Dracula Pg 185

"And you are right. There will be pain for us all;but it will not be all pain, not will this pain be the last. We and you too- you most of all, my dear boy-will have to pass through the bitter water before we reach the sweet. But we must be brave of heart and unselfish, and do our duty, and all will be well!"

In this the author uses contradiction going back and forth between how much pain this will cause. It confuses the reader into not know what to truly think about the situation. Also he uses repetition of the word pain to emphasize how all these men are feeling about what they have just done (killing Lucy's undead body.) The syntax of this paragraph breaks everything up. It makes you stop in awkward places so that you can analyze and understand what he is truly trying to tell you. Also he uses a metaphor. water can't be bitter, but he is using it to say that you have to go through the bad times before you can get to the good times. Also using this diction such as bitter and sweet gives two opposites which can represent good and evil; what they are up against.

Dracula pg 87

"The wind roared like thunder, and blew with such force that it was with difficulty that even strong men kept their feet, or clung with grim clasp to the iron stanchions."


"The wind roared like thunder" is a simile. This also reflects that spooky and dark mood of the story. It helps to create that effect and also relate it to a sound that we can relate to. Also the wind is a symbol for what is to come almost like Nature is in Frankenstein. It foreshadows what happens next. As the wind is getting rougher in this scene you can tell that the next few scenes will not be the happiest. Things will begin to go wrong as the wind gets rougher. Also the imagery used to show how rough the wind was. You can see the men holding on for dear life to understand the conditions that they were in. This also helps to add to the hopeless mood of the story.




I didnt know if there was a blog this vacation....and if there was I totally forgot about it so I'm making it up even if it doesnt count I still wanted to do it. :)

dreacula pg 46

"It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered. I could see that the bolt of the lock had not been shot, but the door is fastened from the inside. I fear it was no dream, and must act on this surmise." pg 46

The author uses imagery to convey that dark mood. Using diction like forcibly driven helps to create the image of rough harsh movements to lock the door. He wants him to stay in there, or to keep others out. Using this diction helps to create that tone of fear that the narrator is feeling. By reading this you can understand the terror that he is feeling; being trapped and no way out. The syntax also helps to convey this because it is long run on sentences. This helps for the reader to understand that he is thinking nonstop in his head. He just keeps on thinking of more things to add into the sentence. When this happens it gives that sense of fear that the narrator is experiencing.

Dracula pg 41

"To the west was a great valley, and then, rising far away, great jagged mountain fastness, rising peak on peak, the sheer rock studded with mountain ash and thorn, whose roots clung in the cracks and crevices and crannies of the stone."

First the author uses alliteration by using the harsh sound of the c in "cracks and crevices and crannies..." This use of alliteration using the c sound helps to create that spooky, kind of scary atmosphere. Next the author uses imagery. He is describing everything that he is able to see outside, and by using vivid diction to display this, you can get a great image of that Jonathan Harker is looking at through his window. Everything looks so free to him, and there is so much room for him to go explore, compared to being trapped in a small room alone. The syntactical order that the author has placed everything in, using many commas and just making the sentence run on and on reflects the way the character is feeling. He just keeps on seeing all these things outside of his window that he wants, and he doesn't know what to do. He doesn't know how to escape.

Dracula pg 37

"I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things other than buissness in your letters. It will doubtless please your friends to know that you are well, and that you look foward to getting home to them. Is it not so?" As he spoke he handed me three sheets of note-paper and three envelopes. They were all of the thinest foreign post, and looking at them, then at him, and noticing his quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red under-lip, I understood as well as if he had spoken that I should be careful what I wrote, for he would be able to read it."


The author uses imadry to set the dark mood of this passage. He makes sure to perfectly descrive the cainine teeth so that you can see count Dracula smiling at you with them. And the use of the vivid diction helps to enhance the imadry. "Red under-lip" is used to enhance the image of blood by using red to describe it instead of pink. This passage also helps the dark mysterious mood keep going because the author keeps coming to conclusions about Count Dracula. The more he realizes, the scarier it becomes. The diction is very vivid and harsh using alot of harsh sounding letters like p's and t's. This helps to create that harsh and scary tone.

Dracula pg 31

"but I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit.
The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!"

The author's tone of this piece is very frantic. He is in a state of panick by what he has just discovered. The author uses the repition of doors to create the image of having all these ways out, yet none of them will let you. It gives you that feeling of hope but there is no way out. Also by using the semi colon it connects the previous part of the sentence to it. He has explored as much as there is, and all there seems to be are doors that are locked. There is no way out of this castle. When he says that the castle is a veritable prison, he is shocked. He would have never guessed that he would be locked in there. He is more shocked that he let himself get into this position. The way the author uses the grammer helps to convey the feeling of panick that the character is in. The punctuation gives real meaning to what he is saying and gives the feeling to the reader.

Dracula pg 23

" I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt;I fear;I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!"


This quote is about describing how he feels being in Dracula's house. First the author uses a metaphor by saying that he is in a sea of wonder. He really is not in a sea but with everything he is seeing and feeling, he is overwhelmed with feelings. Next the author uses parallelism with "I doubt; I fear. " This connects the two feelings together. You can tell by the diction that the author uses that Jonathan Harker is scared for his life because everything he has seen so far is unlike anything he is used to. The tone of this is very spooky. It is like you are in a scary movie or a haunted house. It gives this because you can tell the fear that he has for his life.


I would also like to say that I am alittle late on this. My computer spazed out on me last night and it wouldnt send it when I had it all typed in.