Interview with a vampire is an interesting story when you start to peal back the layers. Anne Rice did a fantastic job capturing what it means to be a vampire while taking it and brining it to the 20th century. Her stories center around Luis and Lestat, vampires who travel together. The story initial beings when Luis sits down with a interviewer and agrees to tell his life story. The tale begins with him loosing his brother. Wishing death, he comes across Lestat who grants him his wish only to bring him back as a vampire. This is the beginnings of a very long and very hard to describe relation ship between the two. Lestat seems to need Luis as much as Luis needs him. He feeds of Luis' companionship, needs it and Luis needs him to help him in his first years of being a vampire. Luis soon feels he needs to leave Lestat, but is forced to stay with him when Lestat turns a orphan girl into a vampire. This is very reminiscent to something a failing marriage might encounter. Many a failing couple will try to have a baby to keep the marriage together, they feel that if they bring another thing into the equation that they must both care for, then neither can leave with out hurting something that isn't directly involved with the conflict. Luis takes Claudia under his wing as a child and trys to care for her the best he can. He forms a stronger bond with her than she does with Lestat. Claudia loathes Lestat for bringing her into the world of the vampires as a child. Many children of broken homes also share these feelings. They feel anger and hatred towards one or both parents. They think that there hard life, which is usually broken and full of confusion, is there parents fault. They blame them for bringing them into a world/family that they can not be trulyy loved. The parents cannot fully care for the child because they have to many emotions and time devoted into a broken marriage and a failing relationship.
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