Dracula blog 8

This section begins with Dr. Seward giving an account of that happened in Renfield's chamber. They found the patient unconcsious and lying on the ground. His back was broken and he had a major fracture to the skull. The guards said that it all had happened at once and that they could only hear one voice, that of his. They weren't sure how Renfield had managed to break his back at the same time inside of the chamber; it was nearly impossible. Van Helsing acted fast and underwent an operation above Renfield's ear to save him. He was eager to find out what happened to Renfield and needed him to be alive in order to know. After the quick operation Renfield awoke as if he had just had an awful dream. After a while Renfield realized that it was not a dream and that it was all so real. The Count showed up at the window in the msit and was invited in by Renfield. The he began to promise Renfield lives of many rats, dogs and cats as well. As he was promising these things rats flew out of his house next to the asylum, fulfilling his promise and making Renfield believ. At that moment The count came in and attacked Renfield. Renfield put a fight that didn't last long. Renfield told the others that the Count had been preying on Mina and that he could smell it in the blood on the Count and by the paleness in Mina's face. After sharing his account, the gang quickly ran to Mina's room and found in the room Jon athan Harker, Mina, and the Count himself. As the Count saw them break in the room, he began to attack them. Before he could get to them, Van Helsing had out his sacred wafer and his crucifix. Immediately the Count drew back quickly. As he did so, the rest of the gang held out their crucifix's and approached the Count as well. The Count left the room immediately and the gang attended to Mina. When they were able to wake Jonathan and Mina, Mina told her account of what had happened. She said that the Count sucked her blood, then opened his shirt, cut a wound into his chest and forced Mina to drink the blood from the wound. At that time the gang broke in and they knew the rest. The gang planned out what to do next and finally decided that they must start to take action and sterilize the boxes earth in the Count's houses. Before they left, Van Helsing wanted to do bless Mina by place the wafer on her body in the sign of the cross in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit. As soon as the wafer touched Mina's fore head it burned into her flesh and she let our a scream. After this they began with the house next to the asylum and opened each box one by one. Inside they placed a portion of the wafer and then sealed it up and left each box as it was before they intruded. They then planned to break into the house at Piccadilly by hiring a locksmith during the day and entering the house as if it were theirs. They succeeded in the task, but when they got inside, they found only 8 boxes instead of 9, meaning that the Count had already moved another box. They sterilized the 8 boxes inside the house, and on a table found they keys and legal papers to all of the other houses that the Count owned. They then left the house and Quincey and Arthur went to examine the other houses, while Jonathan and Van Helsing wait for tem at the asylum.

I think that Mina is gone for. She is definitely a Vampire now and I don't believe that she will survive the change. It's going to be sad when the gang has to kill her. during one of the passages I think that Jonathan mentioned that if she has to become a vampire, she will not go alone. This makes me wonder if he will try to become a vampire if she does fully change. The book is getting much easier to read because it is much more interesting.