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DISCUSSION PREPARATION (XIII - XVI) 


 * ACTIVITY**

Theme Role Play: The class will be divided into three groups and each group is to be given a theme. You each pick a scene from this section of the book that you feel illustrates this theme and each group is to be given 3 minutes to rehearse. Then the groups will perform their sections and the discussion leaders will judge each groups performance based upon how well it correlated to the theme, the creativeness of the delivery and how well it was performed. Each performance must be around 45-75 seconds. The best group will be given a prize.


 * DISCUSSION

Factual Questions: ** 1. Why does Van Helsing want to read Lucy’s private papers? 2. What reason does Van Helsing give for laughing on the train? 3. What makes Mina read Jonathan’s diary? 4. How does Lucy regain her purity? 5. What was it that prevented Lucy from entering the tomb? 6. What distinguishes Lucy from the other vampires mentioned thus far?

Interpretive Questions: 1. Why does Lucy only victimize children? 3. What is the role of Renfield? 4. Why don’t Arthur, Seward, and Quincy believe that Lucy is one of the “un-dead”?
 * 2. What is the significance of the quote from Thomas Hood's poem on pg.147?**
 * 5. What does this section outline as the limits to scientific knowledge?**

Evaluative Questions:
 * 1. How might Dracula’s coming relate to the expansion of the British Empire and foreign influence?**
 * 2. How does the language that is used to describe the two different forms of Lucy differ? What is the significance of this? What does this tell us about how Victorian women were viewed?**
 * 3. What does __Dracula__ tell us about the values of the Victorian Society?**
 * 4. What is the significance of the dark and the night in this section and how does this connect with __Macbeth__ and __Strange case of Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde__?**

Other: 1.How do you personally perceive science and its limits? 3. Do you see any connections to __The Lord of the Rings__ in this section? 4. Do you think Stoker's method of writing was an effective way of telling the story in this section? Why or why not? 5. What does the ending of Chapter 16 foreshadow?
 * 2. Is Science the only way to knowing the truth?**