Summary Of Anne Rice's Novel Interview With The Vampire

Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) takes the life of vampire Louis Pointe du Lac as the subject matter. A reporter wants to listen to his story so Louis starts to tell how he became a vampire and what he had been through. Louis mentions that he used to be a plantation master and he suffered a lot after the death of his wife while giving birth to their child in 1791 of Spanish Louisiana. Then he is turned into a vampire by Lestat and hates being a vampire after killing people and regretting doing so. He prefers to feed on the animals’ blood instead of killing more people. One day while he wanders around in New Orleans he comes across with a little girl named Claudia who weeps over her mother’s death of plague then Lestat appears and turns Claudia into a vampire for the aim of creating a daughter of their own in order …show more content…
The movie based on the novel by Rice could be a very good example for demonstrating the issue because of remaining faithful to the author’s style of conveying the dark images. The scenes when Louis visits the cemetery in New Orleans could be an example or the scene when he finds Claudia while wandering around could be another example. Walker Percy in “The City of the Dead” points the gloomy characteristics of the Crescent City which could be why Anne Rice and the other authors celebrate the city as the home of the vampires and supernatural beings. For Percy, the cemeteries of New Orleans are even more developed in architecture than the rest of the city. “Mark Twain once said that New Orleans had no architecture to speak of except in the cemeteries.” (Long, 249) Those remarkable cemeteries could be one reason why the supernatural occurrences are found in New Orleans. The racially and culturally heterogeneous population of NOLA may be the thing that tolerates and accelerates kinds of supernatural