Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice

Interview with a Vampire, by Anne Rice, was an interesting read when comparing it to more modern day vampire stories such as Twilight, Buffy or True Blood. During Part one, it’s explained how a vampire is created and how a vampire lives its life. Before reading this book, I was expecting all the same vampire tropes, such as, vampires can’t go in sunlight, they cannot touch crosses or how a stake through a vampire’s heart will kill them. In this story vampires are fine in light; they can touch crosses and a stake through the heart will not kill them.

            This is a very interesting story and has a lot to do with death and how one another depend on each other. In part one Louis’s brother dies driving Louis to turn into an alcoholic and something that encourages him to leave and isolate himself. Louis is then turned into a vampire, which obviously means he is now immortal. Louis now has to live forever with the blame of his brother’s death. Later on, in the story Louis and Lestat turn a child, Claudia into a vampire. Louis for some reason still feels human feelings and realizes that he has to take care of Claudia now that her mother died. Typically, vampires are created to be with their partner who is a vampire or is turned into a vampire against their own will. Either way the new vampire needs to learn to live with their new lives in a human world. Therefore, they are always depending on each other. Which, is seen many times in modern day vampire stories, in Twilight, Bella is turned to be with her partner, in True Blood, Bill is forced to change Jessica leaving Jessica to learn from Bill who almost turns into a father figure for her, similar to Louis and Claudia.