Autum Ziegler 1 Page Summary Dracula starts out with one of the main characters named Jonathan, he is on his way to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania do to work for him. It does not take long for Jonathan to realize that he is a prisoner in the castle. Jonathan eventually escapes and makes it out of the castle back home to England. During the time that Jonathan was coming back to England and escaping the castle Mina, Jonathan’s fiance, and Lucy, Mina’s best friend are together at Lucy’s house. Lucy has been having bad dreams and sleepwalking, at one point she sleep walks to a church during the night and Mina has to go get her. Mina later leaves and goes back to London and goes to Jonathan because he has returned, he is very weak and ill. Mina and Jonathan are …show more content…
While Mina and Jonathan are at their house Lucy is still sleepwalking and having dreams, she is also very pale and weak, her fiance, Arthur Godalming, is very concerned about her and calls on one of his best friends Dr. John Seward, to find out what is wrong with Lucy. Dr. Seward can not solve the problem so he asks his old professor Dr. Van Helsing for help. Dr. Van Helsing is quick to realize what is going on and tries to save her. Sadly they are too late to save her and she dies. During her funeral and after that she becomes healthy and beautiful looking again, Van Helsing knows why this is happening but Dr. Seward does not. Van Helsing has to explain to Dr. Seward what is going on but he does not understand so Van Helsing has to show him that Lucy is undead and a vampire drinking the blood of children. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur, and Arthur and John Seward’s other best friend Quincey Morris all have to work to kill Lucy so she can not hurt more children. Jonathan and Mina are later informed on all that has happened and start to work with those four men to kill Dracula. Mina starts to have dreams and lose energy like Lucy did. They find out