Beginning of Dracula

The first book I decided to read along with my group was “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker. My first thought of “Dracula, ” was that I was expecting it to be a lot harder to read, but it is not that bad. The language indeed is in a different writing style then what we presently use today. The words are switched around in sentences in a way we would not expect to find grammatically correct. However, as you read on you adapt more to the style of the writing and it becomes easier to comprehend after awhile. The overall mood of the story is beginning to proceed a bit quicker with possible events waiting to happen. Now just reading on to see what will happen with the narrator’s current position in the story.

This book is written with diary entries in first person. At the beginning not much is happening, and no presence of horror is witnessed. The narrator mainly talks about his voyage trip to the castle of Count Dracula. However, as you progress more into the book you begin to notice a lot of imagery portraying a scene in what you would expect to be in a horror. The dark sky lit by the bright moonlight, along with wolves howling, with a castle on a rigid edge of a cliff are just a few images of the first few chapters.

As I continued to read, the uprising of the idea of a vampire being possibly present had emerged. The narrator began to notice clues surrounding Count Dracula that led him to the idea. His descriptions of a vampire went on saying with “a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white a ivory…” There were other clues as well such as the man being able to control the actions of the wolves, and not having his reflection show in the mirror. All this still remains a question to the narrator as to whether or not Count Dracula is who he really is.