Blog #1 Interview with the Vampire 1/21/10

In the first 3rd of "Interview with the Vampire", a tragic indigo plantation owner named Louis from New Orleans is turned into a vampire by Lestat, and as Lestat guides him to learn the ways of the vampire, and what it takes to live as a vampire in society. As the people of the plantation find out there are monsters amongst them, the residents leave to go back to the City. Through all of this, Louis is still trying to take care of his brother and sister even in the state of mind he is in as a vampire. Lestat and Louis then find a dying 5 year old girl, and Lestat turns her into a vampire instead of letting her die. She joins them, and as things go on, she and Louis realize that Lestat is a very bad person for turning them into vampires and make a plot to kill him. The first 1/3 of the book shows many prime examples of gender roles, as Louis goes from having the responsibility of a family and plantation, a job typically for males, and then watching the switch from him being a human to a vampire. There is also sexual tension and gender aspects of the relationship between Claudia and the older, more mature vampires, and this can be seen throughout the entire book. The relationship between Lestat and his newly acquired vampires shows that a male that is superior that uses his ability to worsen the situation of Louis and Claudia made them hate Lestat and want to kill him, but little by little the hatred and resentment turned into a sort of truce that Louis and Lestat were now binded together with the bind of being Vampires, so they must stay together to be able to survive.