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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 2:**** W hen i got this book. Wow, this book are very thick for me to read, i get scared. It also wrote by old english, But I have always been interested in the classic horror movies and novels, when I just started reading and not thinking of the plot of story. i did not know what will be going to happen in the next step, but __DRACULA__ this book really put me into it.  Thousands of people believe that vampires, in the dark, legend and trembling, but sometime they don't really know how to solve the problem. In this book they told us bloodthirsty vampires are not bloodthirsty general. **
 * 5/11/2010 Dracula chapter:1-8


 * Mengling, Lucy has not been killed yet. i know the novel is quite long, but just hang in there and read it for fun. Ms. G.**

WEEK 3: **Dracula chapter: 8-16** i know the mother didn't like the smell of garlic flowers ,and during the night she removed all the “horrible, strong-smelling flowers” from Lucy’s room and opened the windows to let in fresh air, i don't understamd why when she doing that ,why she didn't ask the docter

very true, also very annoying of the mother1 ms. g.

WEEK 4: Dracula chapter: 16-22 That night, the four men go to Lucy's grave to check it out and they find it's empty, the Lucy's wasn't in it. I don't understand why when the men surround her, she drops the child and calls out passionately to Holmwood, telling him to come to her. After he saw all horror things happen, he make the final decision to finish up the “terrible task”. i think this need lots of daring to do it.i feel bad that Holmwood is still terribly shaken by Lucy’s death.

WEEK 5: Dracula chapter: 23-27 Mina make them promise that if she starts to turn into vampire, they will kill her. I wonder if they would be able to do this. when dracula dies Mina see that he has very peaceful look on his face. i think this means that good has won over evil. the story also has strong reference to Christian beliefs when the communion wafers are placed around Mina to protect her against the vampires.

The Blair Witch Project: i don't really like this video, because it's too real they don't ues technology to edit the story. I like the suspense. i know the file is make very cheaply, i was so surprised that the movie was a hit and very popular with young people.

I agree that it is crazy how it was popular with young people, and the movie was created very cheapily.. -Rachael Kelly