Jonathan+Masterson+Journal+Page

**//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?

Week:3 I understood chapters 8 -15. On August 10, Mina awakens to find Lucy’s bed empty. She goes outside to find Lucy and sees her in the churchyard, reclining on her favorite bench with a dark figure bending over her. I love how lucys wounds only heal if she has a sexual connection with dracula. When Van Helsing arrives to find Lucy terribly pale and unable to breathe easily, he transfuses Holmwood’s blood into Lucy. But all in all the book is great so far i mean the way he his writing this all into a journal is absolutely amazing on his part.
 * What makes it work? or not. ex: setting,pace (as in the build up of suspence),any startle factors, surprise ending etc...

I don't think that there is a sexual connection between them. When the dark fiigure is standing over her in that part of the book i'm pretty sure he's just drinking her blood.... ryan mahdy

verytrue, ryan. there really is no sexual connection and then a healing of the neck wounds. ms. g.

Week:4 Chapters 15-23 Seward is appalled by Van Helsing’s suggestion that Lucy is in some way responsible for the rash of wounded children. That night, the four men go to Lucy’s grave and find it empty. Van Helsing seals the door of the tomb with Communion wafers to prevent the vampire Lucy from reentering. At Van Helsing’s urging, Jonathan and Mina Harker come to stay with Seward at the asylum.The men make the journey to Carfax, arming themselves with holy objects for protection. There is no sign of Dracula in the chapel, but there is a terrible stench, and the men find twenty-nine of the original fifty boxes of earth.Harker’s investigations reveal that twelve of the remaining boxes of earth were deposited in two houses in London. He traces the remaining nine boxes to a house in Piccadilly, a London suburb. Harker’s companions worry over how they will manage to break into a house in such a highly populated area.Dying, Renfield admits to the other men that Dracula often visited him, promising him flies, spiders, and other living creatures from which to gain strength in return for Renfield’s obedience.In his journal, Harker recounts the end of Renfield’s story: before escaping the asylum, the count pays one last visit to the lunatic, breaking his neck and killing him. The men obtain keys to Dracula’s other houses around the city. Holmwood and Morris hurry off to sterilize the twelve boxes that are stored in London, while Harker and Van Helsing leave to do the same to the boxes in Piccadilly.

Just a helping pointer you should write a little more on how you feel about the things you read than just rewrite what you read. But in this part of the book i really liked how they put all this effort on tracking down all the coffins. Van Helsing is really wants the count dead. ~ryan mahdy~

You need to put what stud out to you or put any thing in here that you were confused about. I also like this part of the book where the guys killed lucy with a stack and hammer then cut off her head then put ogions in her mouth.matt s