This section of the story begins with Mina and Lucy. Mina goes to check on Lucy and finds that she has left her bed. She then sees her in the courtyard with a dark figure leaning over the top of her. As she comes closer, the figure goes away and she sees two red pricks on her neck. She concludes that she must have accidentally done it when putting Lucy’s shall on. The next night, Lucy begins to act very strange. She attempts to sleep walk, but Mina locks the door. She points out the window at a bat. Mina becomes worried about her, and the fact that her mom doesn’t worry about her, and the missing Jonathan Harker. Mina then learns that Jonathan has brain fever and she prepares to leave for England. The story then goes to John Seward’s thoughts on Renfield.
In the next chapter Mina tells Lucy by way of a letter that Harker has changed a lot. He is not himself. He doesn’t remember anything from Transylvania. Harker and Mina decide to get married, and he gives her his diary that has the reasons of his brain fever. He tells her to be very secretive about it. Lucy sends her congratulations. Renfield is still acting oddly, and grows calm at the sight of a bat. Lucy becomes ill and Dr. Seward is asked to examine her. He does and says he cannot find a cure. He tells his teacher to go and look at her. He says that much of her blood has been lost. Lucy becomes more sick, and the doctor asks for her master to come at once.
In chapter ten, blood is put back into Lucy’s body, and the cuts on her neck cannot be explained. Seward is told to stay up all night with her and she wakes up in the morning feeling better. The next night Seward falls asleep, and she wakes up pale and sleepy. She has lost blood and a package arrives. It is garlic flowers and they are placed all around the room. She s assured she will sleep well.
Lucy’s mother takes all of the flowers from her room and opens her windows. The doctor is terrified and they tell her mother never to take anything from her room again. They make a blood transfusion, and she is well for the next four days. Renfield attacks the doctor and repeatedly says, “The blood is the life.” A wolf escapes from a zoo and returns in broken glass. There was a message that got delayed that said to go and stay with Lucy at night, but it never got to the doctor. A huge wolf appears at night and Lucy’s mom in terror comes to join her daughter. She had a heart attack, and the maids all drank drugged wine. They all pass out and Lucy sits in her bed in terror.
The doctor comes to the house the next day to see the horror. They make another blood transfusion, but the doctor and Helsing cannot spare anymore. Morris takes care of this problem by donating his. Mina sends Lucy a letter and tells of her marriage. Lucy dies, and with her death she restores her beauty that she had lost in sickness. The next part of the story is the funeral where they say her heart needs to be cut out. Van Helsing is searching for the cause of her death. Mina writes that her husband thinks she has seen Count Dracula, and he becomes asleep. He doesn’t remember anything after he wakes. Mina finds out that Lucy is dead and there was a newspaper article that said there were babies missing.
Words:
Seward- A main character’s name, that I find very funny to say. He is important to the story because he is the doctor dealing with Lucy.
Buda-Pest- The land that Mina writes from. This is an important setting to the story, and is very fun to say.
Garlic flowers- These were used to keep the vampires away, and I did not know that there were such things as garlic flowers?
Westenra- This is where Lucy stayed when she was dying, and once again, very fun to say. It is important because it is where she died, and where the vampire was eating her.
Bloofer Lady- This is what the children call the lady who had kidnaped them. I do not see the reasoning for this, but it is different and fun to say.
-Dan
