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Summary of Dracula Pg.3

A married English Lawyer named, Jonathan Harker, travels to a castle Dracula in

a Eastern European Country called Transylvania. Harker travels to castle to perform a

real estate job with a nobleman named Count Dracula. When Harker travels through the

countryside, peasants warn him about the castle. Local peasants would mumle strange

words that harker translated later into "vampire". The peasants give him charms to

protect him against evil.

Ariving in Transylvania, Harker mets the count's carriage as planned. As Harker

takes a journey to the castle, the carriage is attacked by wolves. before the he arrived that

the castle, harker learns that the Dracula is an old man who is highly educated. It is only

after a few short days later Harker find out he is a prisoner in the castle.

Spending time in the castle, makes Harker more uneasy about his stay.

Investigating he finds out that the count has superpowers. It is at one night that Harker is

almost attacked by three young, beautiful lady vampires. As the females were trying to

seduct Harker, Dracula pushes them off, telling the females that he belongs to him. The

scared Harker attempts to run away from the castle by climbing the walls.

Back home in England, Harkers Fiancee', Mina, talks with her friend Lucy

talking about Lucy's three marriage proposals from Dr. John Seward, Arthur Holmwood,

and Quincey Morris. She accepts Mrs. Holmwood's proposal.

Mina meets up with Lucy in the town by the shore called Whitby. A ship crashed

on the shore by the town. The crew was missing, the captin dead. The cargo that washed

a shore was boxes shipped from Castle Dracula.Suddenly, Lucy starts sleepwalking. One

nights, Mina sees Lucy in the cemetery in a dark form with bright red eyes. Mina

becomes sick to her stomach and receives two little marks on her throat. This bring alarm

to the town because not the best dr, Dr Seward, can firgure out what the marks were. DR

Seward calls for the town professor Mr. Van Halsing.

Harker appears in the city of Buda-Pest with brain Fever. Once Mina hears about

his arrival, she joins him there. When Mr. Van Helsing arrives in Whitby he examines

Lucy and calls for her to go to the chamber and be coved with garlic. By at this time, this

was a traditional cure against vampires. Lucy begins to heal, her mother unaware, throws

out the garlic making Lucy vulnerable to more attacks.

Van Helsing make serval

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