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

Hints on what to journal on:


 * 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 1: The movie we watched was a very great movie. it makes you believe its going in a certain direction with he story line then it goes in a completly different direction with a major plot twist. All together it is an interesting movie. __//**

Week 2: The book is suprisingly good compared to what i thought is was going to be like. I'm always up for a good suspenseful book every now and then. the beginning kind of reminds me of when in movies, everyone is blinded by a certain thing and they don't notice what is going on around them. Like in the very beginning of the book, everyone is warning and begging him not to go yet he goes anyway. But what keeps me reading it besides the grade is all the suspense.

better than your 1st week, but still a little vague. get a bit more specific. Ms. G.

Good thing is that, the book is suprisingly good compared to what you thought is going to be like. but i think you need to tell more things about the book ,,,, not just said that people ( beginning kind of reminds me of when in movies, everyone is blinded by a certain things...) Meng Ling Zhao

Week 3: The book is starting to clear up some of the vague points in the begining og the book. The interview with the keeper at the zoological gardens was hard to follow because of the way the keeper talked. And Dr. Van Helsing has an accent that i have to read what he said it least two times just to understand it fully. Ive seen the movie //Van Helsing// and the guy that i picture when i read this looks nothing like the vampire hunter they portrayed in the movie. (and yes i would reccomend the movie Ms. G.) But they also mentioned that the count can turn into a bat. if he can do that why didnt he do that in the begining of the book? Lucy finally 'dies' and then there comes the events of children missing then turning up with puncture marks that only Dr. Van Helsing knows what they are from.

dracula does turn into a bat several times. i'm sure he did at the beginning, also. ms. g.


 * i agree with you on that cody the movie is so cool i like the begining of the movie. shawn hughes **

Week 4:. i liked how Mina got that whole telepathic thing going on with the count. she can hear what he hears and see what he sees. When Dr. Van Helsing was destroying the dirt was a little confusing then i read why the count put then there in the first place. i'm sure that when Dracula reaches his castle about a chapter later everyone will be there trying to kill him. that is going to be a good finale. I was watching an anime series (japanese manga translated to english) called Hellsing Ultimate where its about killing vampires and such. the main characters name is Alucard (Dracula backwards) which i think sounds cooler. but it is like a 5 episode series 1 hour long per episode but still really worth watching. (major swearing though) but i really hope that the 3 female vampires from the beginning show up again i would like to see them in the final battle.

Week 5: it's finnally over all this torture that we were forced to read. :) It was a fairly boring book some parts were interesting. but it's not a book i would read again if i had the choice. I don't get some certain parts, like if the count can go out windows and fly Van Helsing blocked the front door? what would be the point of that? and the happily ever after stuff was bull, it would be better if they all died some how then we know there can't be a sequel. and as i stated last week the 3 female vampires appeared at the end of the book. i kinda figured they would. they don't make a big role but its something you have to bring back at some point.

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that video made me want to vomit!!!! ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ Who wrote this? lol please sign so i can comment back thx.

I agree with that book was boring and i would never read it again. Yes there was also some interesting parts to the book and there was also some parts that didnt need to be in the book.matt s