During the week we worked on discussion questions from each chapter of The Gilda Stories that we read. The final question asked, "what do you think Gomez's purpose was in writing The Gilda Stories?" I personally think this story's purpose was to take the reader out of reality and cause us as readers to be more open minded. In a way, it takes us out of our comfort zones and forces us to see things different from the norm. I believe this method by Gomez was effective.
Usually when we think of vampires, we get the image of a white male or female. However, Gilda's character is very unique. Not only is she black, but she is a female as well. Once we discover this it is very obvious that The Gilda Stories would not be the average novel. From that point on we read about situations that would never happen in reality, such as vampires traveling from place to place turning humans into vampires. Gomez somewhat places us into a different world that we are trying to understand as the novel progresses.
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