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Note: The times state when each scene started in the episode (5:00 means this scene started five

minutes into the show). I choose to observe the entire episode for each of my observations for it

to be easier for the reader to understand the storyline.

Relevant Background Information: The observations listed below of my figured world takes

place in Mystic Falls, Virginia in present time. The story line mainly revolves around Elena

Gilbert and the supernatural issues happening in Mystic Falls. The main characters’ goal in each

episode is to protect their town, friends and family. Major events leading up to where my

observations start is that Elena just recently turned in a vampire from having vampire blood in

her system at the time she died in a car accident. Elena has been struggling to cope with her

transition. Also, Elena and her friends went to an island to find the cure for Elena, but runs into

some issues dealing with a powerful immortal being name Silas. In order for the reader to

understand the entire storyline is to start watching from the beginning of the season.

Figured World is a large social structure or sphere that has specific rules and conventions that

is considered normal in the figured world. For example it is normal for a vampire to drink

blood to survive in the TV Series the Vampire Dairies.

Summary of the rules and conventions for appropriate behavior:

I plan to observe three main characters name Elena Gilbert, Damon and Stefan Salvatore.

In the three episodes I choose to observe will consist of Elena coping with the death of her only

adopted brother and how she uses her vampire senses and actions to help deal with her brother’s

death. The other two characters Damon and Stefan will be there along the journey to help Elena

from getting out of control while trying to deal with her brother’s death. The purpose of this

figured world is showing how vampires deal with their emotions even though they are supposed

to be considered dead and evil creatures. In the show the vampires will “turn off” their humanity

to block out painful memories causing them to not care about others, which in turn cause them to

feed on humans, hurting and killing them. It is normal for vampires to turn off their emotions or

humanity once in their lifetime because as a vampire their emotions are heightened. Feeling

simple emotions such as anger and sadness from a traumatic event will cause them to be at their

breaking point. In order to block that, they “turn off” their emotions. You will also see their

different abilities they have as a vampire such as, healing, amazing hearing, speed, and strength.

The communities of practice I will be observing are a group of vampires trying to help

their friend Elena to turn back her humanity and how they will succeed in helping her. When she

turns off her humanity it turns her into someone she is not. I expect Elena to prove to her friends

that she is better off this way and does not need her humanity back after her brother’s death. She

wants to let them know why bother because she has no other family left after her brother.

Actors- An individual that plays a role in a community, whether it is a big or small role. I

choose these specific actors because they played an important roles in understand the

observations.

Comment [C1]: Christina-- Excellent work on this assignment. Your observation notes were very easy to follow, and your inclusion of three separate interviews was interesting. Small formatting correction: Be sure to go back and change the font to 12 pt, Times New Roman. Not that I particularly see this as an issue, but in certain classes having this set as the default for papers is required--so it is always good to get into the habit of doing this now. Give us a bit more context about the people you chose to interview for this project. In a short summary at the beginning of the interview (3-4 sentences max) tell us who you interviewed, why you chose this person, and how this interview impacted your observations. Definitely add some photos of the significant characters/action throughout the show. While I was reading your observations, I kept picturing some of these scenes, so having a visual reference would be really useful. You may consider using the slideshow feature in Wix to add a running selection of relevant photos; this will add both to your assignment one and the overall course portfolio. Ashlyn Walden

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Important Characters:

•Elena Gilbert- The protagonist who falls in love with a vampire name Stefan Salvatore but,

later feels drawn with his brother Damon Salvatore when she becomes a vampire in the last

episode of season 3. This results into a love triangle between Elena and the Salvatore brothers.

Elena is the kind of person who will protect her friends and family before herself. She would

sacrifice herself if it means saving the people she loves. In the serious you will notice how she

will always try to do the right thing and make other characters in the show such as Damon to

make the right choices as well.

•Stefan Salvatore- One of the two main male protagonists. Stefan is a 166-year-old vampire. He

has an older brother, Damon Salvatore. Stefan falls in love with Elena and has a relationship with

her throughout season one to three and the beginning of season four. Stefan is caring,

compassionate, and protective. He does not have the normal personality of a vampire. He does

not like drinking human blood and has a heart and soul compared to other vampires.

•Damon Salvatore- The other main male protagonists, who is a 174 year old vampire. Damon

falls madly in love with Elena causing a love triangle. Damon is Stefan’s older brother. Damon

has an evil personality, but deep down he has a heart for those he cares most about. He is not the

kind of guy who shows his feelings and emotions very easily. Damon does not care about who he

hurts or kills if it is to protect his friends and family. He also does not always make the right

decisions.

•Jeremy Gilbert- Elena Gilbert’s younger brother. He is Elena’s adoptive brother but biological

cousin. He is considered as Elena’s brother because they were both raised by the same parents.

Jeremy has a romantic relationship with Bonnie. Also he is the member of the five (supernatural

hunter). Jeremy is a caring, loving, and strong guy.

•Bonnie Bennett- One of Elena’s childhood best friends who is a witch. Bonnie is a feisty,

empathetic witch who is the one always saving her friends if it means she has to get hurt or

sacrifice herself. She also serves as a counselor when it comes to her friends. Everyone comes to

her for help and advice of life and she always knows the right thing to say. She is selfless,

compassionate, and helpful.

•Caroline Forbes- One of Elena’s child hood best friends who use to be human but later became

a vampire thanks to Katherine Peirce. She is energetic, caring, thoughtful, protective, and self-

less. She is like the mother in her group of friends. Caroline always makes sure everyone is okay

and taken care of. She also tries to be strong for her friends and puts her friends and family

before her.

•Matt Donovan- Elena’s ex-boyfriend and closest guy friend from childhood. He is the sweetest

and most caring guy. He does anything to help protect his friends even though he is just human.

He is always there for Elena to listen to her problems and give the best relationship advice. Matt

is the caretaker of the group and the peace maker. He is the reason why Elena turns on her

humanity.

•Katherine Pierce- Elena Gilbert is her doppelgänger who is a vampire. She is the opposite of

Elena. She cares for no one but herself and does not care who she hurts or kill to get what she

wants. Also she is very sneaky, ruthless, and vengeful.

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•The Originals- A family who were the first vampires to ever be created. Klaus and Rebekah is

part of the originals family. The only way they can die is if they are staked by the white oak

stake. The white oak is a tree that was used to create them. There is only one white oak stake in

the world. The Original family is more powerful than any other vampire. Klaus is cunning,

ruthless, clever and sneaky. Overall he is an evil person that will do whatever it takes to get what

he wants but he also craves for a loyal family and a lover that will love him for who he is.

Rebekah is smart, strong minded, caring, demanding but can have no mercy towards others who

betray her. In the end Rebekah just wants to fall in love with someone and have a normal life. In

season four she fights to get the cure because she is tired of being a vampire and just wants a

normal life.

•Silas- He is known as the world’s first immortal being. He is a powerful witch and the co-

creator of the immortality spell. He is smart and manipulative. The reason for him wanting to get

rid of the other side was so he could be reunited with his one true love.

Vocabulary List:

1. Vervain: A herd and vampire’s weakness. If a vampire comes in contact with vervian it will

burn them and if they digest it, it will cause throat and digestive tract to burn, making them

become feverish and extremely weak. If a human ingest or holds vervain, it will protect

him/herself from vampire compulsion.

2. Doppelgänger: paranormal double or “twin” of a living person.

3. Sire bond: link between the sire and their progeny that occurs within the vampire species. The

progeny takes orders from the sire to show loyalty.

Artifacts are physical objects, emotions, or ideas that show importance to characters or a

certain individual within a group.

The Cure- A small vital of blood that if consumed by a vampire, he/she will no longer be

immortal and is now a human. This is significant to the show because all of Elena friends are

trying to get the cure for Elena because they knew out of everyone she never wanted to become a

vampire and she never liked being a vampire.

Elena’s humanity- Elena’s emotions have been turned off due to a traumatic experience. She

could not deal with the emotions from the loss of her brother, so she turned off her humanity to

prevent her from feeling the pain. In my observations Elena’s humanity is something everyone

wants her to have back, to be her old self again. Not the cold hearted and ruthless person Elena is

without her humanity and emotions.

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Communities of Practice are a group of people with a common interest, experience and

lifestyle. They can come from an organization. Within the group, they learn from each other

and understand the world through a different perspective at a better understanding.

Vampires- This group consist of Elena, Stefan, Damon, and Caroline. They have been friends for

many years and they can each relate how it feels to be a vampire. They know the positives and

negatives that come from being a supernatural creature. In the end they are just vampires who

still each have a heart and just want to protect the ones they care and love most.

Elena’s group of friends- Elena has a strong supportive group of friends. In this group of friends

are Matt, Caroline, Bonnie, Stefan, Bonnie, and Tyler. Tyler, Matt, Elena, Caroline and Bonnie

all grew up together and have been friends since they can remember. Stefan and Damon have

been with Elena since sophomore year. Even though they do not know Elena as much as the

others they still love and care for her just as much. Elena’s groups of friends all look out for each

other and protect the ones they love.

Domain is something that helps recognize a person from a group of people, whether it is an

interest or value.

Trying to turn on Elena’s humanity- All of Elena’s friends throughout many episodes of the

show try to find ways to bring back Elena’s humanity, like finding the cure, telling her happy

memories of her past, or showing pictures of happy memories.

Practices of the Community is developing skills and methods though experience that can help

further your knowledge when it comes to working through situations or just everyday simple

tasks in your field of work like caring for patients if you are a doctor.

Methods to bring back Elena’s humanity- Elena’s friends try several different methods to see

which works best to bring back her emotions. The community of practice knows that they have

to bring the old Elena back as soon as possible or she will do something she will regret later on

when she turns back on her emotions.

Literacy practices- Are ways of communicating that either are written or spoken. Ex. Texting,

talking, emailing, or phone call.

Phone calls- Many conversations Stefan and Damon have together are through phone calls. They

use this kind of communication to make it easier for them to tell each other important

information fast from anywhere. Also, if they had no way to see you each other in person they

could communicate through the use of a phone.

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Observation One: 4X15 “Stand by Me”

1:00- Elena runs into a dark cave to find her brother Jeremy lying on the floor dead with blood

pouring out of his neck. She starts to shout while holding and rocking Jeremy back and forth

saying “You’re going to be okay, you’re going to be okay.” While on the ground holding onto

Jeremy, Elena is crying and shaking and looking at the ring on his hand. Damon and Stefan are

talking to each other asking how Jeremy died. They come up with an idea that Katherine killed

Jeremy.

3:00- (Next Scene) Caroline is at Elena’s house and looks over to see Stefan walk through the

door with Jeremy’s dead body in his arms and stops what she is doing. Caroline has a confused

and shocked expression on her face. Stefan carries Jeremy up to his room while Elena follows

him. They put Jeremy on his bed and wrap a blanket on him. Elena sits next to her brother

Jeremy on the bed and holds his hand and stares at his ring while waiting for him to wake up.

Stefan looks at Elena with a sad expression before leaving the room.

7:00- (Next Scene) Damon is on the island searching for Katherine and his friend Bonnie.

Rebekah is walking alongside him. As they are walking Damon tells Rebekah that Katherine

killed Jeremy. Rebekah is in shock and feels sympathy for Elena because she knows he was her

only family left. Damon and Rebekah continue to look for Bonnie and Damon tells Rebekah that

Silas is on the loose and to be careful.

9:00- (Next Scene) Bonnie wakes up disoriented confused and angry. She looks around and see’s

Shane. She asks Shane what he did to her. Shane then tells Bonnie that Jeremy is dead and why

Silas needs to be brought back. Bonnie looks at Shane is shock and disarray. Bonnie has tears in

her eyes.

10:00- (Next Scene) Caroline and Stefan are having a conversation downstairs in the kitchen,

while Elena is upstairs in Jeremy’s room. They talk about how Elena is waiting for her brother to

wake up and be okay, but they know he will not because he is dead. Caroline asks Stefan if Elena

knows if Jeremy is dead, he replies no. Elena comes into the kitchen interrupting their

conversation saying she is not in denial that is it possible for Jeremy to wake up because his

supernatural tattoos are gone making him a normal human again, so the ring will bring him back

to life. Caroline looks at Elena hopelessly. Elena keeps repeating over and over “It’s possible,

it’s possible. There is a chance. Hope. I can’t give up on hope. There is no way Jeremy is dead.

There is absolutely no way my brother is dead.” Elena said as she shakes her head saying she is

not in denial and walks away.

15:00- (Next Scene) Caroline and Stefan talk outside Elena’s house about how the cure is gone

and they wanted it for Elena, but with no family will she still want the cure. Caroline said “We

can’t think about that right now. We need to plan for a funeral and cover story. I don’t how

people deal with these kinds of situations” then she pauses and sniffs the air and asks “What’s

that smell?” They smell Jeremy’s dead body rotting away. Stefan replies, “It’s Jeremy’s body

starting to decompose.”

17:00- (Next Scene) Rebekah and Damon are walking around in the woods talking and trying to

find Bonnie. All the sudden an arrow gets shot through Rebekah’s spine by a hunter. Damon uses

his speed to get way. The hunter looks around his surroundings having his bow and arrow ready

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to shoot. Damon comes up behind the hunter and flips him over and slams him on the ground

with force. He starts to punch the hunter over and over until he knocks out completely.

19:00- (Next Scene) Bonnie is sobbing and walks around in anger and sadness. She uses her

anger to start a fire and is on a rampage. Shane runs over to Bonnie and tells her to calm down.

She continues to cry hysterically. Shane grabs Bonnie by her shoulders forcefully and tells her

she can bring back Jeremy with her help. Bonnie just stares at Shane.

22:00- (Next Scene) Elena walks to Jeremy’s room with a worried expression. Dr. Meredith

walks in and tells Elena she is checking on Jeremy condition. Dr. Meredith holds Jeremy’s hand

and checks his wrist for a pulse. Elena explains to Dr. Meredith that she will not find any vitals

until he wakes up and said he has died a few times and that the ring brought him back every

time. Stefan shows up to listen and watch. Dr. Meredith tells Elena in a soft spoken tone that

Jeremy died due to extreme blood lost and his neck appears to be broken and that if the body is

left unattended soon the body will start to bloat. Elena interrupts Dr. Meredith. She gets angry

and shouts “No! He’s going to wake up okay!! STOP! He’s not dead!” Dr. Meredith talks over

Elena by saying she needs to release the body over to her for a proper funeral. Elena is in rage so

she runs to Dr. Meredith and slams and holds her against the wall. Elena screams into her face

saying “NO! HE’S NOT DEAD!” Stefan runs up to Elena and holds her back from hurting Dr.

Meredith any further. Elena then said “There’s no science. We need magic to bring him back.

We need to find Bonnie”. Suddenly Matt walks in calling Elena’s name in confusion about what

is all the commotion is about. He then looks at Jeremy’s body and to find him dead. He has on a

confused, shocked, and heartbroken expression. Tears start to form in Matt’s eyes and Elena

rushes over to comfort Matt saying “Bonnies will fix this soon and everything will be fine.

Everything is going to be fine. Everything is going to be fine.”

27:00- (Next Scene) Rebekah come up behind Damon complaining how he left her in the woods

after getting shot by a hunter with an arrow and she had to pull out the arrow herself so she could

heal. Damon and Rebekah are on the island talking. Rebekah tells Damon she is planning to find

the cure and take it herself. Damon gets angry and Rebekah said that Damon does not want Elena

to take the cure because he wants her to stay as a vampire forever. Damon replies saying he

wants to find the cure for Elena because she wants and needs it. Then he walks away from

Rebekah.

28:00- (Next Scene) Dr. Meredith covers Jeremy’s body with a blanket and bumps up the AC.

She looks at Stefan and tells him they cannot keep him in the room much longer. Stefan nods his

head agreeing. Stefan said he has been alive for centuries and each death he has seen doesn’t get

any easier. Cell phone rings. Stefan answers the call from Damon. Stefan tells Damon that Elena

is not doing too well and that he needs to find Bonnie fast. Damon replies saying he cannot find

Bonnie and does not want to show up without her. Stefan suggests that he has to come and use

the sire bond to help Elena until they find Bonnie. Damon ends the conversation by saying he is

on his way. He hangs up and as he turns around, Bonnie appears through the trees and they look

at each other in relief. Damon and Bonnie hug. Bonnie looks at Damon in the eyes in a serious

tone saying she knows what to do to bring Jeremy back.

32:00- (Next Scene) Bonnie, Matt, Caroline, and Elena sit at a table in the kitchen. Bonnie

explains what she has to do for Silas to bring back Jeremy. She needs to kill twelve people to

complete the triangle trials. After it is completed Silas can use his power to bring back every

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dead supernatural creature back. Matt shouts “Bonnie you can’t kill twelve people!” and

Caroline chimes in saying “You’re talking like a crazy person. You are not killing twelve people

and for sure not bringing back every monster back into this world.” Elena stares blankly into

space while everyone is talking. The house phone starts ringing silencing everyone. Elena walks

over to answer the phone. The person on the phone asks for Jeremy and Elena replies “Jeremy

can’t come to the phone right now, he’s- Sorry he’s dead”, hangs up and walks out of the

kitchen. Stefan, Damon, Caroline, Bonnie and Matt stare at each other in shock and concern.

35:00- (Next Scene) Elena walks up to Jeremy’s room slowly, looks at his covered body and

with shaking hands and tears removes the blankets revealing a decomposing Jeremy. Elena is in

tears and Damon walks into the room. Elena looks at Damon repeating over and over “He’s

dead, he’s dead. He’s been dead this entire time and I’ve been in denial this entire time!” Elena

tells Damon to bring Jeremy’s body downstairs. She then rushes downstairs and grabs gasoline

and starts pouring it everywhere. Damon puts Jeremy’s body on the couch. Everyone around

Elena is looking at her in confusion and fear. Elena shouts “I need a cover story. I don’t want to

live here anymore. I’m not willing to bring every dead supernatural creature back for Jeremy.

Everyone in the Gilbert family has died.” Elena breaks everything in her surroundings and

throws picture frames everywhere. Lights up a match and holding it while saying in tears “Every

inch of this house is filled with memories of the people I love that have died.” Cries hysterically,

hands covering her head and face, and drops to her knee saying “I can’t, I can’t. It hurts, please

make it stop.” Everyone watches her breakdown in sadness for their friend. Caroline is in tears.

Stefan tells Damon to help her. Damon bends down to Elena and look into her eyes while

holding her telling her to turn off her emotions. Stefan looks at Damon in anger saying “What?!

No!” Elena stops crying, stares blankly, closes her eyes. Her humanity/emotions have been

turned off.

43:00- (Next Scene) Elena picks up a picture frame of her and Jeremy. Stares at it blankly with

no emotions showing in her face. Stefan tells Damon that it was a bad idea and Damon disagrees

saying when Elena’s ready he can use the sire bond to make her turn back on her humanity.

44:00- (Next Scene) Elena lights up a match and lets it fall to the ground. Flames start to spread

all over the house. Elena, Stefan and Damon walk out the house together.

Observation Two: 4X16 “Bring it on”

1:00- It is dark outside. Elena is walking in the middle of the road with no cars. She hears a car

coming so she lies down on the ground flat on her back with her legs and arms spread apart. She

closes her eyes. The car is driving and slows down when the driver spots Elena on the ground.

The car stops and a lady rushes out and runs to Elena to see if she is alright. Elena opens he eyes

and looks at the sky. The girl asks if Elena is hurt. Elena replies saying “I don’t feel anything.”

The lady tells Elena she is going to call for help and get her a blanket. She proceeds to run to her

car and opens her trunk to find a blanket. As she turns around, Elena is right there staring at her.

The lady looks frighten and confused. Elena feeds on her neck like a wild animal. The lady’s

face shows pain. Sudden the lady goes unconscious. Damon comes up behind Elena telling her

“that’s enough, we agreed to no killing.” Elena responds back saying, “This is the first person

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I’ve seen whose body isn’t filled with vervain.” Elena drops the lady’s body onto the ground and

walks away.

3:00- (Next Scene) Elena is taking a shower. While she is washing her hair, she uses her hearing

ability to listen onto Stefan, Damon, and Caroline’s conversation in the room. They talk about

suggesting bringing Elena back to school. They think it is a good idea for her to go through a

normal routine and help her get over her brother’s death. Elena walks into the room saying

“sounds like fun” in a monotone. Stefan gives Damon a head nod. Damon goes up to Elena and

gives her orders to not eat anyone at school. Elena stares blankly at Damon and nods her head.

6:00- (Next Scene) High school setting with a bunch of high school students socializing with

each other. Elena walks down the hall and she sees a flyer with Jeremy’s face on it. The flyer had

the words “Memorial for Jeremy Gilbert”. Elena stares at the flyer and takes it down. Caroline

watches Elena from a far to keep an eye on her to see how she is doing. Matt comes up the

Caroline asking if Bonnie is okay. Caroline replied saying Bonnies is at home resting. Elena

walks up to Caroline and Matt. Elena asks Caroline if she can get her old spot on the

cheerleading team. Caroline replies, “Yeah I’m the captain but, I thought you hated

cheerleading?” Elena said, “Yeah I did but, I think it would be a good idea!” Caroline gets happy

and smiles saying “I think that will make Damon really happy!”

9:00- (Next Scene) Stefan is talking to Sheriff Forbes in her office. Sheriff Forbes explains that

the entire blood supply has vanished at the local hospital. Stefan asks Sherriff Forbes if she is

accusing him and the others of stealing. She replied “No but, I can’t keep lying about how

“mysterious” things happen or things will boil over”. Stefan said he would find out who stole all

the blood bags and keep Sheriff Forbes updated. Sheriff Forbes said, “Good because that incident

will put you and your friends at risk including my daughter Caroline.”

11:00- (Next Scene) Elena walks around the school in her cheerleading uniform looking around

her surroundings. The school gym is surrounded by cheerleaders from other schools and students

cheering from the stands waiting for the competition to start. Caroline comes to Elena excitedly

tell her she thinks the team will actually have a chance to win this year. Elena looked

disinterested and begins to look at the other cheerleaders from other schools. She spots a

cheerleader walking to an empty school bus. Elena follows her quietly onto the bus. The girl is

busy looking through her bag to get something to notice Elena. The girl turns around and gasps.

Elena looks at the girl’s ribbon and said, “I like your ribbon. I want it.” The girl replies, “Yeah

but, I’m using it so o get you own.” with an attitude and tried to move around Elena. Elena

attacks her neck and feeds on her. The girl screams out in pain. Elena takes off her ribbon while

still feeding on her.

16:00- (Next Scene) Elena walks back into the gym like nothing happened with the blue ribbon

tied in her hair. Caroline comes up to Elena asking where she has been and why she has on a

ribbon that is not their school colors. Elena smiles and shrugs her shoulders. She walks away.

Caroline looks after her confused and then sees a girl in the same color uniform as Elena’s

ribbon walking in with a scarf around her neck. Caroline realizes what Elena did and chases after

Elena saying, “Are you out of your mind?!? Feeding on the competition? Hello! Did you not

hear what Damon told you earlier?” Elena replies, “I did but, who cares. I’ll do whatever I

want.” Stefan walks asking Elena and Caroline if everything is alright. Elena nods her head and

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walks away to warm up before the performance. Caroline looks at Stefan and said, “Remember

Damon sired her to behave? Didn’t really work.”

19:00- (Next Scene) Stefan is one the phone with Damon. Stefan tells Damon that the sire bond

does not work anymore. Damon tells Stefan that it is impossible for that to happen. Stefan comes

with an idea that the sire bond only worked because Elena had feelings for Damon but, with

Elena’s humanity off and she does not have emotions. The sire bond broke. Damon ends the

phone call by telling Stefan to keep an eye on Elena while he looks for the cure.

22:00- (Next Scene) Stefan walks up to Elena saying they needed to have a talk. He asks her if

she fed on the cheerleader. Elena smiles innocently and response with a maybe. Stefan then asks

her if she had anything to do with the missing blood bags at the hospital. Elena replies, “I’m sick

on blood bags. Trust me. I prefer something a little warmer.” Stefan tries to convince Elena to

turn back on her humanity saying he went through the same thing and ended up killing and

hurting thousands of people. Telling her she is better than this. Elena response, “I don’t know.

This may be the better version of me.” and walks away. Caroline stands in front of Elena as she

is walking and tells her there is no way she can cheer. Elena replies back saying “Let’s see who

can stop Me.” in a harsh tone and walks into the gym. Elena, Caroline and the rest of the team

cheers their routine. Caroline gets thrown up into the air as a flyer. Elena takes a step back and

does not catch help catch Caroline in time so Caroline lands on the ground hard. The crowd

gasps and the team members rushes to see if Caroline is okay. Elena smirks at Caroline. Caroline

looks back at her in pure rage. Elena walks out of the gym. Stefan catches up to Elena and

distracts her. He quickly injected a needle into Elena with vervain. Elena falls into Stefan’s arms

unconscious.

30:00- (Next Scene) Elena wakes up on a bed gasping. She looks at Stefan asking him what he

did to her. Stefan replies “Brought you home before you can cause any more trouble.” Elena

responds back saying, “So? I was hungry so I fed.” Stefan tells Elena that she is acting just like

Katherine, her doppelgänger. Elena replies “No, she has been running from her problems. She’s

afraid of her own shadows. I’m not afraid of anything. I’ve shut it all off, including my feelings

for you. I just don’t feel anything anymore. Why do you care if I kill people?”. “Because I put

you into this world. I’m not letting you do this and have you suffer later when you turn back on

your humanity. Realizing what you have done. Hurting and killing innocent people”, said Stefan.

Stefan and Elena pause and look at each other as they hear people walking in the house. Stefan

rushes down the stairs to see who came in. A huge crowd of high school students walk through

the door getting ready to party. Stefan looks at the people with a confused expression. Loud

music starts to play in the background. Elena walks down the stairs and smiles sweetly at Stefan

saying, “You kept me from seeing people so I brought them here.”

35:00- (Next Scene) High school students are dancing, talking, and drinking. Sheriff Forbes

walks in angry and comes up to Elena saying she is shutting down the party. Elena pushes

Sheriff Forbes roughly and hard against the wall. Caroline runs up to her mom to see if she is

okay. Stefan holds back Elena. Elena escapes from Stefan’s holds and uses her super speed to

run out of the house. Caroline and Stefan walk outside into the woods searching for Elena. They

came up with a plan that if they see Elena, that they should snap her neck. Caroline and Stefan

split up.

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40:00- (Next Scene) Caroline is walking around the woods shouting out Elena’s name. Elena

runs up behind Caroline and flips her over and punches her. Elena and Caroline fight. Caroline

gets frustrated and screams at Elena saying “JUST STOP! This isn’t you and you know it Elena!

You hurt my mom.. How far are you going to take this?” Elena stops fighting Caroline and

replies back, “Are you trying to make me feel bad for hurting your mom? Don’t you get it

Caroline? I. Don’t. Care.” Caroline gets angry and slaps, kicks, and punches Elena. Elena breaks

a tree branch and stabs Caroline in the stomach. Caroline gasps, screams in pain with blood

spilling out of her body, and falls to the ground. Elena takes out the branch and is about to aim

for the heart but, Stefan and Damon rushes over to them. Damon grabs Elena and takes her away.

Stefan checks to see if Caroline is alright.

46:00- (Next Scene) Stefan and Caroline is in the living talking. Caroline has a sad expression

and said “What if she doesn’t turn back on her emotions? She won’t choose to turn them back

on. She’s not an orphan, she just lost her brother. Her life sucks. So why would she come back to

us.” Stefan replies, “I remember when I was at my worst. Elena didn’t give up on me. So we

can’t give up on her”. Caroline nods her head.

Observation Three: 4X17 “Because the Night”

1:00- Couple walking down streets of New York casually talking and they see Damon lying on

his stomach not moving pretending to be unconscious. The couple checks to see if Damon is

alright. The boyfriend turns his head to tell his girlfriend to stay back, but when he turns his head

to face Damon. He is gone; the boyfriend has a confused and scared expression. The boyfriend

hears his girlfriend scream and turns around to see her lying on the ground dead with blood

coming out of her neck. Damon appears in front of the boyfriend and feeds on him. At the

bottom of the screen it reads, “New York, 1977”.

3:00- (Next Scene) Damon and Elena are in New York walking through the streets. Damon tells

Elena when he was in New York years ago he got to feed and no one found out about him.

Damon told Elena he took her here so she could have her fun. (Next scene) Damon and Stefan

are on the phone. Damon tells Stefan he took Elena to New York so she does not cause trouble in

Mystic Falls. Stefan gets angry and asked if he is still looking for the cure. Damon replied saying

he found a clue leading to Katherine being in New York who has the cure. Stefan tells Damon to

be careful about not having Elena found out he’s looking for the cure or she will bolt. Stefan

explains that Elena is ruthless without her humanity and the cure will bring her real self-back as

soon as possible. Damon hangs up and see’s Elena walking towards him smiling. Elena got a

new haircut and hairstyle. Her hair looks shorter and has red streaks in it.

7:00- (Next Scene) Silas and Bonnie is in Bonnie’s house. Silas brainwashed Bonnie by telling

her the only way she can bring back Jeremy if she helps him with his plan to complete the

expression trial. Silas asks if Bonnie has told anyone where he is and she said no that she lied to

her friends and family about working with him. Silas is portraying as Professor Shane. Silas tells

Bonnie the reason only she can help because she is decedent of a powerful ancient witch, and

only has the powers to complete the expression triangle to get rid of the other side to bring back

every single dead supernatural being. Bonnie looks like she is unsure about going through with

his plan by killing twelve people. Silas encourages her to do so by saying, “Do this for Jeremy.”

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10:00- (Next Scene) Elena and Damon walk into a bar called “Billy’s”. The bar is filled with a

large amount of people. Damon tells Elena he spent the 70’s here and that no one would notice

any missing people here. Rebekah all the sudden appears behind Damon using her super speed

saying “Looking for the cure without me I see.” Elena looks at Damon with a confused

expression. Rebekah explained that she and Damon were still looking for the cure to Elena.

Elena gets angry and asks Damon if that is true. Damon tells Rebekah he brought Elena to New

York to feed and have fun. Rebekah is still skeptical. Damon tries to convince her by telling her

he switched his humanity off in the 70’s and went to New York and thought it would be good for

Elena. Damon walks off to the bar to get a drink. Rebekah and Elena talk. Elena does not buy

Damon’s story and she knows his real reason they are here is so he can look for the cure. Elena

does not want Damon to find the cure because she knows Stefan and Damon will force her to

take it to get her humanity back. Elena tells Rebekah she plans on finding the cure first behind

Damon’s back while on this trip.

18:00- (Next Scene) Caroline, Stefan, and Klaus are in Shane’s office looking for information on

how to kill Silas and stop his plan with completing the expression triangle. Stefan, Caroline and

Klaus look through file cabinets and book shelves. Caroline finds a book stating that for the

expression triangle to be complete after the previous two massacres. What is left for Silas to do is

kill twelve witches.

22:00- (Next Scene) Bonnie yells at Silas saying, “You want me to kill twelve witches?! I’m not

doing that!” Silas tells her if she completes the expression triangle they will all come back

anyways. Bonnie questions herself, she think she is not strong enough to cast the spell. Silas tells

Bonnie that she is strong and powerful enough. Silas then tells Bonnie in descriptive detail on

how to cast the spell. Bonnie’s father walks into the room. Bonnie tells him to call her mom and

to bring a lot of witches to Mystic Falls.

26:00- (Next Scene) A rock band is playing in the background, people dancing and singing along

in the bar. Rebekah, Elena and Damon take shots together. They are dancing and having fun. As

Elena and Damon dance, Elena finds a girl as her next target to feed on. She walks up to the girl

and compels her to not scream and Elena bites and feeds on her neck. Everyone who is not a

vampire is too busy dancing and drinking to notice Elena feeding on the girl. Damon walks away

from Elena and Rebekah. Damon is heading to the owner’s office. Elena watched Damon walk

away. Rebekah and Elena know that Damon is trying to look for information to find Katherine

and the cure. Elena and Rebekah walk over to the bar to get a drink. They talk about working

together to find the cure before Damon. Elena plans to give Rebekah the cure. She asks why

Rebekah wants to take the cure. Rebekah replies saying it is because she wants to start a family

of her own one day.

32:00- (Next Scene) Damon is in the bar office looking through files. He finds a file on

Katherine and in the files it has her current address. Elena walks in the office. Damon quickly

hides the files before Elena can see. Damon guides Elena out the office and tells her they should

get a drink. This is to distract Elena from finding the files.

34:00- (Next Scene) Bonnie walks in the woods waiting to meet up with the witches. Twelve

witches are in the woods waiting for Bonnie and they think they are there to help Bonnie control

her powers. Bonnie and the head witch stands in the middle will the other eleven witches form a

circle around them. The witches link their powers together. The head witch puts her hands on

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Bonnie head and starts to cast a spell. In the middle of the spell Stefan runs up to the witch

telling her to stop and that Bonnie is working for Silas. The witch takes out a knife planning to

kill Bonnie. Caroline runs over to the witch and forces the knife into the witch’s heart killing her

and the other eleven witches because they were all linked together as one. Caroline stands up and

realizes she accidently completed the third massacre. Caroline did not mean for this to happen

she just wanted to save her best friend from getting killed.

Interview Questions:

1. Describe one of the characters who you relate to most.

2. Name one character you wish you could be and why.

3. If you could bring back one of the characters who have died in the show, who would it be

and why?

4. Describe how you became a fan of the show and why?

5. What are some of the pros and cons of becoming a vampire?

I chose to interview Victoria Gomez because she is a fan of the show and was one of the few

people I would talk about the show. She has about the same views and opinion as I do about the

show. I thought she would be able to help let reader understand my observations more or get to

know a little more about some of the characters in the show.

Interviewer #1: (Victoria Gomez) Age: 18

1. One Character I can relate to most would probably be Stefan Salvatore. Even though he is

a vampire, he has a heart and a soul and he cares for so much. Even though he drinks

blood he can’t seem to bring himself to drink human blood. He cares about everything

even though he may not show it sometimes deep down you he does. And I can be the

same, not the drinking blood part, but the part in he cares and wants to protect what he

cares about no matter what.

2. I wish I could be Caroline Forbes, because seeing how she was a normal girl, but then

turned into a vampire would be amazing. I would love to experience becoming a vampire

and seeing how much fun it could be. But also because after becoming a vampire her

attitude towards life changed, in the sense that she lived life without worrying about what

might happen, she lives life to the fullest.

3. I would want to bring back Sherriff Forbes. She might not have been a huge character,

but she played a big part in all of the main characters lives, especially being Caroline

Forbes’ mom. She was an important piece to everyone and to the town itself.

4. I became a fan by a friend of mine. She had mentioned it before, but I never really

watched it until I saw it on television and then found it on Netflix. After watching it, I

was able to “fangirl” over the show with her. I instantly became hooked because of the

story line of the show and who doesn’t love a show about vampires?

5. Some pros to being a vampire would be: you never age; you would be able to run fast or

move fast, you could also compel people to do what you want. Some cons would be: with

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the never aging you would never be able to experience the full effect of true love,

because you could never age with person you love. Another con would be you could not

be out in the sun light and you have to control yourself from the smell and sight of blood.

Lastly, one major con would be able to turn off and on your humanity. I think you have

feeling for a reason and having a “switch” isn’t supposed to make it easy for you to live.

I chose Iphigenia Sarrimanolis as one of my interviewers because she is a few years younger

than me so I wanted more of a variety in age. She has different views on the show than me, but I

liked that because she did not give similar answers I would have given. This gave readers more

variety on opinions.

Interviewer #2: (Iphigenia Sarrimanolis) Age: 16

1. I relate most to Matt Donovan because he always tries to put his friends first and is

always there for everyone even though he is just a human.

2. I wish I could be Alaric Saltzman because he was able to help the character in the show

and encourage people like Damon to make the right decisions. Also he was like a father

figure for Elena and Jeremy after they lost their parents in a car accident.

3. Aunt Jenna because her and Alaric had a cute romantic relationship. They were one my

favorite couples in the show because they were just ordinary humans in love. Also Jenna

was the care taker/mother figure for Elena and Jeremy. She was always there to support

them though anything and wanted the best for them.

4. I started watching the show when Damon Salvatore caught my eye during the previews

and the previews sparked my interest.

5. Pro- You can date hot vampires like Damon and Stefan Salvatore and the cool

supernatural abilities.

Con- The thirst for blood and the high chances of killing someone from blood thirst.

I chose to interview Jazymne Harris because I recently learned she just became a fan of the

show. I thought this would be interesting to compare her interview to my other interviewers who

have been a fan of the show longer. Also, her feedback helped give a better understanding on

some of the vampire abilities and there was information on a character (Lexi Branson) that is not

a frequent character you see throughout the season.

Interviewer #3: (Jazymne Harris) Age: 16

1. I relate to Elena Gilbert the most because she always puts others before herself and is

very selfless.

2. I wish I could be like Damon Salvatore because he is very bold, honest, and daring. He

takes risks and doesn’t try to sugar coat anything when telling someone the hard honest

truth.

3. A character I would bring back would be Lexi Branson. She was such a good best friend

to Stefan. When Stefan would turn off his emotions, she would always be there to help

him get back to his old self and she never gave up on him no matter what.

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4. I started watching The Vampire Dairies when I was bored and trying to find a new show

to watch on Netflix. Then I watched every episode and fell in love with the story line.

5. Pro- Compelling people, super speed, looking young forever, and healing others with

your blood. Con- Being in the sun, vervain, living forever, possibly killing people and

losing control.

I chose Victoria Nguyen as one of my interviewers because she was the reason I became a fan of

the show, she first introduced me about this TV series back in 2009. She has been a fan since the

first episode aired. I thought her feedback would help my observations because her and I have

very similar views about the show.

Interviewer #4: (Victoria Nguyen) Age: 20

1. I think the character I relate to the most is Caroline Forbes because she’s everyone’s best

friend on the show. She started off really insecure and weak and transformed into a really

confident person.

2. If I could be anyone in the show, I would be Bonnie. Bonnie is the witch in the show that

seems to always be the one to save everyone. I think it would be fun to be a witch

because of the ability to do magic and cast spells.

3. If I could bring back anyone in the show, it would be Katherine. She made the show more

interesting and fun because she would pretend to be Elena and cause trouble.

4. I got into the show because I read the books before they made the show

5. Pros: Immortality, super strength, super hearing, super speed, ability to use compulsion

Cons: You have to drink blood, unless you have a daylight ring you are unable to go out

into the sunlight