AP Journal Entry #2 Interview with the Vampire

Interview with the Vampire is told through an interview about the 200 year life of Louis. After going to the city of New Orleans and having problems with Lestat and his ways, Claudia and Louis create a plan to kill Lestat by poisoning him and slitting his throat. After they leave what they thought to be a dead Lestat, they make plans to travel to Europe to attempt to find more vampires like them, so they don't have to be the only vampires living in America. After many failed attempts to find intelligent vampires, they find a cult of vampires in Paris, France, and join their ranks in an abandoned theatre. Lestat then returns and the other vampires put Louis and Claudia to death for attempting to kill a fellow vampire, but Louis escapes with the leader of the vampire cult, Armand. The rest of the book is about Louis's return to America as a loner vampire, living in the shadows, and then concludes back in the interview. This book demonstrated many gender roles that can be seen clearly. Claudia uses her cute and innocent appearance to draw in her victims, and this defy’s a females gender role when thinking about how women are supposed to be kind and gentle, and defiantly not human eating monsters like Claudia. It is also important to know that Claudia was a fully matured and grown woman, just in a little girl’s body, so her actions do not reflect her age appearance, which goes against the gender role for a little girl. Louis also defies gender assumptions because he is portrayed as not only a man, but also a mother figure for Claudia, helping her the same way Lestat did with him. This book displays gender as something that doesn’t really matter and has no concrete definition, and it can be seen throughout the entire story.