Going into this class I really didn't know a lot about vampires and their mythology. I just had seen them in violent horror movies in the past and never really read about them in novels. So in a way this book has opened my eyes to the world of vampire novels and how they are portrayed differently in different forms of media. What was really interesting was in chapter one we learned about the ways the vampires acted and their mannerisms. To my surprise the vampires were civilized and generally good people. They only had to feed when they had to and didn't take thrill or pleasure from the feeding. They only did it to sustain their life. Mostly in pop culture you see violent vampires who take pleasure in stalking and killing their victims. Even starting with the earliest Dracula films this stereotype of violent vampires has been around. So this book strays away from that trend which I think is a very interesting view on vampires. This really opened my eyes to see that vampires our portrayed in different ways and people accept the different ways the vampires are portrayed.
Then when we read chapter two we learned that not all vampires are good. Some vampires do fit the stereotype that pop culture had portrayed them in years based. The vampire in the book Eleanor, fits that example of a vampire that takes thrill in violence and bringing pain unto people, be it some type of physical pain or mental pain. She likes to play mind games with people like she did with Samuel and the situation with his wife, as well as instigating violence like how she wanted Gilda to kill. So in the novel there is an extreme clash of vampire "values" in the book, there are good vampires and bad ones. I predict maybe throughout the novel we will see more of this confrontation between the two sects of vampires and the different values they have and believe in.
Post Number Two Kenny Liszewski
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