tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305974439490399466.post3006389866578940072..comments2010-12-11T11:34:42.473-08:00Comments on JenStick: Literary Citicism EssayJenStickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18170425050511418135noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1305974439490399466.post-44069365236927048662010-12-03T18:51:40.767-08:002010-12-03T18:51:40.767-08:00Jenstick, I enjoyed your essay. You did a good jo...Jenstick, I enjoyed your essay. You did a good job of explaining some of the concepts that the literary essay presented kudos! I really liked the idea you interpreted from the essay involving being mindful of the history of the novel as it was being written. It seems obvious, yet can be easily missed. Modern tales such as Let the Right One In would not be possible in an earlier time such as when Stoker wrote Dracula or when Le Fanu penned Carmilla. The ideas that Let the Right One In represent would not be applicable think about the character Hakan would the views of a pedophile be something that Victorian England would be comfortable reading about. Most likely not. One of the most important features, I believe, of reading the books in the chronological order we have has been the juxtaposition of the different historical themes and how these ideas enhance or obstruct our viewing of the novel as a whole. <br /><br />I really found the idea of the perfect someone to be compelling. Both in the way Tyree suggests and in the thoughts you present. I had not previously considered the vampires of today as “a sort of guardian angel with fangs”. Thinking about that it seems to be an apt metaphor. These characters listed from Twilight, True Blood, or Let the Right One In are lonely and are seemingly capable of overlooking their own inadequacy in order to attempt a normalish relationship. Our society is very much obsessed with this idea; consider the wide array of media dedicated to ‘finding’ true love. Whether it is in a romantic comedy about seemingly mismatched people, of which about a dozen of these films are released each year. Or a television show, slowly dragging out a story line for weeks and weeks when you know that the people are destined to be together. We are culturally fixated on finding that “perfect” someone, but is that really such a bad thing?Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02734199153487558659noreply@blogger.com