Purpose of the blog.

!Hello everyone!, this blog is a space created to everyone who’s interested on knowledge behind the classroom, or to everyone who may be a little lost and doesn't know which was the latest workshop that teacher Yela sent us, and is also about other workshops in others years, like workshops where the theme was the movie “Trainspotting”, and the book: “The bottle Imp”, but we have to make it clear that this blog will be focus on “Dracula’s story’’ and the work of this fourth period. You will also see some cartoons and other kinds of things on this blog, we hope you wouldn´t use some web translator to make your works, make it worth by yourself, please be welcome, and enjoy it.

Dracula's book, our thinking

Dracula's Book

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Authors of each work

THE PEOPLE THAT DID THE BLOG WORK:

AGREDO SAENZ JUAN CAMILO: 
 -SUMMARIES: CHAPTER 3, CHAPTER 4, CHAPTER 5, CHAPTER 6.
 -COMMENTARY: CHAPTER 9

HERNANDEZ CORDOBA DIANA MARCELA:
 -SUMMARIES: CHAPTER 9
 -COMMENTARY: CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 2
 -GRAMMAR REVIEW
 -COMMENTARY ABOUT TRAINSPOTTING

MUÑOZ ANACONA JORMAN ALEXIS:
 -COMMENTARY: CHAPTER 3, CHAPTER 4, CHAPTER 5, CHAPTER 6
 -SOME PHOTOS ABOUT DRACULA'S BOOK

LOPEZ GOMEZ RICHARD:
 -COMMENTARY: CHAPTER 7, CHAPTER 8
 -SOME IMAGES ABOUT DRACULA'S BOOK
 -SHORT SUMMARY ABOUT TRAINSPOTTING

QUIÑONES DORADO JHONNY ANDRES:
 -SUMMARY: CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 2, CHAPTER 7, CHAPTER 8
 -SOME IMAGES ABOUT DRACULA'S BOOK
 -POST ALL IN THE BLOG
 -VENN DIAGRAM TRAINSPOTTING (WITH AGREDO)
 -UPLOAD THE BOOKS
 -POST THE SUMMARY OF "THE BOTTLE IMP"

Summaries Dracula's Book

Chapter 1: "The road to Dracula's Castle"

The story began with the presentation of the lawyer Jonathan Harker, who lived in london. Harker not only was a lawyer, he also use to found big houses to rich people. One day, Harker received a letter from Transylvania, it was from a man called Count Dracula. Dracula invited Harker to his castle, but Harker didn't wanted to go, but his girlfriend Mina told him that he should go to do business with Dracula, Harker accepted.

Then, Harker traveled to Transylvania and he arrived to Bistriz, Harker was waiting the carriage to go to the Dracula's castle in a inn. 

In the inn, nobody spoke english, the innkeeper spoke some German, Harker asked about Count Dracula and the people was very scared because they listened the name, the people said to Harker that Dracula was a vampire, but Harker didn't believed it, Harker decided that he had go to the Dracula'Castle, the innkeeper gave him a gold cross to protect him.

The carriage to go to the Dracula's castle arrived to the inn and Harker rode on the carriage, then, the travel began and the road of the mountain was very dark, then Harker rode on in other carriage (this carriage was of Count Dracula) and later he arrived to the Dracula´s Castle.

Map of Transylvania:

The innkeeper and Harker:

The road to the Dracula's Castle:

Chapter 2: "A prisoner in the castle"

When Harker arrived to the Dracula's Castle he saw a big wooden door, Harker listened that the door was opened and the Count Dracula received him.

Then, Harker entered to the castle, he saw many rooms, lamps, but almost not had windows, in other room, Harker saw a table with many food, Dracula invited him to take all that he want, Dracula was very strong, he had the skin cold and he was very gentlemanly.

Harker went to his room to slepp, in the next day, Dracula wasn't in the castle but he left Harker to walk inside the castle, in the evening the Count Dracula arrived to the castle and he spoke with Harker about the house that dracula want to buy.

Then, in the morning, Harker woke up and he was looking for a mirror because he want to shaved, Harker cut him and Dracula arrived to his room, his eyes seemed like fire, showed a sharpteeth but Dracula touched the golden cross of Harker and Dracula calmed down, Harker was very scared and he asked himself why he couldn't see the face of Dracula in the mirror.

The time passed and Harker believed that he was a prisoner of Count Dracula. 

Mr. Harker and Count Dracula in the wooden door:

Harker and Dracula with the mirror:

CHAPTER 3: "THE VAMPIRES"

Jhonatan only saw the count at night, he felt very strange because with every night that passes more deeply and dominated he felt on Count’s power. One day he found an unlocked door, so he walk in and found a room with a couch, he felt very tired, so he layed down on it; when he woke up it was dark, but he could saw the shapes of three woman’s, he thought they were beautiful, and then, he felt the desire of touch then, they went up of him and they started to touch him with their sharp teeth, but strangely he can`t move, suddenly a man's shape appear in the dark and saved him; at the next day he woke up at his room, and the count advised him that he was going on a trip. He waited until the next day, when the count came back at down, he went inside his room, took the stairs that went down the castle and found a basement full of boxes, boxes of wood, and in one of them, was he, the Count, he was on one of the boxes and he smells like blood, he heard steps near, so he run fast, and he realized that the count was leaving to his new house at England, and also realized that he must have to scape, and do it quickly.

The wifes of Count Dracula:

The Count Dracula in the coffin:

CHAPTER 4: "A VISIT TO HYTHE"

In England, Mina was very worried about her husband, so a friend of her, Lucy, invited her to his house in “Hyde”, one night, both of them were slept, or that’s what it seems like, until suddenly Mina woke and saw Lucy walking sleep, fast, Mina took her to the bed, but this repeated every night; another night the mistress saw a ship arriving to the town, she told them at the next day, and that same night Mina didn't reach Lucy before she leave the house, so she woke up quickly and look out the window, and saw a tall and black dressed men with his shaping teeth on Minas throat. At the next morning Lucy woke up very sick, and pale; her husband called a old friend, the Dr. Van Helsing, he tried to help her to feel a Little better, with transfusions of blood, and that was working for her, but strangely every night she used to woke up to saw the moon and the birds of the night, unfortunately Mina didn’t have anything else to do on Hyde, so she took a train fast to Budapest to found her beloved Jhonatan, where she found he was pale and thin, like sick, and that they were on danger, they married in Budapest. But at the time they came back to London, they realized of something amazing, the count Dracula was on London that meant that London was in great danger.

MINA THOUGHT THAT SHE SAW A WHITE FACE AND 2 RED EYES:

LUCY CRYING:

MINA AND HARKER IN THE STREET:

CHAPTER 5: "HOW LUCY DIED"

Lucy and Arthur arrived to Budapest, and the treatment began with the help of a very dear friend, the Dr. Van Helsing. The treatment was secretly to realize if she was or not a Vampire, Van Helsing gave her a blood transfusion and the next day she was lucid, she told them that one night a man asked her if he could get inside, she let him...and...That’s all, she doesn't remember more. That night Van Helsing set all the room with garlic and a garlic collar over Lucy's neck. Sadly she died that night, she was found without her garlic collar, tried to “bite” her husband...but die peacefully.

TRYING HELP LUCY WITH BLOOD:

LUCY DIE IN THE BED:

CHAPTER 6: "THE BEAUTIFUL LADY OF HYTHE"

In this chapter we can see a violent woman murdering without judging, our friends became really suspicious because of how the crimes looks like so began to investigate and realize that the mysterious lady was Lucy, this was very hurt full for Arthur. But they must finish with the murders, so they went to the graveyard and look for Lucy´s grave, open de wooden box and saw Lucy…in the worst way imaginable, they finish her quickly…

LUCY BECAME IN A VAMPIRE:

LUCY IN A COFFIN:

CHAPTER 7: "THE HOUSE OF THE VAMPIRE"

All knew that they were in danger; they knew that Dracula want to attack them, and then Van Helsing proposed attack the Count Dracula, all asked to Mr. Harker where was the Dracula’s house, but Harker can’t remember, he thought that the count was erased his memory, they went to search some papers to know the location of the Dracula’s house, when they arrived to Harker’s house, they couldn’t find they papers, maybe Dracula was stolen the papers, then Helsing proposed to Harker that he can hypnotize so then Harker will can remember. The hypnosis it worked and Harker told Helsing how to arrive to the dracula’s house. Then they went to search the house, they asked in purfleet station about the house and they went to the Dracula’s house, they described the house, said them that the house was cold, had dust, etc. When they found the boxes the holy bread was placed on the earth inside. Count was come and all was frightened, they tried to escape, the Count was very angry, all ran to the station to saw how was mina, when they arrived to the Harker’s house, the saw the Count Dracula with mina, he was making her drinking his blood, and Dracula drank the mina’s blood too.

HOLY BREAD IN THE DRACULA'S COFFIN:

WHEN DRACULA HAD MINA IN HIS POSSESION:

CHAPTER 8: "THE FLIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE"

Dracula was returning to his country, in Transylvania he can be fine, all saw a big box in a big boat, inside the box was the Count Dracula, Helsing said that Dracula can’t travel in water without help, but in a boat is easy. Harker thought to travel in a boat but Helsing said that they will search Dracula travel in earth, Mina want to go with them to search Dracula, then, the trip began, time passed and then Helsing asked mina about Dracula, and she said that the count was arrived to Galatz.

CHAPTER 9: "THE RETURN TO CASTLE DRACULA"

After live Mina resting on the hotel on Galatz, being nearer, and nearer to Dracula. The continued trying to find out, where and when Draucla will be, so the woud can prepare their master plan. When they find out where Dracula was going, they decided to attack him before he get to his castle, so they would kill him, and release Mina of his power on her. They took differents ruts; Arthur, and Mr. Harker went up the river trying to go after him, and the profesor, with Mina went by land to Dracula’s castle. 

Profesor kept hypnotizing Mina everyday, trying to recibe some new information ho will help they on they search, but everyday, it was the same. The winter and snow has came, and it covered already all the mountains, at the time that Mina, and the profesor, were camping, and with aññ the troubles with the vampire womens of Dracula, they were safe. 

Finally, Van Helsing went into the castle, and when he found the principial tomb of Dracula, he sprayed holly watter on it, so he would never enter againd. And then he killed Dracula’s wifes, with a stake, before cut their heds, untill they were gone. Van Helsing went out the castle, when Mina called him, cause of his husband was landing, anda when she found out that Dracula, was coming soon to his castle. 

When they realiced that the night was falling down, Arthur and Jonathan were closer and closer to the carriage where Dracula was, and suddenly they reached the cart. They had a fight with the driver, untill they cpould pulled the man down from the cart. Daylight had almost gone, and then, they knew that it was the time to destroy, and kill the Vampire. 

They pushed the wooden box down, the it broke open. Inmediatelly, at Dracula’s last shine of light on his face, Jonathan took his long Sharp stake, and he went through his heart with it… Then, Arthur’s knife cut the vampire’s throat. Dracula’s body, fall off on the red and cover of blody snow. The Vampire, finally were dead. 

 KILLING DRACULA:

Comments about the chapters of Dracula's Book.

Chapter 1: "The road to Dracula's Castle"

On this chapter the story it's very simple, it tell us and let us know about the life of a lawyer who’s looking a house for Count Dracula. And there´s when the story started, on the road that Mr. Harker did to Count´s castle, in Transylvania. The story it's very enveloping since this chapter, because you can see and being expectant about what´s going on next on Mr. Harker's trip and Count Dracula’s plans, so you have to be focus and pending about the Reading.

Chapter 2: "A prisoner in the castle"

On chapter two, the story turns ten times even more enveloping than the first one, because it shows us how Mr. Harker arrived to Dracula’s castle, and how Dracula received his guest by unlocked him on his castle. Then, after days and days there, Mr. Harker started to notice some weird things on the castle and, or course, on Count Dracula. So, it is really interesting because we, as Mr. Jonathan Harker see Dracula like the vampire he is, and we started to know so many things about him and this secrets and later, it would be very helpful for Jonathan.

Chapter 3: "The vampires"

The chapter was very interesting since Mr. Harker started to discover lots of things about the castle. In this chapter he also discovered important things about who’s Dracula and that he wasn't alone, that there was more people inside. In this chapter specially, there were lots of discoveries and fears about Count Dracula´s castle and the ‘’persons’’ who lived in it. Then Mr. Harker entered to a locked room and he discovered 3 vampire woman, who tried to take advantage of him, that's when he discovered a lot more about Count Dracula.

Chapter 4: " A visit to Hythe"

This chapter began with a look of the history of Mr. Harker and Count Dracula, also it shows us how the story it’s turning bad from Mr. Harker’s friends and his own girlfriend, Mina, so she became a very important character in the history. This chapter is interesting because it shows the outcome for every character and the papers that they have and how the history evolves.

Chapter 5: "How Lucy died"

This chapter is very interesting since it's about an attack of a Vampire; in this chapter five speaks about how Lucy was dying. It is very interesting as Lucy was falling ill, and as they examined it and they were not finding badly at all in her. Also it is very interesting as Lucy was going out of its sleep bed and alone day's journey and was beginning having rare sleep. In this chapter five we can know how Lucy was attacked by a vampire who broke the windows of the quarter were found Lucy and kill her.

Chapter 6: "The beautiful lady of Hythe"

This chapter is very revealing since there are a begun by an attack a few children where the children say that mysterious woman I attack them. It is very interesting like Jonathan hacker and they go Van Helsing it is to speak about Dracula and as it is possible to kill. I liked very much this chapter since Lucy is where they realize q it is got up of its coffin. It is very interesting as they did to kill Lucy since to kill a vampire a stake fixed in the heart is needed and cut the head to them so that you do not set sail any more. I liked this chapter very much an attack one begins insinuating to Dracula also me taste as Lucy's history was developing when it turned in vampire and as it was killed so that it was not attacking any more.

CHAPTER 7: "THE HOUSE OF THE VAMPIRE"

As in this chapter of this famous story and Jonathan and Professor van after Count Dracula after jar to mine at home to protect it Jonathan and company are directed to the home of the Earl, Professor Van Helsing hypnotizes Jonathan so you can remember where the house of Count Dracula is as it had erased the memories. jonathan remember where the house is near a train station, when they reach the place it is almost evening and manage to enter the boxes and are each placed a holy bread least one after the count back and run away quickly, They manage to escape and return to mine but the count goes ahead and makes him drink his blood manage to rescue the Count quarry flees back to his home in a boat. but now mine danger and if not just to be a vampire Count mine's where ends this chapter, a very interesting chapter with action and drama now things get more interesting.

CHAPTER 8: "THE FLIGHT OF THE VAMPIRE"

This chapter is much shorter, it is one of the shortest chapters and here the four friends go to the country of Count Dracula all with the hope of saving mine. in this chapter you do not see much start making plans to kill the earl since he fled to his country by boat they take the decision to go by land to reach faster than the count and end before it reaches your castle and recovers in the end choose to go with mine and she wants to help the teacher once again mesmerize mine to know where is Dracula and the chapter ends there. Very short but interesting and almost reaches the end.

CHAPTER 9: "THE RETURN TO THE CASTLE DRACULA"

I think that this chapter it´s so much important that the other eight chapters, but I also must say that it’s the great end of the story, it’s the great way the god defeats evil. Also think that is classic romantic when they finish count Dracula and the author describes the passages through the mountains. This one was a short but “fully” and classic story about god against evil.

Short Summary About Trainspotting (movie)

Beginning the movie, start talking about a “good” and “normal” life, the movie has five principal characters, are “sick boy”, “spud”, “begbie”, “tommy” and “renton”.

The movie is based in the life into the drugs, sex and bad life, all of the characters consume drugs except “begbie”, and “tommy” (more later he will consume drugs).

“Renton” and “Sick boy” tried to forget about the drugs, but later they return to the drugs, but in a higher level, more later they knew a “guy”, who sells them a pound of coke, or “Charlie”, at the end, “Renton is sit at the living and he just grab the brick of coke and walk away, when “stick boy” wakes up he realize that his “friend” has stolen the brick and explode in rage.

Comment About Trainspotting (movie)

On the movie, how we can see, the ‘’friendship’’ it's a very important and subjective team for talk about. All people, even the ones who denied it, want, someday, find someone special who can be with us most of timeshare, support, and enjoy beauty things in life in our company. But sometimes, we don't see the right people right besides us and we put our trust, love and support in persons who doesn´t deserve it, and that's not good for us, at all. In the movie, we can see how ‘’Best Friends’’ get apart for drugs deals, problems, addiction and money, and that's the perfect example to see that we can´t go around thinking that everybody could be our truly friend, we have to be carefull with the persons we put our trust on, and who we call ‘’friends’’, because those ‘’friends’’ will hurt us if it's good for them, they would lie to us and get us in problems just for safe his own skin and that's not what we're looking in a good friend. So, we can´t follow the example of the movie, refer to the friendship, we have to wake up and think better about it before choose that person we want to be with, we don't have to follow them, or be sad because we may can´t find the person we want son, we have to be happy cause the person who will deserve it it's going to arrive soon on our lifes and with them, happiness, fun and beauty things will come, but it depends just of us, always of us and what we want for our life.

Venn Diagram (Renton and Crhis)

Relation between 2 characters in the life of the drugs.

The bottle imp (Book download)

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Summary of the book "The bottle imp"

Keawe, a poor Native Hawaiian, buys a strange bottle from a sad, elderly gentleman who credits the bottle with his fortune. He promises that an imp residing in the bottle will also grant Keawe his every desire.

Of course, there is a catch — the bottle must be sold at a loss, i.e. for less than its owner originally paid, or else it will simply return to him. The currency used in the transaction must also be in coin (not paper money or a bank cheque/check). The bottle may not be thrown or given away. All of these commands must be transmitted from each seller to each purchaser. If an owner of the bottle dies without having sold it in the prescribed manner, that person's soul will burn for eternity in Hell.

The bottle was said to have been brought to Earth by the Devil and first purchased by Prester John for millions; it was owned by Napoleon and Captain James Cook and accounted for their great successes. By the time of the story the price has diminished to fifty dollars.

Keawe buys the bottle and instantly wishes his money to be refunded, to convince himself he has not been suckered. When his pockets fill with coins, he realizes the bottle does indeed have unholy power. He finds he cannot abandon it or sell it for a profit, so he wishes for his heart's desire: a big, fancy mansion on a landed estate. Upon his return to Hawaii, Keawe's wish has been granted, but at a price: his beloved uncle and cousins have been killed in a boating accident, leaving Keawe sole heir to his uncle's fortune. Keawe is horrified, but uses the money to build his house. After explaining the risks, he sells the bottle to a friend.

Keawe lives a happy life, but there is something missing. Walking along the beach one night, he meets a beautiful woman, Kokua. They soon fall in love and become engaged. Keawe's happiness is shattered on the night of his betrothal, when he discovers that he has contracted the then-incurable disease of leprosy. He must give up his house and wife, and live in Kalaupapa—a remote community for lepers—unless he can recover the bottle and use it to cure himself.

Keawe begins this quest by attempting to track down the friend to whom he sold the bottle, but the friend has become suddenly wealthy and left Hawaii. Keawe traces the path of the bottle through many buyers and eventually finds a Haole of Beritania Street, Honolulu. The man of European ancestry has both good and bad news for Keawe: (a) he owns the bottle and is very willing to sell, but (b) he had only paid two cents for it. Therefore, if Keawe buys it, he will not be able to resell it.

Keawe decides to buy the bottle anyway, for the price of one cent, and indeed cures himself. Now, however, he is understandably despondent: how can he possibly enjoy life, knowing his doom? His wife mistakes his depression for regret at their marriage, and asks for a divorce. Keawe confesses to her his secret.

His wife suggests they sail, with the bottle, to Tahiti; on that archipelago the colonists of French Polynesia use centimes, a coin worth one-fifth of an American cent. This offers a potential recourse for Keawe.

When they arrive, however, the suspicious natives will not touch the cursed bottle. Kokua determines to make a supreme sacrifice to save her husband from his fate. Since, however, she knows he would never sell the bottle to her knowingly, Kokua is forced to bribe an old sailor to buy the bottle for four centimes, with the understanding that she will secretly buy it back for three. Now Keawe is happy, but she carries the curse.

Keawe discovers what his wife has done, and resolves to sacrifice himself for her in the same manner. He arranges for a brutish boatswain to buy the bottle for two centimes, promising he will buy it back for one, thus sealing his doom. However, the drunken sailor refuses to part with it, and is unafraid of the prospect of Hell. "I reckon I'm going anyway," he says.

Keawe returns to his wife, both of them free from the curse, and the reader is encouraged to believe that they live happily ever after.