Louis de Pointe du Lac Timeline & Summary

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• In the present, Louis tells his life story to a boy interviewer. Get ready for a book-length flashback!
• It's 1791, and human Louis watches his human brother die. While grieving, he is bitten by a vampire, Lestat, who later turns him.
• Louis and Lestat live on Louis's estate, Pointe du Lac, until the slaves realize that these two handsome men never age, never go out in the daytime, etc. Yeah. They're vampires.
• After burning down Pointe du Lac, Louis and Lestat flee to the nearby Freniere plantation. When Babette Freniere releases them the next morning, she tells Louis she thinks he's of the devil, setting many centuries of self-hatred into motion.
• Shortly after the two vampires move to New Orleans, Louis, who previously tried feeding only on rats, feeds on a five-year-old girl. Lestat later finds the same girl, names her Claudia, and turns her into a vampire.
• As Claudia ages—in years, but not in size—she grows to hate Lestat and begins to plan his death.
• She poisons Lestat, slits his throat, and makes Louis bury him in the swamp.
• Lestat returns. Louis and Claudia burn down their apartment and flee to Europe.
• In Eastern Europe, Louis and Claudia encounter the Revenants—primitive vampires ruled by instinct. They're afraid they'll never find vampires like themselves.
• However, in Paris, they're invited by the vampires Armand and Santiago to the Théâtre des Vampires.
• Louis falls in love with Armand and turns a doll-maker named Madeleine into a vampire to be Claudia's guardian.
• Santiago, working for Lestat, who has returned to the Théâtre des Vampires, kidnaps Louis, Claudia, and Madeleine, and burns the women in the sun.
• In a fit of vengeance, Louis burns down the Théâtre des Vampires with all the vampires inside.
• Louis and Armand return to New Orleans, where, conveniently, Lestat has also returned. Louis pities Lestat, for he has become a shell of his former self.
• Armand confesses that it was he who killed Claudia, and he leaves.
• In the present, Louis, sad and alone, bites his interviewer after he says he wants to become a vampire, too. Louis doesn't care whether the boy lives or dies.