Vampire Thesis Statement Types part 2

Even a Vampire needs a thesis.

"Okay, why?" you ask.

Because a thesis tells the vampire the following about its action when it departs the coffin:

• Where to go to find its victims. Note that the where thesis statement translates into a focus on the settings and locations AND their importance in the written piece. A where thesis would run something like this, if you were writing an essay about the "Mysterious Stranger":

  The anonymous writer of "The Mysterious Stranger" places great emphasis on the old oak tree at the ruin of the Castle Klatka; this juxtaposition of the vampire and the oak tree emphasize the age of both, and the rootedness to location both this vampire and this tree experience. Neither can depart and each must have their food sources provided by nature.

• Who focuses on the characters themselves (Click here to open the Character Analysis page). and their motivations for getting out of the coffin. It tells the vampire what sort of individual it is (was?), and what sorts of people or creatures it will find when it arrives in its new location -- the smoke-filled bar where it can pick up its next McMeal.

  An example of the "Who"thesis statement for a paper about Kipling's "The Vampire" would be:

  Rudyard Kipling in his classic poem "The Vampire" characterized the protagonist as a fool for falling in love with a vampiric female who takes all he has to offer without ever really noting that "the fool" has feelings.

• When focuses on time-lines. It places the importance on the moment when the action happens. For instance:

  When Aubrey (Polidori's protagonist in "The Vampyre") discovers that his sister has fallen in love with the vampire, Lord Ruthven, he falls to pieces, and fails to protect his sister by placing more importance on his word to the vampire than on guarding his sister.

• How is often the meat and potatoes (okay, the life-blood) of a story. Howwill the vampire choose its victim? How will it choose to drink -- to the last drop or daintily leaving the victim hydrated? How will it move its coffin from point A to point B? Think Dracula and the importance of the method used by Count Dracula to move his boxes of soil to England. He is located by Dr. Helsing by tracking the movement of the boxes. So:

  The slayer in Leslie Ormandy's "The Slayer Wears Prada," uses her feminine appearance and her supposed frailty to lure vampires to her. She emphasizes her feminine qualities by wearing pretty, and pricey shoes.

• Why does a particular thing happen? Why does the stupid "hero" of Teick's "Wake Not The Dead" decide to go ahead and have the sorcerer return his dead wife to life, even after the sorcerer warns him to leave it alone? Try this:

  Johann Ludwig Tieck's protagonist in "Wake Not the Dead" begins by screaming "why" at the universe, as many of us do when we lose a loved one. This basic inability to move on after Brunhilda's death causes a multitude of trouble for all the people in his immediate vicinity.

• What can a vampire expect to find when it arrives at the bar where it wants to find a victim? If you think about it, What is really about our expectations, isn't it? It is a focus on what occurred instead of "how" it occurred. What is the normal behavior of vampire victims? What can we expect as "normal" behavior from the vampire created in any specific world? What happens when the vampire violates our expectations? So, what can we expect the vampire to do? Try:

  In "The Slayer Wears Prada" Leslie Ormandy plays with reader expectations by reversing the killer/victim roles. Here the female victim is really a killer, and the vampire (normally the killer) is the projected victim.