Guitarras

LICEO POLITÉCNICO “ANDES”
FUNDACIÓN DUOC UC
English Department

DRACULA
BY Bram Stoker

In the spring of 1875, Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania, on a business visit to the home of Count Dracula. Jonathan does not really want to go because in a few months, he is getting married to his beautiful Mina, and he does not want to leave her.

While he is staying in Castle Dracula, hekeeps a diary. And every day he has more and more terrible things to write. Why Does he see Count Dracula only at night?. Why can´t he see Count Dracula in the mirror?. And Who are the three beautiful women, with their red mouths and long sharp teeth, that come to his room at night?.

At home in ENGLAND, Mina is staying with her friend Lucy in a town by the sea. She waits for Jonathan´sletter, but they do not come, and Mina is afraid. Perhaps Jonathan is ill, or in danger….

Mina is not afraid for herself, of course, for her friend Lucy. What danger can there possibly be for two young women in a quiet English seaside town?.

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Jonathan harker´s diary
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Count Dracula

My story begins about seven years ago, in 1875. My name is JonathanHarker, and I live and work in London. My job is to buy and sell houses for other people. One day a letter arrived for me from a very rich man who lived in Transylvania. He wanted to buy a house in England and he needed my help. The man was Count Dracula, and I agreed to help him.
I found a house for him, and he asked me to take all the papers for it to Transylvania. I was not very pleasedabout this. I was planning to get married in the autumn, and I did not want to leave my beautiful Mina.
“But you must go Jonathan” she said. “The Count is rich, and perhaps, he will give you more work later”.
So I agreed to go. I did not know then of the terrible danger which waited for me in Transilvania. And so, on 4th May I arrived at a little town called Bistritz. Transilvania was astrange and beautiful country. There were mountains, trees and rivers everywhere. And somewhere high in the mountains was the Count´s Home, Castle Dracula. I had six hours to wait before the coach came to take me there, so I went into a little hotel. Inside the hotel it was warm and friendly. The people there were all laughing and talking. “Where are you going?”, they asked me.
“To CastleDracula” I replied.
Suddenly the room was silent and everyone turned to look at me. I could not understand why they all looked afraid.
“Don´t go there”, someone said.
“But I have to”, I answered. “It is business”.

They began to talk again, but they were no longer laughing. Slowly, the hotel keeper´s wife took the gold cross from her neck and put it into my hand. “Take this”, she said.“There is danger at Castle Dracula. Perhaps this will help you”.
When the coach arrived and I got into it, a crowd of people came to watch, and I heard the word “vampire”.
The coach travelled up into the mountains. Higher and higher it went, faster and faster. The sun was bright, but above the trees was snow on the mountain tops. Then suddenly the sun went down behind the mountains andeverywhere was dark. In the forest around us, the wolves were howling. I t was a terrible sound. Suddenly the coach stopped. A small carriage came down the narrow road on the right. Four black horses were pulling it , and the driver was dressed in black, with a black hat pulled down over his face.
“Where is the Englishman” he said. “I have come from Castle Dracula”.
He looked strange,standing there in the moonlight, and suddenly I was afraid. But it was too late. I could no go back now.
Soon we were on our way to Castle Dracula. The mountains were all around us and the moon was behind black clouds. I could see nothing, but I could still hear the wolves. The horses went faster and faster, and the driver laughed wildly.
Suddenly the carriage stopped. I opened the door...