Death

Death plays a major part as a theme throughout the entire novel of The Silver Kiss, seen either in its most direct form in the death of the victims of the vampires (and indeed the vampires themselves), or implied through the encroaching loss of Anne Sutcliff, Zoe's mother, and even the death of the close friendship between Zoe and Lorraine.

Death is perhaps the silent character though out the novel as we see its effects on the character of Zoe and her family around her. It is through experiencing and dealing with the notion of death that both the main characters of the book, Zoe and Simon, comes to achieve resolution and develop their respective character's.

The possibility of the loss of her mother is the most obvious way in which death interfaces with the character of Zoe, and it is though her avoidance and reluctance to deal...