I have reached chapter 20! the group of men that want Dracula dead have begun to take steps into getting rid of him from the world. i think that Mina has been bitten by Dracula. it is hinted throughout chapter 19 where it says that she is growing more tired and feeling weak, and she we are told is beginning to turn a shade of white. i think that this is a great use of dramtic irony by Bram Stoker as we the reader pick up on these hints in the novel and begin to piece together the events and descriptions into a reason behind them. this creates tension well as we suspect she has been bitten but we are still not sure. we hope that she hasn't and with that we get a sense of dread. however i still don't know if she has been bitten so i am still not a 100% certain so maybe im wrong, i hope i am anyway.

i enjoyed reading the part when the group entered Draculas' house. i thought this was a really good bit as the house described was exactly how had previously imagined it to be. the part whenn they thought they saw Draculas' face was thrilling as i started to believe that Dracula was present at all times and could watch the characters without them knowing. this makes Dracula the more scary as we think that he can be anywhere at anytime without us knowing which is a scary thought.

im intrested to see still how they go about finding and killing Dracula and what role the madman Renfield has to play in the plot. i shall continue to read so my questions are answered....

alot further on

wow ive read alot in the last half term. im somewhere in the middle of chapter 17 and the story has began to pacen up. Dr Van Helsing has told everyone finally that Lucy is a Vampire and Lucy has even began to consuming the blood of small children. i enjoyed the section where Dr Van Helsing tried to explain what she had become to Dr Steward. i think that this part was written cleverly as Dr Steward was shown to think about the strange events (Lucy being missing from her coffin) rashionally and i feel made sense of the way as we would. it shows well how we connot understand things that are unusual to us and are even prepared to use extremely unlikly events to explain these goings on.

i wasn't expecting Lucy to actually become a vampire. i find this hard to believe. this is because she has gone from someone so sweet and kind to a monster that steals children at night and bites them to suck their blood out so that they themselves become vampires. this was a good twist in the story i think and did shock me.

in my opinion it took a long time for Lucy to actually become a vampire. i suppose this was done to build the reader up to believe that Lucy won't die and therefore it becomes a big shock when she finally does and becomes the un-dead. however i feel that she could have had one or two less blood transfusions just to cut it down a bit.

i am intrested to see how they do eventually defeat Dracula if at all. i also want to see if any other main chracter fall victim to Dracula or Lucy or even one of the children that Lucy has bitten. i will have to read on