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Your response should include the following:
- Identify the Title of your book
- Identify the pages read today.
- Write a short summary of the reading.
- Discuss at least one significant event from the day’s reading.
Dracula 350-365
the team gets word that Dracula is boarding a ship heading to Varna with the last box of earth. Mina is glad to hear that Dracula is out of the country because she feels safe once again, but Jonathan still worries about her forehead scar. The group then has a meeting to discuss how necessary it is to defeat Dracula and how they will do it.
Significant: they know where the last box is.
a clockwork orange part 3 ch 4
dim and billyboy take alex to the woods and beat him up. alex left there hurt in the snow with nothing in sight and nowhere to go. he manages to find a house nd the owner takes him in and is very generous. alex finds out it was one of the houses he broke into and that the wife had died because of them. he stays the night there. the man writes an article about alex and puts it in the paper. the man turns out to be against the government and mad at the world.
Dracula
270-283
They find out Dracula boards a ship called the Czarina Catherine which is headed for Varna. The same port Dracula sailed three months before. Van hellsing gives speech saying that Dracula needs to die to set the world free. They make plans to get Dracula at Varna, Mina insists on accompanying them. Harker departs along with Van Hellsing.
crime and punishment
344- 352
Now we are back with the main character. A lot has happened. A strange grey period fell over Raskolnikov. He was confusing incidents and who he had told. He was getting worried, he didn’t know if he told someone a different story of either he just said thing to random people. He is still in a little bit of a haze during katherine’s funeral and after his confession to Sonya. He is present at the funeral and is a friend for Sonya. But he knew he should not have been there. Raskolnikov then had a sit down with the porfiry. Porfiry took a seat and began lighting a cigarette. He then told Raskolnikov to start talking.
Dracula
Pg 259-282
Mina informs the men Dracula was on his way from carfax. When Dracula springs in the room, the men hesitate. Harker then attack first with a knife but Dracula avades it. Seward advances holding a crucifix and wafer, causing Dracul to cringe in pain. Dracula lunges to floor and flings through a window. From below, Dracula bows that Mina and Lucy belong to him and soon, more will too. Von says the hunt is on and Dracula is afraid. Von gives Mina a bell to ring at alarm and the men take shifts guarding her room. On Oct. 4, Harker and Mina awake after hearing a noise, they look out and see Morris, Morris assures them that she will never be without a guard. Mina asks Von to be hypnotized. When Mina grasps the information Von said, she faints.
Von suspects Dracula i onboard a ship retreating to Transylvania. On Oct. 5, Von learned a ship was headed to Varna and a man who matched Dracula’s description booked passage with a large box aboard. Seward says the vampire blood in Mina’s body gives connection to Dracula, that jeopardizes the men’s mission. Von says Mina is showing early signs of becoming undead. Harker writes that Mina becomes anxious as night approaches and ends the entry by stating “She is calling to me”.
An important part is when the guys are headed to fight Dracula because i believe something big is going to happen.
Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray
pages: 185-191 (chapter XVII)
Summary: A week later Dorian is in his residence (Selby Royal) talking with his guests, including Lord Henry. Dorian goes away to go to pick some flowers in the conservatory and then is heard a sound of a falling body and a choked cry. Dorian is found unconscious in the conservatory. He is rescued and he recovers; during the dinner he is happy and carefree, but sometimes he is terrified of the memory of what he had seen in the conservatory: James Vane.
Significant event: Dorian sees James Vane again
A Clockwork Orange
165-176
After the police show up and chase off the people attacking Alex, he recognizes both of them: Dim and Billyboy. They take him away in a police car and drive all the way out to the countryside. They pull him out of the car and beat him close to death, and leave him there stranded. Alex manages to walk his way through the rain to a small village, and went up to a house that had a sign that says HOME. After knocking on the door, he is welcomed by a middle-aged man who tidies him up. Alex realizes that this is the author that he and his gang beat up in the past. During dinner, the author tells Alex that he recognizes him from the newspaper, and wants to hear all about the treatment. He is sympathetic towards Alex, and says that with his experience with the treatment, they might be able to bring down the government. At the end of dinner, the man reveals that his wife died after being beaten by Alex and his gang, still not realizing Alex is the one who did it.
Pg:130-155
When Paul is home he tries to wear civilian clothes to get away from the military so people don’t come up and ask him questions about what’s going on. While Paul is home he decides to visit Kemmerich’s mother to tell her the news about her sons death, she wants to know how it happened and Paul lied to her saying it was quick and he didn’t suffer. As Pauls time staying home comes to the end he wishes that he would have never came home on leave because he saw his hometown struggle and he says, “it only awakens pain for himself and his mother”/ he didn’t want to see his mother so ill.
The Metamorphosis pg. 109-118
Gregor finally dies, and they are all kind of relieved. The rest of the book is just about the family looking forward to the future, and getting Grete a husband.
One significant thing is that Gregor dies. The chairwoman claims that it is from starvation, but it could also be from the apple or from something such as the feeling that he wasn’t wanted there, so he died. it could also be a combination of all of the above too.
Today’s responses are optional – 5pt bonus.