Plot+Outline


 * Plot Outline **

**Chapter 1 **

 * ﻿ The book begins with the diary of a man named Jonathan Harker, a lawyor on a business trip, travelling from London to the castle of Count Dracula in Eastern Europe.
 * He takes copious notes during his journey about the food, the landscape, and the people he encounters.
 * He experiences some suspicious events during this trip. First, he recieves an omnious warning from an inkeeper. She claims it is the eve of St. George’s Day, when “all the evil things in the world will have full sway.” She then puts a crucifix around his neck, and warns him not to go to the castle.
 * He also recieves some other people showing pity for him as well. The other passengers in the coach, all travelling to a different location, also give him small items meant to ward off evil.
 * When Harker gets into his personal coach to take him to the castle, many weid things happen. He notices that the coach seems to be just goin in circles, a misterious blue flame in the woods keeps appearing, and wolves terrorize the the coach.

Chapter 2

 * ﻿ Harker arrives at the castle and meets dracula. He notices the count has pointed ears, extremely pale skin, and very sharp teeth. Harker’s fears return.
 * The more Harker chats with the count, the more uneasy he gets. He finds that there are no mirrors in that castle. One morning, the count interrupts Harker while he is shaving, causing him to cut himself. Glancing at his shaving mirror, he notices that Dracula has no reflection. Dracula reacts in a disturbing way. After warning Harker against cutting himself in this country, Dracula throws the shaving mirror out a window and leaves Harker alone for the rest of the day.
 * Harker also realizes that he has never seen Dracula eat or drink.
 * After exploring the castle and testing doors, Harker realizes that he is a prisoner in the castle. He can't get out.

**Chapter 3**

 * The count warns Harker to never fall asleep anywhere but his own room. He also insists that he write letters to his fiancee and is employer, telling them he is extending his stay. One night the count leaves Harker to sleep, but Harker explores the casle instead. Looking out a window, Harker observes the count crawling down the sheer face of the castle. He now wonders what Dracula actaully is.
 * One night, Harker breaks into a locked room and falls asleep. He awakes to find three womenwith extremely red lips and sharp teeth. As one women puts her lips on his neck, Dracula rushes in, and tells the women that they can kiss him when he is done with him. Then Dracula gives the women a bag with a live creature in it.

**Chapter 4 **

 * Harker wakes in his own bed the next morning, not knowing if the previous night was a dream or not.
 * The count has Harker write three letters to his fiancée and employer, each dated many days in advance. Harker must write that he has left the castle and is safely on his way home months in advance.
 * One day, a women comes to the castle door, begging for her child back. A pack of wolves then come and devour her.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Harker sees the count scale down the castle wall in his own suit he wore on his way to the castle.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Harker climbs down the castle just like the count and goes into the window he sees the count go to. He finds the count in a box, either dead or asleep and flees back to his room.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Harker asks to leave early, but the count sends wolves after him to bring him back.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Harker goes back to counts room and finds him in box. Takes a shovel and tries to kill count, but count is unharmed. Harker tries to escape by climbing down castle wall.

**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Chapter 5 **

 * Mina is writing to hier friend Lucy, telling her that she recieved a letter from Harker stating that he will be arriving home soon.
 * Lucy writing back saying she had been proposed to by 3 men on the same day; Dr. John Seward, Quincey P. Morris, and Mr. Arthur Holmwood, who she loves. She said yes to Authur Holmwood.
 * Dr. Seward runs a mental hospital, and has a very interesting patient named Renfield
 * All three men who proposed to Lucy are old friends and want to celebrate the engagement.

**Chapter 6**
-Mina goes to a seashore town called Whitby with Lucy. They heard of many ghost stories, the most interesting being about the ghostly "White Lady". Mina hasnt heard from Harker in a month and is worried. -Dr Sewards patient, Renfield, has an odd habbit of catching and eating flys and spiders. He feeds the flies to the spiders, and now has a Sparrow he lured through the window to feed the spiders to. Renfield keeps a journal of every flie and spider he feeds to the animals. Renfield also starts eating the sparrows. -Mina worries about Lucy, who begins sleepwalking and acting weird. -A storm is approaching, and a mysterious ship is out at sea. The old man who befriends Mina says he will die soon.

**Chapter 7**
-Mina pasted newspaper articles in her journal.The articles talk about the storm, which became very rough. The town all stood around and watched the ship expecting it to wreck, but as it got closer, they realized the captain was was dead and tied to the wheel. The ship made is to the beach safely. -The ships cargo was a bunch of wooden boxes filled with dirt. The captain kept a log of their journey. Throughout the journey, crew members keep disappearing and the remaining ones go crazy because they claim to see "it", which is killing the men. -The old man is found dead of a broken neck the day of the captains funeral.

**Chapter 8**
-Mina wakes up one night to find Lucy gone. Frightened, she runs outside to find Lucy at their favorite bench. from a distance, Mina sees Lucy sitting there with a dark figure bending over her, but as she gets closer, the fugure is gone. Mina pins a shawl arounf Lucy and takes her home. -Lucy begs Mina to keep the adventure a secret because her mother is ill and shouldn't worry. Mina believes she accidentally poked Lucy with the pin that night because she has 2 small holes on her neck. Mina now locks their bedroom door at night and keeps the key around her wrist. -A bat is seen outside Lucy and Minas window every night. -One night, Lucy goes for a walk alone and finds Lucy hanging out the window when she arrives home. A bat is sitting next to her and she is holding her throat. -Lucy becomes pale and weak. -Mina finally recieves a letter from Harker and discovers that he had a terrible brain fever and has been in a hospital. He tells her to come to him and marry him, so she packs up and leaves. -Dr Sewards patient Renfield escaped to visit his "master", but is caught and taken back to the asylum.

**Chapter 9**
-Mina writes to Lucy to tell her about their wedding. Harker gave Mina his journal but she said she wouldn't read it unless she needed to. ; -Lucy returns to London but starts having weird dreams and is becoming sick again. She also complains of a bat at her window at night. -Lucys fiance Arthur asks Dr Seward to come see Lucy, who is getting worse. Arthur mist leave her to check on his sick father. -Dr Seward can't find anything wrong with Lucy, other that the fact that she has very little blood. He asks his friend, Dr.Van Helsing to come diagnose her.

**Chapter 10**
-Seward writes to Arthur saying that Lucy is't well but he doesn't want to worry him -Van Helsing decides that Lucy needs a blood transplant, and Dr. Seward volunteers. Arthur arrives before the transfusion though and decides that he will. After, Lucy looks more alive. -Dr. Seward stays up with Lucy for two nights and is also working in the asylum. When Lucy sees him, she tells him to sleep on the couch outside her room, which was a big mistake.The next morning, Lucy is worse than ever and Dr. Seward donates blood to her. -Van Helsing makes Lucy a necklace of garlic and spreads it around her room.

**Chapter 11**
-The garlic works, but one morning Dr. Seward and Van Helsing arrive at the house to find that Lucy's mother had removed all the flowers. They find her worse than ever and Van Helsing then gives her his blood. -At the local zoo, a tall, pale man with a pointed beard was seen near the wolf cage, and now one of the wolves has escaped. The wolf returns though with cut wounds oon its body. -At the asylum, Renfiellood attacks Dr Seward with a knife and cuts his wrist. He then starts licking up the blood and saying "blood is the life" -At Lucy's home one night, Lucy is woken up from the sound of flapping outside her window. Her mother then comes to calm her down and lays in bed with her. They hear a crash and look over to see a wolf had stuck its head through the glass and ran off. Lucy's mom died of terror after ripping the garlic off lucy's neck. Someone also drugs the servants, leaving Lucy alone to fend for herself.

-Dr. Seward and Van Helsing arrive that day to see the mess. Lucy needs another blood transfusion but they don't know who could do it. Quincey Morris then walks in with a letter from Arthur and does the tranfusion. -Dr. Seward complains that Van Helsing wont share his diagnosis of Lucy. -Dr. Seward recieves a letter from Dr. Hennessey, reporting on Rensfield's condition. He had broken out again and attacked some men delivering wooden boxes. -Mina writes to Lucy telling her that Harkers boss had died and left them his entire fortune. -Arthurs father died, and Van Heslsing said he should come because Lucy is dying. Her teeth are becoming sharp and the bite wound on her neck has finally disappeared. -Arthur walks into the room and Lucy, in a vampire-ish way tells him to come kiss her, but Van Helsing hold him back. Once the moment passes, he allows him to kiss her and she asks Van Helsing to protect Arthur from her.
 * Chapter 12**

-Lucy is dead. Van Helsing puts a crucifix and some garlic in her coffin. After the funeral, he plans on cutting off Lucy's head and taking out her heart, but that never happens. -A servant removed the crucifix from the coffin. -Harker and Mina are walking through London one day when Harker sees a man and freaks out. He believes that it was a younger version of the Count. -In the neighborhood of Hampstead, children were going missing, and when found, they had cuts on their throats.The children claimed that they had been with a "bloofer lady", or "beautiful lady".
 * Chapter 13**

-Harker has been acting weird ever since the incident in London, so Mina decides to read his journal. She decides to type out what she read so others could read it. -Van Helsing asks Mina if he can see any letters she recieved from Lucy, and Mina says he can come. When he arrives, she gives him Harker and her own journal. -To much of Harker's relief, Van Helsing says he is not crazy and everything in his journal is true. He asks Harker to help fight Draclua, to which he happily agrees. -The bites on he children's necks look identical to the one's found on Lucy. Van Helsing believes the bites were made by Lucy herself.
 * Chapter 14**

-Nobody believes Van Helsing's theory, so they all go to spend the night in the churchyard. They open Lucy's coffin and are shocked to find her missing. -Later that night, they see something and find a child dumped in some leaves. -Van Helsing takes Dr. Seward to Lucy's grave one more time and she is in the coffin. He then realizes that she is a vampire and wants to kill her, but Van Helsing wants Arthur to know before they do. -Van Helsing, Quincey, and Arthur all go to the graveyard to cut off Lucy's head, but of course Arthur objects. They still go though.
 * Chapter 15**

-.Once they arrive, they find Lucy's body is again gone. Hav Helsing places a communion wafer in the door of the tomb to keep Lucy from going back in. Then they wait. -Lucy soon shows up, looking beautiful and vampire-ish. She is carrying a small child, but once she sees the men, she drops it and calls out to Arthur. Van Helsing keeps him from going to her though. -Van Helsing removes the wafer, allowing Lucy into the tomb where she goes back to "sleep". He places the wafer back to trap her in and plans to come back to decapitate her. -When they return, Arthur is the one who stabs the steak through Lucy's heart. The Van Helsing cuts off her head and fils her mouth with garlic. -They meet soon to plan their assasination of Draclula.
 * Chapter 16**

-Mina and Harker meet everyone at Dr. Sewards house. Mina and Dr. Seward exchange journals and read them. -Dr. Seward starts to think that Renfield's actions may have something to do with Dracula. -Harker is determined, so he traces back the 50 boxes of dirt that the Count delivered to Carfax.
 * Chapter 17**

-Mina asks to visit Renfield, and Renfield is very nice to her. He tells her not to stay at Dr. Sewards house but won't explain why. -The group has a meeting about how they will go about killing Dracula. They have technology on their side and many anti-vampire weapons, but Dracula has the abilty to disappear and contol animals. Quincey sees a bat sitting in the window during their meeting. -Their task is to find the 50 boxes of dirt that the Count sleeps in and eaither kill Dracula is he's there of pour holy water on them to keep him from sleeping there. -The men send Mina to bed and decide to go check out Dracula's lair in Carfax. Before they leave, Renfield stops them and warns them to let him leave or else.
 * Chapter 18**

- Dr. Seward doesn't allow Renfield to leave because he fears he would go help Dracula. When they arrive at the house, they find it filled with dust and there are rats everywhere. They only find 29 of the 50 boxes that should be there. When they arrive at Dr. Seward's for the night, they notice Mima looks a little pale. -Mina writes in her journal that she ios upset because nobody will tell her about the night before. She also said she saw a mist when she had looked out the window and when she fell asleep, she had a weird dream about something in her room with red eyes. -The nixt night, she asks Dr. Seward for sleeping pills to help her sleep.
 * Chapter 19**

-Harker goes to visit the two men who Renfield attacked delivering the boxes. After a bribe, they tell him that they moved 9 boxes to a house in Piccadilly, which had recently been sold. He then talks to the lawyor who sold the house in Piccadilly and asks to know the name of the person who had bought it, but the lawyor won't tell. He says he willsent a letter to Arthur telling him only. -The house was sold to a foreign man named "Count De Ville". -Thje group wants to break into the house to see how many boxes are actually there, but this will be very difficult. For now, they are all working on different tasks, getting materials and info they might need to kill Dracula. -Dr. Seward is told that Renfield had a terrible accident and is covered in blood.
 * Chapter 20**

-Dr. Seward find Renfield laying in a puddle of blood.His skull is fractured and they drill a hole in his skull to relieve the pressure. He tells them that Dracula asked to come into his room 2 days ago, and Renfield let him, but the next day he just came in and when Renfield saw what Dracuka was doing to Mina, he tried to stop him that day and Dracula threw him to the ground. -Everyone now knows that Dracula is after Mina, so they rush to her room to find Harker unconcsious and Dracula standing over Mina, making her suck his blood from a hole in his chest. They scare Dracula away with holy wafers and Mina is now aware and they wake Harker up. -Everyone is terrified and Dracula now has full comtrol on Mina.
 * Chapter 21**

-Mina decides that if she becomes a vampire, she will either kill herself or Van Helsing will. They want to try and wait til they kill Dracula though, because if they do, her curse will die with him. -They plan on breaking into the Piccadilly house and putting holy water in the dirt on the boxes to keep Dracula out of them. They decide to do this by getting Arthur to hire a locksmith to open the house, and just walking in casually so no one will get suspicious. -Van Helsing puts garlic and other vampire weapons in Mina's room. He tried to bless her with holy water and communion wafers but when he places a wafer on her head, it burns her. -After a group prayer, the group sets out to sterilize the boxes. They start with the Carfax house and then head to the Piccadilly house. -Once there, they find that only one box is missing.
 * Chapter 22**

-Van Helsing starts researching the old Dracula, and finds out that before he became a vampire, he was actually quite smart, but once he changed,m his brain stopped developing. -The guys get a telegram from Mina saying she saw Dracula leave Carfax. They are all excited fro the chance to kill hi and prepare their weapons. -Dracula appears and Harker lunges at him with a knife, but Dracula dodges. The other men scare Dracula away with crucifixes, and Dracula dsisappears, but not before he reminds them that he has control over Mina. -Mina feels that Dracula's influence over her is weak at daw and at night. Van Helsing hypnotizes Mina and they can tell where he and and what he's doing. They find out he is asleep on a boat. -Van Helsing worries because if Mina dies before Dracula is killed, she wil become a vampire.
 * Chapter 23**

-Mina is relieved to find out that Dracula has left the building. Harker is instructed to watch oer her. -They all meet to find out how to get to Dracula. They assume he is on a ship that has already taken off. They decide to take a train to beat Dracula to Transylvania. -The men decide to keep Mina out of the plans, just in case Dracula can hear of figure out the plans through her. They also want Harker to stay behind with her. -Mina tells Harker to tell her nothing of the plans. She to believed Dracula could somehow get them from her. -Mina tells the group tp take her with them, even if she knows none of their plans. She doesn't want the Count to do something and Harker being the only one to watch her. Van Helsing makes all the arrangements and the others make their wills, just in case.
 * Chapter 24**

-Mina calls the group together to make sure everyone is ok with killing her if she becomes a vamppire. She then has the group read her fburial service just in case it's her last chance to hear it. Everyone becomes sad. -The group arrives at Varna, and they get constant updates on the ships whereabouts. Van Helsing hypnotizes Mina in the evenings to check on Dracula. -9 days later, they recieve a letter that the ship is close. -The ship never comes, but they are then told that it arrived at another port. The next train to that port leaves the next morning. -Mina stops feeling the Counts influence. They believe he has figured out the hypnotizing and had called it off.
 * Chapter 25**

Van helsing hypnotizes Mina again and she hears oars. Dracula has gotten out of his box, but is still in the water. -When the team arrives at the new port, they find out that the box was given to a group of Slovaks to be taken down a river, but nobody knows what river. -Mina does some research and decides the best river for Dracula is probably the Sereth river. The group is very pleaased with her discovery. -Quincey and Dr. Seward follow Dracula by horseback, Harker and Arthur by river, and Van Helsing and Mina go straight to his castle. Harker isn't very pleased about Mina going to the castle. He has harsh memories of the place. -Harker and Arthur ask every boat they pass if they've seen a cargo ship and discover that it is way ahead going very fast. They also get in a tangle with some rocks, but no major damage was done. -Mina enjoys the countryside. When hypnotized again, nothing is revealed. The link between Mina and Dracula is pretty much gone.
 * Chapter 26**

-Van Helsing fears Mina is getting more Vampire-ish. -Once in sight of the castle, Mina and Van Helsing stop for the night to sleep. Van Helsing draws a circle around them and places communion wafers aronfd them to protect themselves. That night, the 3 vampire women show up but cannot pass throught the circle. The next morning, the horses are dead and Mina will not wake. -That morning, Dr. Seward sees a group loading a wagon and hurrying off to the castle. They must being carrying Dracula's box. -Van Helsing leaves Mina and goes to the castle. He finds the 3 Vampire women and kills them like he killed Lucy. He also puts some Holy wafers in Dracula's grave so he can never sleep there again -Mina is awake when Van Helsing returns, and they wait to ambush the wagon containing Dracula. Theest of the group is following the wagon. When the wagon approaches, they attack it and Quincey gets stabbed by one of the wagon drivers. They knock over Dracula's box and Quincey stabs him in the heart. He turns to dusk and blows away. Quincey lives long enough to see the red scar from on Mina's forehead disappear. -Seven years later, Harker and Mina have a son, named after all the men who helped kill the Count. They call him Quincey.
 * Chapter 27**