Week 2 Interview with a Vampire

In Ann Rice’s Interview with a Vampire, the relationships are very interesting throughout the story. The three individuals in the book are bonded by immortality and loyalty. The book starts with Louis, who is the one talking in the interview about how he became a vampire. While he goes through tragedy he meets a vampire that changes his life, which he discusses a lot in the story. Louis is constantly trying to find out who he is and what it means to be a vampire and why other vampires are betraying him. One of the relationships is Louis and the boy he meets to conduct the interview. They meet in San Francisco, which is where it all began. He starts off by telling him about when he was a normal man in the eighteenth century in New Orleans; once he looses his family he then encounters the vampire Lestate who makes him into the vampire.  Another one of Louis’s relationships is with Claudia. Claudia was his first human that he killed and then Lestate made her into a vampire. Claudia became furious with him because she will never be an adult. Claudia ended up cutting Lestate’s throat and killing him, which then prompted Claudia, and Louis to travel to Europe so that they can find more of their kind. Louis then meets Armand and falls under his spell while gaining attraction towards him. Claudia ends up getting jealous thinking that Louis would leave her for Armand.

A big part of this book is how they show their sexual tension with the relationships involved. The author makes it clear that there are many different sexual orientations in this book as well. The book has tones of bisexuality, homosexuality, and heterosexuality. The relationships in this book are very different compared to other books because there is so much tension of hate and love all in one story. Anne really makes the reader question what is actually going on in the story, all you can think about is how this story has both good and evil. The book can also make the reader uncomfortable with the descriptions between the people. Overall the story was very interesting and unlike anything I have read before.

Week 1 Frankenstein

Movie and Book Blog Post 1


In Mary Shelly's novel, Frankenstein there are many Gothic elements. When I think of Gothic elements I imagine eerie, dark, and creepy scenes. Frankenstein has all of these aspects throughout the entire book and film. After Watching parts of the film I saw these elements really come to life. I had read parts here and there of Frankenstein in high school but never got into liking the book until after I read it for this class. I enjoyed reading it because I don't typically read horror books which is a reason that I decided to take this class and experience a new genre. I really captured the emotions that Mary Shelly was getting when writing this book. She was very creative and knew how to make the reader feel anxious. 

Monsters come into play in a lot of scary/horror movies. He was a different kind of monster, he was unique in the way that he was made by a human being. The monster was often just trying to find his place in the world and wanted to make friends and to please Dr. Frankenstein. The letters in the book really set the book up perfectly because it was between Frankenstein and his sister, Elizabeth. I enjoyed the perspective that was thought out and used in this book. 

Another horror book and movie quality is lighting; lighting was a big aspect used in the book and movie to create dark emotions, and to make the viewer/reader more anxious. Mary Shelly really knew how to set the mood by using candles, castles, wolfs and bad weather. The scene also took place at night which is a key aspect in every scary book/film.