The topic of class seemed to focus of the discussion of good vs. bad. Not many people could decide if Gilda was a good character or a bad, many people put her in the middle of not being either because she has both good and bad qualites. Although Gilda does take people's blood (because she needs it) she reads there mind and tries to figure out what is wrong with them. This would allow Gilda to help them. Although this can be seen as selfish, it is the main thing she needs to survive and because of that should Gilda be labeled as "bad" because she is doing the necessity to survive?

On the other hand Eleanor is on the bad end of the spectrum for sure. She is mean and manipulative and does not care what she does to other people. To me, what makes Eleanor worse than just "bad" is that sometimes she doesn't even do the bad thing herself, she drives other people to do it. For example, she used her "friendship" with Samuel's wife to make Samuel very jealous causing him to kill her.

After class and thinking about this discussion, I realized that Gilda could be labeled as good because she is doing just the necessary to survive, she is not being selfish and killing for blood, and nobody can be faulted for keeping themselves alive.

Cassidy Weeks, Post 2