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.

On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning

"Once upon a time, there lived a boy and a girl. The boy was eighteen and the girl sixteen. He was not unusually handsome, and she was not especially beauitful. They were just an ordinary lonely boy and an ordinary lonely girl, like all the others. But they believed with their whole hearts that somewhere in the world there lived the 100% perfect boy and the 100% perfect girl for them. Yes, they believed in a miracle. And that miracle actually happened." ( page 70)

The first thing I noticed was that it started off with the "Once Upon A Time." This is a tactic used by an author to set a happy fairytale tone to the story. I also felt that since this was set up to be like a fairytale, the author used very simple syntax and diction. Everything was so simple, because many times fairytales are meant for children, so the tone and set up was set up for a child to read the story. He did describe many things, but repeated the same adjectives over and over. This repetition was trying to get the point across that they were ordinary people who were lonely. Later on we find out that they stay lonely. It also uses repetition by repeating the 100% perfect. The author is trying to point out that this is the perfect match. It corresponds with the miracle part because these types of things only happen once in a life time. The last thing that he used was parallelism. When talking about the boy and girl, the author uses the same adjectives in the same order to describe them. This shows us that they are identical to each other, once more enhancing the fact that they are 100% right for each other.

The Kangaroo Communique

Once again. I see I'm talking about myself too much. But all things considered, its unavoidable. I mean, I don't even know one solitary thing about you. I've got your address and your name, and that's it. Your age, income bracket, the shape of your nose, whether you're slender or overweight, married or not-what do I know? Not that any of that really matters. It's almost better this way. If at all possible, I prefer to keep things simple, very simple-on the metaphysical level, if you will.


I thought that this post was very interesting. It is talking in the first person, yet the author is bringing the reader into the story. This could also be considered second person. He is talking directly to us, to bring us into the story and get the reader more interested in what is happening. I also found the syntax to be very short and to the point sentences like you were doing this or this. He likes to keep things simple ironic, since everything that he is writing is very confusing, and unconventional. The author used paralleism. It was either one thing or another in the sentences.