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Option 1a
9/12/2013
Intro to Fiction 045
When I read
Freniere (from Interview with the
Vampire), it reminds me of Twilight-Breaking
Dawn, which is the first movie of the whole series. They have a lot of
common to share.
Firstly,
the places in this story and movies are both pretty. In the story, everything
happens in New Orleans. When follow narrator’s description. “the planters,
always the planters, coming to town with their families in shining landaus to
buy evening gowns and sliver and gems, to crowd the narrow streets on the way
to the old French Opera and the Theatre d’ Orleans, and the St. Louis
Cathedral….(Oates 349)” we can feel that New Orleans is a romantic place, where
different people coming from various races live in a great harmony. In the
movie, the heroine Bella Swan moves to live with her father in Forks,
Washington. It is a small town, where werewolf and vampire both lives. People
are nice. Bella makes friends on the first day of school. I also remember the
scene that Edward takes Bella to show her his vampire power. The forest is
right next to the school. I am fascinated by the movie, how close to the nature
that the school is.
Other than
the place setting, the vampires in both stories and movies shares some common
features. They are immoral. The only thing that is slightly different is that
the Vampire in the stories is scared of cold. But, the vampire in the movie is
scared of fire. I smiled when I read that the vampire said: “I killed
animals…Lestat killed humans all the time…(Oates 351)” This totally reminds me
of the movie. The Cullen family tries very hard to control their appetite to
only eat animals to satisfy their need for blood. This makes me believe that they all are good
to human, and may be they are not that kind of scary. On the other hand, Lestat
in the story will kill human, this happen to be the same in the movie. In the
Twilight, there are also some bad vampires who drink people’s blood. Though the
story does not tell us how the people become the vampire, I can visualize the
scene thanks to the movie.
Rice, Anne. “Freniere”. American
Gothic Tales. Ed. Joyce Carol Oates. New York: Plume, 1996.
349-357. Print.
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