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**//Write down your thoughts,comments and critiques on this week's reading/video.//** 

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Week 1: The video this week i thought was a very good movie. At first i thought it was going to be boring and just a plain old ghost movie but it turned out to be a very supirsing ending, in a good way. This movie worked for me because it didnt give away anything until the end when the mother and her children realize that they are dead and the people that are in the house are alive, in which they thought the opposite, that they were living and victor and his family were dead. Overall the movie i give a four star and the ending was one of the best ive seen. Nicole Kidman did a great job in the film.
 * Did you like it? Why or why not?
 * Can you compare it to something else you have read, seen, or experienced?
 * What makes it work? or not. ex: setting,pace (as in the build up of suspence),any startle factors, surprise ending etc...

Week 2: In the first one hundred pages of the novel Dracula, i thought it was a very good start to the book. It left me on the edge of my seat when i was done reading the week's assignment. I also had some thoughts about a couple of things that happened during this first part of the novel. First for instance i wondered about why did the man always get out of the carrige when he saw the blue flames? And also if the wolves are all around him in the carriage dont you think somethin was wrong and go back. This novel is getting very exciting, things are starting to heat up between Dracula and Jonathan, now that the Count found the note that Jonathan tried to pass to the Gypsies that were outside the Castle. and also another thing i find odd is that the Count warns Mr. Harker to never fall asleep anywhere but his own room. i wonder why that is?

I think we discussed this in class today, because of the three female vampires who want to drink his blood! Ms. G.

Week 3: in this weeks reading for dracula i kept wondering about why lucy was acting the way she was for the firstpart of the weeks reading but as the reading went on i figured out she was like that because of dracula was getting her blood. it was almost like dracula was torturing her, instead of just sucking out all the blood and making lucy die, he sucked just enough to torture her. also i think that lucys mom is not very smart, by taking the garlic flowers and throwing them out...leaving lucy suseptable to attack. also i foound it very very very strage that the workers drank wine after lucys mother died.

The wine was Def BLOOD! Well im not exactly sure but im just gonna think thats what it is. Keegan Pierce

I think lucys mom didn't know by taking away the garlic flowers will cause of Lucys death, the reason she take away just because she didn't like the way it smell. lucys mom lwaving she just because she get afraid from vampire. Meng Ling Zhao

I agree with keegan saying that the wine was really blood cause that makes more sense an the workers going and drinking wine. Mike smith

dracula week 4: i think that these chapters i just read were the most informational...the book is starting to come together and the story is finally starting to make sense, and little details are now becoming more and more important to the book. i just dont get why dracula needs all of that dirt. i mean 50 boxes is a little much i think. also i find it very interesting that Reinfeild is connected with dracula. i think that its pretty cool that Renfields moods ar connected with draculas actions. also renfield is in my opinion or was in love with lucy. real informative section of the book!

END OF DRACULA: i didnt like the ending of the book at all, i think that the ending would have been much better if there was a twist in the ending...instead it was kind of too plain of an ending, they just capture dracula and slit his throat and stab him in the heart. not a very exciting or good for that matter of an ending. i did like how they used mina to track dracula, i find it interesting that mina can sense dracula after she had been bitten by him and after she drank his blood. i thought that part was good. overall i didnt like the book all that much, i didnt like the letter form that the author chose to do, very confusing at times. just the ending didnt really sit well with me, he could have done a lot of other things with it.