Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Interview post 1
I thought that reading the book from the point of view of the vampire gave me a lot of sympathies with him. Usually in vampire novels the vampire is the subject of the story but not the narrator. we never really get to see the their inner workings. In Louis's case, he was upset by what he had to do to survive and he was sure he was damned because he had to kill and because he enjoyed it. Vampires are usually portrayed as monsters maybe because we cant see their motivations and thoughts. I also thought that the relationship between Lestat, Louis and Claudia was strange in the fact that no one saw them as strange. I would think that in that time a male couple with a child would cause some uproar. I know that the relationship was not sexual but that would be how it would appear to outsiders. The fa
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Hello and Good afternoon Alix,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you say that this vampire novel gave off a lot of sympathies for "Louis" who is also the one narrating the story as you also pointed out. As stated, you are correct that this is the first story that we have read so far having the vampire narrate the story hence the naming of the story "Interview with a Vampire". One question that I have is what were you going to say at the end because the sentence is not finished because it says "The fa..." and that is it. So I think that next time you should double read what you write before you post it but other than that I think your blog was great and you touched on two great ideas.
--Sharon
I agree with you. I felt sympathy for Louis as well because he was telling the story from his point of view. Knowing how he felt about what he was made me like him too. He didn't want to hurt people, that's why he survived off animals.
ReplyDeleteI also agree with the way in which the novel was written. I really enjoyed the vampire being the narrator. I salso agree with the ability to look into the mind of the vampire himself. It helped to make him feel human like. To feel the human qualities.
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