First Part of Chapter 8

Only First bit of Mina's journal.

Bite marks on the throat?
Bats?
Blood?

This reminds me of something....... Vampires, that was it.

This passage is very effective on the readers imagination, there are lots of spooky parts that releases the mind into a warped world of Gothic literature. The sleep walking business is especially a spooky thing which i mentioned in another one of my posts and it being like a soul-less body.

I love the little hints we get towards there being a vampire around like Lucy's face being paler by the day with no logical explanation apart from the marks on her throat. 'His red eyes again' This i think is a powerful sentence as it can relate to Gothic literature really well.

1. People don't usually have red eyes
2. Red eyes could maybe relate to the devil
3. Red is among the colours that typically feature in Gothic art
4. Red is the colour of blood
5. Red eyes may suggest swollen with blood, maybe a vampire
6. Again, suggests that it just keeps happening.

So the sleep walking with Lucy and the pale faced man and the church and the bats all make this part a very important part as we are learning more about these vampire like creatures.

I like the part with the church as i think they are a very Gothic structure and all in one of my pieces of writing i wrote about a church so it is maybe something i can relate to.