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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...

After reading up to the eighth chapter in Dracula, I thought it was really dry and mundain in the beginning, speaking of course about the recipes and constant dates and travel logs. It picked up alot more when he finally hit the hotel and the people made him uncomfortable about where he was going. The Castle happenings were the most interesting parts because it started to get where there is more action and it begins also to describe the feelings jonathan is feeling, I.E. the hopeless and imprisonment of Castle Dracula. I believe this mundane then, actiony" pattern will continue throughout the story, always building to the suspense of the story.

week 2 of Dracula.- So far after the eighth chapter i find it going back to the bland mundane feel that cam in the beginning of the book just more prolonged. So many times over has Helsing tried curing this girl and night after night he is sabotaged in some fashion and oops need to draw more blood or oops she removed the garlic from the room..this is infuriating lol. I mean for him, for me it just seems that the author is hurting for material and trying to carry on a few extra pages of nonsense, its well written of course but, things seem to repeat. And, this doesn't stop with just Lucy, it continues with the Dr. and Reinfeld..with a few suttle variations. Hoping the next couple chapters pick up sooner than later.

I agree with you on how I feel about the chapters needing to pick up faster. -Bradley Clark

yeah dude. they seriously need to catch up to the 21st century already come'on! why use such big words? my brain hurt. --Darren Davis--

I completely agree, the repetitiveness is getting really annoying. I too hope it gets more interesting soon. Good review. -Leann

I toldaly agree with you that alot of these chapters repeat them selfs alot.matt s.

don't wish too hard, i'm afraid the whole book will be the same style. granted, not too popular now, but it was in the 19th century. ms. g.

I agree I can see why this style is not to popular its very hard to fallow more so when Van helsing talks because he speech is fragmented and very scatered its so hard to understand somethimes. -Jarrod S

Week 3 of Dracula. Just recently i came to a major jolt of joy when Lucy has finally died!!, again. :D Frankly, i hated lucy and i made this very known i believe to everyone. She was probably necessary but, i still feel she left the story lacking. But, alas, i found another thing that bothered me to no end and mentally and morally disturbed me in the bed room scene dealing with Dracula, Jonathan, and Mina..I mean, come on..How can anyone not feel completely disturbed by reading that a husband is helpless to help his wife who's life is at stake right NExt to HIM!! It infuriates me. Dracula must die.

I am also disturbed to my core because its just creepy like his wife was almost in sexual situations with dracula and he didnt do anything this is messed up DOWN WITH DRACULA!- Jrod

i agree with both of you guys. i say we form a mob and gather up followers to finally rid the world of him...... Darren D

last week of Dracula. I think it was an alright ending, the last few pages were kind of nonsense that just kept prolonging everything, jonathan and the fellas are riding towards the castle and finally end, the un-dead. The langauge gets kind of funny or my mind wondered off unfortunately but, either way it was hard to understand for the last bit. What i did make out was that it followed a couple different people's journals, including a bit from dracula i suppose which sorta left to wonder if thatswhat the author meant or i must have been mistaken. But, for my final verdict..Brom Stokers Dracula was a worthwhile read for people who enjoy reading. but, for me, i could have lived without it. All respect but, i dont like reading very much.

yeah the ending wasn't spetacular..and it definately just kept dragging on for no reason, and the language is funny and weird. --cathyyy

and thats fine. ms. g.

i don't think the ending was too great either. it seems like we read this whole book and it's over very quickly. Dracula just kind of dies without any thing spectacular. it seem like there was this big build up, but it was really kind of a let down. Meng Ling ,Zhao

yeah the ending wasn't what i expected it to be but it didn't degrade my view of the book as a whole... Darren Davis

it seems like in most books the ending is dragged out i think its because you know whats there so you can see and you want it to come faster than it will.- J.S also agree with joe i dont like reading at all, and the book wasnt very good, although i do like scary movies/ book, but this didnt keep me on my toes- spencer flint

Witch reflection:The Witch section i think was sort of rushed and i blame that on no part to ms G herself. I think it could have been alot better if we had this class ealier in the year. The blair witch project i believe was a let down to an extent. the scene i think at the end with the guy standing in the corner was very eery? but, then it ended and i was wanting to see more..not because it was extraordinary but because i wanted to see anything that this movie was amping up towards..which ended up being nothing..now, we could have seen the three witches in Hocus Pocus.., or clash of the titans...or..hmmm i cant recall but, still. something else would have been more of an eye opener. But, Great class Ms. G. really enjoyed it.