Chapter 5
The trenches sanitation and conditions are terrible. Himmelstoss, the groups old drill sergeant, is sent to the front and the entire group hates him. Tjaden gets in trouble for mooning Himmelstoss after he tried to give him orders.

1984 pg 218-224
Julia woke up to the stove not being on. She was sure she filled enough oil for it to stay burning. Winston looks out the window at the woman singing and thinks how everyone is the same in some way. Winston looks to julia and says “we are the dead” and she repeats it back to them. Then they hear other people say “you are the dead” and turn around to see the thought police standing behind them. They storm into the room, put winston and julia back to back, and smash their paperweight. One of the thought police punches julia in the chest causing her to fall to the ground. They carry her out of the room and Mr Charrington comes in, but he looks different. They discover that he is a member of the thought police.

Gulliver’s Travels pg 220-222

Gulliver learns the language very quickly. He within 3 months can have tolerable conversations with his master and the neighbors. He is found by a valet while sleeping without his clothes.

I think the fact that Gulliver is really good at learning languages is a super convenient trait for him to have and it is very important to his character and the novel.

Pg:130-150
Paul, Leer, and Kropp meet some woman while they are swimming but both are not aloud to cross the canal, so they come back out at night and meet up with woman. Paul ended up getting 17 days leave and he has to return to the front in 6 weeks. When Paul goes back home he founds out his mother is sick with cancer and his hometown is slowly starving. Paul tried to hang out in his room and read to get his mind off things but and think about his childhood but he says the memories are only shadows.

Dracula
Pg 213-235
Mina agrees to let the men handle the work. Seward thinks he should keep Renfield locked up. Von distributes supplies. The guys go into the chapel (carfax). The room swarms with rats, the terriers drive them out. When they return, they hear Renfield screaming and Mina sleeping. (Harker thinks she looks pale) He decides to protect his wife from the new info until Dracula is destroyed. Harker wakes before Mina, who seems dazed. On oct. 1, Von wants to speak with Renfield, he refuses. Mina says she doesn’t remember falling asleep. She looked out the window and saw a stream of mist. She dreamed she saw mist come in from the window and form a shadow figure with red eyes. Then darkness came when she saw a white face come towards her. The next night Mina said she had better sleep but feels weak. Renfield asks to see Mina and asked gods blessing on her. That causes her to cry.

Man who carted boxes to carfax says 6 boxes each went to buildings in east/southeast London. He mails Harker the address of a man who might know more. Harker sends Mina home. He locates the man (Sam Bloxam). Sam says he moved the boxes to Piccadilly and describes the house. Harker returns to Asylum full of news but must wait until Mina retires. Seward speaks with Renfield but he refuses to talk. Seward agitates him until he explodes with anger, them apologizes. Harker assumes Dracula assigned him with a murderous task. Von comes to see Renfield but he ignores Von. The letter arrives from the agency contacted by Harker revealing the buyer of the house in Piccadilly is a “count de ville”. On Oct. 2, an attendant listens outside Renfields room. Renfield screams and the attendant reports an accent. Mina shudders every time she hears Dracula’s name. Harker hates her suffering, but listens to Von’s idea to exclude her and sends her home.

An important part is when Mina starts to look pale and get weak because it shows you what she’s going to turn in to.

1984 pages 239-260
In this section of the book Winston wakes up and realizes he´s being held prisoner or being tortured. They kept giving him drug doses that put him to sleep just to be woken up by beating. The beating became slowly less often.

I think the notable part of this section is the torture moment where they are asking Winston ¨Ḧow many fingers¨ without giving him context to the question followed by more intense needling.

Dracula 217-320
Jonathan and Mina arrive at Mr. Sewards and Mina asks if she can hear about Lucy’s death, but he declines because he does not know that Mina knows about Dracula. Jonathan seeks information about what Dracula is shipping to London, but he only knows its 50 boxes of earth. When they all finally meet up, they discuss the powers of Dracula and agree to try and kill him. All the men go to visit Renfield and he begs them to let him go, they say no, and he tells them they will regret it. They are afraid he will help Dracula somehow. They go to the chapel only to discover 29 out of the 50 boxes, they go back to Sewards for the night and Mina looks pale and is having trouble sleeping. Jonathan bribes a mover to tell him where all of the boxes went, but he only had an explantation for 9 of them. Seward receives news that Renfield was in an accident and covered in blood. When he wakens, he tells the men that Dracula did it. Because of his attack, they learn that Dracula is after Mina. They find Jonathan unconscious on the bed, and Mina sitting up on the edge of the bed.
Dracula is standing next to her, holding her wrists in one hand and with the other, forcing her to drink his blood from a cut in his chest. They find Jonathan unconscious on the bed, and Mina sitting up on the edge of the bed.
Dracula is standing next to her, holding her wrists in one hand and with the other, forcing her to drink his blood from a cut in his chest. Van Helsing and the others move forward, holding the sacred communion wafers and their crucifixes.
Dracula disappears as a mist, and Mina screams. They wake Jonathan up from his vampire-induced trance and tell him what’s going on.
The most significant thing was when Dracula forced Mina to drink his blood.

Gulliver’s travels 168-219

Gulliver continues his exploration of the Academy. He visits “the universal artist” who seems to be a chemist, the side of the building meant for speculative learning, the mathematical school, and the political projectors section of the academy. He sees men attempting to abolish language in multiple ways, math learned by eating it and meets political philosophers whom he believes are all mad. He meets one man in this section with whom he can carry a conversation about Tribnia and their language in the art they make. From there he leaves Lagado for Maldona to get a ship to Japan and finds that one will not be ready for some time. He meets a man in the harbor town who takes him in and tells him of Glubbdubdrib, a land of magicians. They take on a third companion and seek the audience of the governor of the island. Upon arrival, the men are weary of the attendants of the governor’s home. The governor reveals himself as a necromancer and dismisses the ghosts that were in the hall with Gulliver and the other men. Gulliver offers to be in the governor’s service for a time wherein he is allowed to take advantage of the governor’s magic. He used this privilege to talk to many historical figures and philosophers and other men of history he had questions for. He then moves to English royalty and other more modern figures and is extremely disappointed due to the lack of virtues they have and their lackluster personalities and all of the awful things they have done for power. After a time he returns to Maldonada and then sails to the kingdom of Luggnagg where he is summoned to the king’s court. He talks about the custom in the land that one must luck dust off of the floor as they approach the king, as well as the different circumstances that can pertain to such a custom. He finds that only people of the highest degree have the floors washed before their arrival and that some people have dust or poison throne down before they lick the floor depending upon their standing with the king. He tells of his time at court and about the king often attempting to give him a place at office so that he may stay. He learns of the Struldbrugg
who are immortals and he becomes very excited and goes into a diversion about what he would do as an immortal. He is then corrected as to what it is actually like. He is informed that the Struldbugg continue to age, not stay young and youthful as he had imagined. He learns that they lose their wives and memory at 40, that they are eventually stripped of their title of living citizens and their assets, that they are miserable and do not lose their vises with old age as Gulliver had originally believed he would, were he an immortal. He meets some of these people and finds them a sad and disturbing sight. He leaves from there to japan with a letter of recommendation for him to see the Japanese king. He has to lie about being from Holland but is treated with hospitality nonetheless. He is eventually taken to Holland and then returns to England. After some time he is once again convinced to take on a voyage, but this time as a captain instead of a surgeon. His ship is overtaken by pirates who Gulliver accidentally hired to replace lost crewmates. The pirates confine him to his cabin for a time while they sell his goods and then drop him off at the first piece of land they find. He swims to the shore of the large island and then sees these disgusting creatures of seemingly human origin, with whom he has an unpleasant encounter. He then encounters two horses whom he thinks are magicians in disguise. The horses seem to be sentient and teach him a few words in their language before taking him back to their home. My reading ends with Gulliver describing how he managed not to starve to death.

I think that there are two super important parts of this reading. These are the immortals and the creatures Gulliver first encounters on the island of Houyhnhnm. The immortals show a really sad outlook on immortality about how sad the author thinks the experience would be because there would be no escape from life. The creatures seem to be a really important plot point because great care is taken by the author to describe the physical similarities between Gulliver and the Yahoos, as they are called.

crime and punishment
277-343
Dunya and Luzhin engagement is off and now he is mad at Raskolnikov. I think that Ivanovna spent a lot of money on the memorial banquet because of her pride. She said that she is fine and well, but she is coughing up blood during the meal. Luzhin pulls her aside. He accused sonya of stealing a ” one-hundred-ruble note”. When they went through her coat pocket, they found the one hundred ruble note. Raskolnikov then visits sonya in her room. Raskolnikov promises to go back and confess to the police again about the murders and will deal with the punishment.

The Metamorphosis pg. 90-96

In this small amount of pages we learn a lot about how Gregor’s family is doing…they are not doing good. They are constantly arguing. Grete believes that she is the only one who should take care of Gregor, but now it has just become a chore and they are starting to neglect Gregor. They are barely feeding him, and completely ignoring his existence. A lady did come and examine Gregor.

I think an important part of this section is that Kafka mentions Gregor’s hunger a couple of times, so it could be tat Gregor will die due to his being neglected.