Friday, July 2, 2010

Today i will recommend you a great books. Dracula.

The stories starts out slow, Jonathan Harker journeying by train and horse carriage from England to Count Dracula's castle . He was going there to provide legal support to Dracula for a real estate transaction overseen by Peter Hawkins, of Exeter in England.

Dracula turns out to be very friendly at first, entertaining Mr. Harker, but soon discovers that he has become a prisoner in the castle. He also begins to finds about Dracula's nocturnal life. One night trying to escape from the castle, despite Dracula's order not to, Harker was captured by the brides of Dracula and put under a spell. He was saved at the last second by the Dracula, because he wants to keep Harker alive just long enough to obtain needed legal advice and teachings about England and London. Harker barely escapes from the castle with his life.

Not long after, a russian ship was found abandoned with the captain tied to the helm. On finding the ships log, they discover the mysterious events on the ship.

Now, Dracula is tracking Mina, Harker's wife, and Lucy, Mina's friend. Dracula then turns into a wolf and bit Lucy. Lucy was presumed dead but a few days later, the news papers report a beautiful women stalking some children. Van helsing, Lucy's doctor, has formed a part to hunt down vampires. On finding lucy, they staked her heart, beheaded her and filled her mouth with garlic, the way to kill vampires. Harker and his wife also joins the party to go against Dracula.

On learning about the plot to kill him, Dracula visits Mina and bites her 3 times and feed on her blood, turning her into a vampire in disguise.

When the party finally found Dracula, they staked his heart and he fell into ashes. Mina is freed and the story ends by Mina and Harker having a child.

 

My favourite character would probably be Dracula, he is very shrewd and his character is different from the rest as he is the villain. The stories about him running away from the gang and finding Mina really gives me the creeps.

This is the most notable work by Bram stoker, I think that he can convey his message extremely well as I have read many horror stories in my time and they do not make you have goose bumps and are probably boring.  Reading normal horror stories would probably make me fall asleep. Although Dracula is scary, I can’t stop reading it.

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