This story is about a Vampire named Count Dracula that causes complete hell for a few people. One of these people is Jonathon Harker. He is a lawyer that traveled from England to Transylvania to complete the transaction on the counts house. There he finds that he is actually being held captive by the Count until he can escape. Back in England his fiancé’s friend Lucy begins to sleep walk and become extremely pail. To the doctor, Van Helsing, he sees these symptoms of those of a vampire so he ordered for garlic to be put in her house. Her mother unknowingly throws the garlic away and wolfs enter there house killing both of them. Jonathon and his fiancée Mina eventually get married and with a few of there friends track the Count down and kill him for good. **__Count Dracula__**- He is one of the main characters in the book. He has supernatural powers that only vampires have. **__Jonathan Harker__**- He is a lawyer from England that went to Transylvania to complete a deal for the Counts house. He becomes a prisoner to the Count but escapes luckily. **__Lucy Westenra__-** She is a friend of Harker’s fiancé. She falls victim to a vampire attack and eventually get killed by wolfs. When she is dead her head is cut off and her mouth is stuffed with garlic along with a stake being plunged through her body in order for her soul to be able to rest.
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"We learn from failure, not from success!" **-** This quote is important because it is so true. We as a people only truly learn from things that we do wrong. “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.”- This quote is very important because in the book Jonathon Harker stays at castle Dracula for a few days and during the night time weird stuff keeps happening so he is very happy when the morning comes. "He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard..." - this was important because this was Jonathon Harker’s description of Dracula when he first saw him. This helped the reader get a good picture of Dracula himself. Count Dracula: His role in the story is to be the villain. He takes Jonathon Harker captive in order to suck his blood and turn him into a vampire. Throughout the story he takes the other characters on a long hunt while they try to find him. In the end though he is captured by the men and killed right before he made it into his castle. Mina Murray: Mina Murray starts out as Jonathon Harker’s fiancé. At the end of the book they get married though. Mina helps immensely in the search for Dracula. Throughout the book she never once expresses her sexuality towards anyone which shows that she is extremely pure. Van Helsing: Van Helsing is the professor in the novel. Due to his mumbled speech he comes across as being somewhat dumb but in fact he is extremely smart. He knew exactly what to do when Lucy was attacked by a vampire. He is a great man for the job in hunting down the Count because he is well knowledgeable about superstitious creatures.
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