The Historian
Theme:
Suspicion:
Everything is starting to get weird. The creepy librarian is looking for them. The librarian is mysteriously killed after they get some information from him. She finds her dad in a library reading a book about vampires, and the next day he leaves her with garlic and a crucifix, and tells her to go home. She knows there is something her father is not telling her. She finds the letter about how her father is going to look for her mother.
Chapter 20-25
Plot Summary
Protagonist is starting to get closer and closer to the truth. She and Miss Rossi meet at a church where they discuss the maps and the letters written by Professor Rossi. The protagonist and Miss Rossi still talk about the man that was in the library glancing at one of them. Main character figures out that this was a librarian, but she doesn't want to tell Miss Rossi about the interesting mark on his neck. Soon they see the creepy librarian coming into the church and decide to hide. After a few moments, they decide to leave. They are both scared about what the man wants. The teenager thinks that he is after Miss Rossi and that she should stay somewhere else beside her dorm in fear that he might meet her there.
Helen and the the teenager decide to set up a plan to interrogate the creepy gentlemen at the library. Helen uses herself as bait for the individual and goes all the way to the special books collection. She intrigues the man by talking about Rossi's map. Then in a furious gesture he jumps on her and bites her. Helen and the main character hold him down and get information that this guy was a vampire and that Professor Rossi was taken to Dracula's tomb. The next day the teenager finds the creepy librarian dead in the middle of the street with his body twisted. She tells Miss Rossi that she will go to Istanbul to find her father. Miss Rossi wants to go with her.
Later, she travels with her father to Oxford where he has his business meetings and she gets to tour the college. She is showed around by a cute undergraduate student who she feels is kind of cute. She is starting to realize what it's like to talk to guys since she is so sheltered. She finds her father in a library reading some vampire literature. The next day she wakes up in the morning and finds a note from her father saying that he has some last minute business meeting and that she will be accompanied home by the tour guide Stephan Barley. Later she comes home, searches her father's desk and finds an envelope of letters addressed to her. She picks up the letter written six months ago with the words "My Dear Daughter. If you are reading this, forgive me. I have gone to look for your mother" (171).
Journal Friday, November 4, 2011
I'm really starting to like this book. Everything is starting to pull together even though I'm in the middle of the book. So finally, Helen believes the teenager that her illegitimate father's disappearance has something to do with supernatural beings. Helen and the main character figure out that Professor Rossi has been taken to Dracula's tomb. I think it is very weird how the creepy librarian got killed a day after spilling his guts about Rossi's disappearance. They find out that this creepy guy was jealous of Rossi because he wanted to use the maps and that is why he was so anxious to get them. He is murdered in the most brutal way and you wonder what kind of person or thing could have done that. We have all heard of the expression. "Don't shoot the messenger". Well he wasn't shot, but he definitely was in trouble for letting important information get out and he paid for his mistake. I don't exactly know if this guy was a real vampire or he could have been a half vampire. Wow, can't you see I have seen way too many movies and read too many books. I'm a crazy supernatural movie and literature fanatic and I personally think it was a full vampire. A vampire has complete strength and could do that easily, but then again it could be anyone.
I find it great that the main character is getting the chance to visit the college in Oxford. She is given tour by a cute guy and starts to feel a little less sheltered than she was. She visits the library and finds that her father is reading a book about vampire lore instead of attending his meetings. So the question is Were his meetings canceled? Did he skip them? Why was he reading a vampire history book? I know there is definitely something that he is not telling her. The next day I figure out that there is something wrong, when he leaves her a letter with a crucifix and garlic, telling her that she must carry these items with her at all times. I 'm wondering if her father knows where Rossi is and he's going to to Istanbul to save him or if it is one last-minute business meeting. Yeah right! Something is Wrong! Look at the clues. Garlic. Crucifix. The words "Take these with you at all times". He's not trying to convert her or anything. These are things that keep vampires away.
She goes to the library to find the book that her father was reading, but was in a hurry to get home. I noticed something said from the tour guide. During the tour, he was talking about in the medieval times that oxford was loaded with vampires back then, but he explained that it was just lore. So the next day when he takes her to the library before the train station back to Amsterdam, he tells her to hurry up or he will get a stake through his heart. Those words just sounded creepy to me. I wonder if he knows more about vampires than he is owning up to or he is just joking. I partially think that he should be suspected for some reason. I always want to know why did her father send a college guy to go with a high school girl to take her home? I understand that he is paranoid right now and that he wants his daughter to be protected, but I wander if that guy is something more than an average college student. I could be wrong about all my assumptions, but hey I'll figure out the answers. It's like a scientist hoping that their hypothesis will be proven. I hope my assumption or correct if I was way off and I just overestimated this book.
The six month old letter she finds in her father's desk is also interesting. I have yet to read about this letter, but I will because I want to know if her mother's disappearance has something to do with Rossi's disappearance. The beginning of the story never talks about her mother so maybe I will figure out why her mother was taken, and when she was taken to see if there is some sort of correlation with everything happening now.
Recommendation: Likewise in the last blogs, I like this book. Sometimes it's hard to understand where the plot is taking place, but you get the hang of it. This whole thing about Dracula is starting to get more mysterious by the minute. I like to ask myself questions about what I think will happen and I wonder if I'm correct.
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