Chapter 3 Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires In the chapter “Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires”, Foster enlightens the reader to meaning behind vampire stories which is the old and corrupt figure preying on the young. Another way of putting it is the exploitation of others in order to get what we want. This essence does not simply apply to just vampire stories, it can be found in most suspense and scary novels. More importantly the chapter leads to the understanding that a loss of your ground or power will lead to eventual suffering as vampires live in all of us due to our innate selfish nature. This theme is prevalent in the novel Misery by Stephen King as are most of his horror and suspense novels. The main character, Paul Sheldon, finds
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Miles the main character decides to leave his family and attends a boarding school. Miles grows up a lot in his first few months of being at this new boarding school. He begins to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, fall in love and have sex. Miles loses his childhood purity like that of Adam and Eve at the fall of man. Miles’ banishment from the garden comes in the form of never really knowing the one he loved Alaska. She will continue to remain a mystery to him. He continues to wonder if she loved him back along with always asking ‘what if...’ questions pertaining to his relationship with Alaska. This guilt and silliness is felt by Miles and probably by Adam and Eve at the Fall of …show more content…
The hero is our Nick Carraway. Nick comes from a the midwest and leaves his family for a chance to become a successful stockbroker in New York (a place to go and the stated reason). While Nick begins to hit it big and investing in books to assist in his goal, he meets with Daisy his cousin and begins to be captivated by the upper class of West and East Egg (dangers along the way). Drama continues to unfold as the relationships of Gatsby, Daisy, Tom and Myrtle begin to get more complex. As the story progresses he no longer cares to be a broker and learns what is really going down in high class society (real reason for going). Nick realizes that when things go bad for the rich they recede into their money like Tom and Daisy do. For Nick he sees that money makes everything better in the eyes of the corrupt rich and their lack of character. By the end of the book Nick is deeply involved with the upper class and knows that they lack american values and killed the american
Miles the main character decides to leave his family and attends a boarding school. Miles grows up a lot in his first few months of being at this new boarding school. He begins to smoke cigarettes, drink alcohol, fall in love and have sex. Miles loses his childhood purity like that of Adam and Eve at the fall of man. Miles’ banishment from the garden comes in the form of never really knowing the one he loved Alaska. She will continue to remain a mystery to him. He continues to wonder if she loved him back along with always asking ‘what if...’ questions pertaining to his relationship with Alaska. This guilt and silliness is felt by Miles and probably by Adam and Eve at the Fall of …show more content…
The hero is our Nick Carraway. Nick comes from a the midwest and leaves his family for a chance to become a successful stockbroker in New York (a place to go and the stated reason). While Nick begins to hit it big and investing in books to assist in his goal, he meets with Daisy his cousin and begins to be captivated by the upper class of West and East Egg (dangers along the way). Drama continues to unfold as the relationships of Gatsby, Daisy, Tom and Myrtle begin to get more complex. As the story progresses he no longer cares to be a broker and learns what is really going down in high class society (real reason for going). Nick realizes that when things go bad for the rich they recede into their money like Tom and Daisy do. For Nick he sees that money makes everything better in the eyes of the corrupt rich and their lack of character. By the end of the book Nick is deeply involved with the upper class and knows that they lack american values and killed the american