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Transcendiarism In Dracula, By Bram Stoker

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After the death of his wife, Martha who died because of incendiarism by humans doing, Count Dracula built a hotel named Hotel Transylvania. This hotel is actually build to take care and grow up his only daughter, Mavis far away from human civilization. Every monsters around the world are usually come to this hotel to go on vacation with their family because this is human-free and the safest place for monsters. On the Mavis 118th birthday, Dracula had planned a great party for his lovely daughter. However, unexpectedly a 21-year-old Jonathan came to that hotel. Dracula wanted to drove away Jonathan, yet, some of the monster had suspected Jonathan as a human, so Dracula improvised a story that Jonathan is a Johnnystein, a distant cousin of Frank's right arm. Soon after that, Jonathan met Mavis. They got along each other. As the time pass by, Mavis seemed falling in love with Jonathan. On the other side, Dracula who was always afraid with human because of his memories in the past, find out that his daughter is very attracted to this man. He tried to erase the memory of Jonathan, but failed because he is wearing contact lens in his eyes. Because of this failure, Dracula tried to frighten Jonathan that if he did not want to go, Dracula would suck his blood. …show more content…

Meantime, Quasimodo, a monster chef for that hotel learned that Jonathan is a human and so, he tried to kidnap and cook him into a human pie. Knowing that, Dracula saved Jonathan and froze Quasiomodo in order to prevent him talking to other monsters that there was a human exists in that hotel. After that moment, Dracula told the story to Jonathan about why he was really hate and angry to the human. In a short time, Jonathan realized that it is not all fault by those monster who always be meant to human, but it is the human fault first. Soon, the party begun. Dracula let Jonathan joined in the

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