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Topic Exploration for (2/3/10)
  • my focus genre: Vampires
  • my thoughts about this genre or this project: I like this genre because i like to read these kind of books.
  • my questions about this genre or this project: What other genres are like this?
  • my to-do list for tomorrow: read articles


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  • The spooky CEO (Sam Neill) of a blue-chip red-cell bottler has his best hematologist (Ethan Hawke) working
    on inventing a synthetic blood substitute.
  • LEAVING aside its obvious flaws (of which there are many) and subtle merits (of which there could have been more), Daybreakers is the vampire movie we had to have. If you think we have to have them at all, that is.
  • It's the year 2019. While most of the population are now vampires -- the result of a mass viral outbreak years earlier -- life has been proceeding as (ab)normal.
    Sure, everyone does have to work the night shift, but it's a small price to pay for immortality.

" EBSCOhost - world’s foremost premium research database service." EBSCOhost - world’s foremost premium research database service. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb. 2010. <http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=47382483&site=ehost-live>.


Questions:

  1. Are there many authors that write these books?
  2. Is this one of the biggest talked about genres?
  3. How do writers persuade their readers?
  4. How do authors hook readers into vampie books?
  5. Does every author see vampires as the same?
  6. What literary elements are used?
  7. What symbols are used most?
  8. Whats the biggest book that has this genre?