Are the early losses of blood that Louis suffers before going through the more officially mentioned steps that Lestat puts him through important? If not, we start with:
Step One: Death of the overseer. It is sort of ironic, actually... Louis watches as Lestat kills the overseer... he "oversees" that death, and is made to approve of it. Hahaha, fun.
+ Remove the body. Probably not for the purpose of the change, but for the purpose of concealing what happened. Eh.
+ Beating the body. Same. They made it look like robbers had done the deed...
Step Two: Somewhat necessary for the whole mentality... the discovery that Louis secretly does desire life.
Step Three: Exchange of blood. We all know what this is about...
+ The world, for Louis, is changed.
Step Four and Five: The slow removal of "living" fluids from the body/the death of the body and the first kill...
How much of that is really, truthfully the process and how much of it is just what Louis encountered? How is this the same, or different, from other processes we encounter in other novels?
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I was wondering that myself. Lestat was so decided in teaching Louis the ways of a vampire. How much were the ways and how much was just Lestats ways? I suppose a lot of it was necessary so he came become desensatized to any secondary emotion he would feel as a vampire. But I would think he would have fugured out most of that stuff of his own, especially when he has such an awful teacher as Lestat...
ReplyDeleteThe only real comparison I see between Lucy's transformationa and Louis's is that they both were a long process. It seems that Louis needed to be aware of his transformation whereas Lucy was totally unaware of it. That was what stood out the most to me.
Oh, well, obviously not all of that is required, hm? After all, Claudia only required the double drinking.
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, what's this crap about Lestat claiming that he can create vampires, but Louis and Claudia don't have the ability?