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Let The Right One In
A slide show by Gunnar Harrison
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John Ajvide Lindqvist• Born in 1968 in Blackeberg, Sweden.• Specializes in horror stories.
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Oskar
• Main protagonist.• 12-year-old victim
of school bullies.• Parents are
divorced due to alcoholic abuse.
• Lives next to a very strange girl.
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Hakan
• Pedophile.• Collects blood to feed
to Eli, the vampire girl he lives with.
• Becomes mutated towards the end and hunts Eli and Oskar down.
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Favorite Character: Eli
• Oskar’s vampire next door neighbor.
• Becomes very good friends with Oskar.
• Can only come out at night.
• Very old; her past and creation are mysterious.
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Least Favorite Character: Oskar’s Father
• A raging alcoholic.• Divorced from
Oskar’s mother after one of his alcohol-induced outbursts.
• Oskar visits him from time to time.
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Exposition
• Oskar is a bullied boy at school who has no friends until he meets Eli, his mysterious next-door neighbor who’s also a vampire. Insane events unfold.
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Rising Action
• The rising action occurs when Hakan escapes the hospital. He is physically deformed and is on the hunt for Oskar and Eli.
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Climax• The climax occurs
when Hakan and Eli face off in the basement of their apartment complex.
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Falling Action
• After the police find the bodies and Hakan is defeated, the action starts to fall into a more soothing tone.
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Resolution
• Hakan is dead and Oskar is still alive and doing well. Or so it seems… The ending of this book is the most satisfying thing I’ve ever read.
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Setting
• Blackeberg, Sweden
• 1982• A dreary, dark
place.
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Theme
• Dark (vampires, violence)
• Warm (coming of age romance)
• Uplifting (mostly the ending)
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Personal Rating
• 9/10. It’s a very well written book that will reward the reader as long as you can stomach some of the more brutal sections. A very satisfying ending.
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Social Issue
• I’ve chosen to write about alcohol abuse as my social issue. It’s a common problem throughout the world that needs to be recognized more often.
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Song
• “Bostons” by Have Heart
“…and in this father I hardly know, was a son who took back what the bottle stole.”
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Poem
• “Please Stop, Mom” by Kayla S. Birdno
• http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/family/poetry.asp?poem=1553
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News Broadcast
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/interlock-ignition-devices-required-convicted-drunken-drivers/story?id
=8819759
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Local News Story
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9586464
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National News Story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/sports/ncaafootball/19drunk.html?_r=1
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Website Article
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/is-dui-a-felony.html