Let The Right One In

A slide show by Gunnar Harrison

John Ajvide Lindqvist• Born in 1968 in Blackeberg, Sweden.• Specializes in horror stories.

Oskar

• Main protagonist.• 12-year-old victim

of school bullies.• Parents are

divorced due to alcoholic abuse.

• Lives next to a very strange girl.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Rising Action

• The rising action occurs when Hakan escapes the hospital. He is physically deformed and is on the hunt for Oskar and Eli.

Climax• The climax occurs

when Hakan and Eli face off in the basement of their apartment complex.

Falling Action

• After the police find the bodies and Hakan is defeated, the action starts to fall into a more soothing tone.

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.

Setting

• Blackeberg, Sweden

• 1982• A dreary, dark

place.

Theme

• Dark (vampires, violence)

• Warm (coming of age romance)

• Uplifting (mostly the ending)

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.

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.

YouTube Video

Abuse Commercial

Song

• “Bostons” by Have Heart

“…and in this father I hardly know, was a son who took back what the bottle stole.”

Poem

• “Please Stop, Mom” by Kayla S. Birdno

• http://www.familyfriendpoems.com/family/poetry.asp?poem=1553

News Broadcast

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/AheadoftheCurve/interlock-ignition-devices-required-convicted-drunken-drivers/story?id

=8819759

Local News Story

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=9586464

National News Story

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/sports/ncaafootball/19drunk.html?_r=1

Website Article

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/is-dui-a-felony.html