In Charlaine Harris’s “Dead Until Dark” the underlying theme is about the way our society deals with diversity. If you are different, you will be discriminated against. Throughout the novel, we see the vampire’s struggles, trying to get the right to vote and marry, as we’ve seen minority groups struggle to do in the past. All the humans in the novel make it clear they dislike vampires and some even organized a hate crime, burning vampires alive. The main character, Sookie, is a telepath shunned by the rest of the town because she is a telepath. Repeatedly in the story we see the unique characters being judged by the small town folk. Towards the beginning of the story, women known to hang around vampires start getting murdered. Of course,
