Thursday, May 19, 2011
Chapters 10-11
Post your own observations, questions, and remarks about Chapter 10-11. When you respond to this posting, DO NOT simply repeat the thoughts of your classmates. You can add something new to a previous comment. You can comment or critique a previous posting, but your main goal is to add something new to the discussion. Remember, try to include direct quotes as much as possible!
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I don't understand why towards the end of chapter 10 Van Helsing has to import the garlic from another place instead of just going down to a kitchen and getting some from there... Is it okay if the book i got is bigger than others and it the pages that i find things on are different??
Yes, there are many different editions of the book...as long as yours is not abridged, you are fine.
Well, maybe native garlic is more toxic than English garlic...lol!
Beginning on page 146, we start to see Lucy losing blood. Van Helsing says " she wants blood,and blood she must have or die. Later Van Helsing keeps administrating blood to Lucy like mad (I am quite curious as if blood types still mattered back in those days but it seems to have worked alright for them). It's obvious that Helsing wonders how Lucy keeps losing this blood that is given to her, but i feel that there would be blood all over Lucy's room if it was blood loss from her neck?
Van Helsing gets smart and puts the "imported garlic" all around Lucy. Lucy's mother takes the garlend off (what a dumb thing to do). I don't understand why the mom would question Helsing or did she not know? Also in chapter 11 page 164 we see that a wolf has escaped the zoo. The zookeeper who can't enunciate says that the wolf is "well behaved ( page 165)". Dracula apparently has something to do with this as we can see from the beginning chapters when Dracula controlled the wolves and when he used them to scare Harker. If you pay close attention, the wolf is found covered in glass, which is from Lucy's bedroom window. The wolf gave Lucy's mother a heart attack( her first mistake was removing the garlic....) and Lucy's fate is yet to come. Along that weird encounter, we see Dr. Sewerd get his wrist cut and some weirdo licking his blood. This guy screamed "the blood is the life" which I feel gives insight on future problems.
I found it to be absolutely heartbreaking in chapter 10 when Art was pouring his heart out to Van Helsing about how he would die for Lucy, "What can I do? Tell me, and I shall do it. My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her."
After seeing all of the foreshadowing to Lucy's fate, knowing how much he loves her....it's absolutely heart-wrenching.
To add on to Jacob's comment, all of those men loved Lucy. On page 147, Dr. Seward witnesses how Van Helsing really felt about the situation. According to Dr. Seward, "he sat down in a chair, and putting his hands before his face, began to sob, with loud, dry sobs." He knew the fate of Lucy as well as I did. I think Lucy dying took a toll on me as well!
In chapter 11, Mrs. Westerna believes that Lucy is getting better. When she says this to the Professor, he states "Aha! I thought I had diagnosed the case. My treatment is working,"(pg. 129). But after he says this, Mrs. Westerna comes back and says "You must not take all the credit to yourself, doctor. Lucy's state this morning is due in part to me." She believes that by removing the garlic from Lucy's neck she is helping her, but it was a really dumb thing to do, because it only caused more harm to her. It's not as if she didn't know that they were trying to cure her daughter, why wouldn't she just leave what they had done alone? Because of this, Van Helsing begins to break down, which down the line could cause even more problems.
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