The vampires of Interview With the Vampire all have different personalities. Not every vampire is alike. Louis and Lestat are complete opposites. Lestat insists in living in luxury and enjoys toying with his prey before he kills them. Louis is very quiet, cultured, and doesn’t like killing more than he has to. Claudia is almost a combination of both Lestat and Louis because she was too young when she was changed to remember much of her human life. She enjoys killing but also spends a lot of time reading and learning.
When Louis and Claudia go to Europe, they search the central part of the continent for others like them. They find isolated villages whose people are very convinced that vampires exist and are attacking their village. Claudia and Louis look for the vampires and find them…but they are very different. These vampires of central Europe have an insatiable thirst. Blood is all they think about. They have no mind and attack whoever comes near them, human or vampire.
Eventually they end up in Paris and they stay in a hotel there. One night while wandering the streets and back alleys of the city, Louis realizes that there is someone following him. The man mimics him exactly but overpowers him. The next night he receives an invitation to the Théâtre des Vampires where he and Claudia see people scared out of their mind on stage by vampires. They later go backstage where the “actors” stay and talk to the vampires.
One of the vampires, Armand, is the sort of teacher that Louis would have liked to have had instead of Lestat. Louis and Armand feel very attached to each other. The vampire who invited them, Santiago, is very suspicious of Claudia and Louis because they refuse to talk about who made them. The female vampires adore Claudia as if she were the young girl that she looks like. Claudia notices that they are very into fads and conformity. All of the vampires are different from each other; none of them are alike.
This is different from the other books. In Dracula and I Am Legend, the vampires are all very similar. In these books, all of the vampires are blood thirsty monsters who are not at all concerned with the people around them. However, in this book, all of the vampires have different, more human, personalities.
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I think that it would have been better it you had been able to distinguish the different characteristics earlier. It might have been an easier break down but it is goood that you broke down the characteristics within the different books that you read.
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