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.