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Week2: Interview with a Vampire 6 pt.

Week2: Interview with a Vampire

9/19/2020

This week I read Interview with a Vampire, which I have heard songs named after it, and I have seen clips of the 1994 movie version. The book depicts Louis’s psychology in a very delicate and descriptive way. I can feel his loneliness and confusion clearly which makes me constantly fall into that atmosphere. The most painful thing is the feeling that everyone is drunk and I wake up alone. That's what happened to Louis. He couldn't find a place that he belongs to. He has immortality but he doesn't know the meaning of it, and he can't even find a companion. 


I felt heartbreaking when he says, “I had now lived in two centuries, seen the illusions of one shattered by the other, been eternally young and eternally ancient, possessing no illusions, living moment to moment in a way that made me picture a silver clock ticking in a void: the painted face, the delicately carved hands looked upon by no one, looking out at no one, illuminated by a light which was not a light, like the light by which god made the world before He had made light. Ticking, ticking, ticking, the precision of the clock, in a room as vast as the universe.” He has been looking for the way to return to human society, but with hundreds of years of searching, it turned out nothing. Even though Louis may have been a vampire, but he never stopped thinking as a human being, and he thought as we humans too. Louis feels cursed between good and evil. He does the devil's work with human nature, and does "evil" with his kindness, but he is already not human.


As the time passes, the things that happened before the century have become memories. The love and hate between vampires have gone away or hidden in the bottom of the heart. Louis has been left with an old but young body. When He finished his story, I can truly feel my relief which makes me feel good somehow.

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