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rossmacrae Inner circle Arlington, Virginia 2475 Posts |
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On 2010-10-11 01:11, LobowolfXXX wrote: In the book, long ago in his human life, Eli (a boy) was castrated by a vampire nobleman, which is how he got to be a vampire. It's quite an issue (though never explicitle explored) as to why Eli chose to live the centuries as a girl instead of a preadolescent boy. The rest of the book and the film, Eli never answers direct questions, and hints several times "I'm not a girl" (which the audience is left to think means "I'm not a human girl, I'm a vampire".) In Sweden, where the book was written, Eli is a boy's name. In that light, it's sad because she's "neither here nor there" both in the human/vampire sense and the gender sense, and it mirrors Oskar's situation: a boy whose treatment by the bullies includes abusive comments that he's a girl, and whose likely fate (and the only way he can really wind up loving Eli) is to become the next in her long line of once-human servants. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On 2010-10-11 00:24, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Typo: I meant "not an equal of the original". My apologies.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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