Dracula Reaction Paper

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At the end of Dracula I had two different reactions. One was that Dracula died too easily and the other reaction was that the group went through a lot of trouble to kill Dracula. I thought that Dracula knew everything and had powers to avoid getting stabbed in the heart, so I had the reaction that he died too easily, but after I thought about it, I also saw that the group went through a lot of trouble just to find him and then kill him. When Dracula died, I thought that he was killed a little too easily. The group had to go to many different places searching for the boxes, and then searching for Dracula, and when they finally found him all it took for Dracula to be killed was a stab on the heart. I thought that Dracula was all powerful with many powers and strengths, so I thought it would take a little more to kill him. Even though I knew of his weaknesses, since Dracula knows everything I thought he would be able to avoid a stab to the heart and more than one person from the group. However, I also think that it wasn’t easy for the group to kill him because the group had to find all of Dracula’s boxes of earth and then put communion wafers in all of them to prevent him from being safe. The group also had two of their friends bitten to get to Dracula. The group at the end when they killed him also had one of their friends killed so the whole human race could live in peace. Van Helsing also had a lot of determination to resist the female vampire’s temptation and kill them. Arthur Holmwood also had to kill his own fiancé after going through the death of his father. My two reactions kind of contradict themselves in my opinion. I believe this because I think that Dracula died too easily, but I also think that the group went through a lot of trouble. Dracula died from a mere stab in the heart, but the group lost many friends and family, and went through a lot of
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