Dracula like many other novels is written in the first person but unlike most novels it tends to differ. The book starts off as a first person journal of Johnathan Harker and describes his experiences, then it switches to Mina’s journal, then to letters between two characters, and later to a newspaper article. It tends to keep this pattern roughly throughout the book. Normally, when reading a book the reader does not understand the characters motivations due to the fact that they lack understanding on the subject. This is usually because they do not have insight into the other characters' perspective. Which is not the case in Dracula. Because Stoker used the episodic method the reader now knows what each and every character's motivation