This is where Tyree's false friendship can best be demonstrated; vampires will befriend their food before feeding sometimes. With Let The Right One In and Dracula, both vampires are shown to be more than evil at the beginning of their respective novels. Eventually, it is revealed that Eli, who Oskar believes is a girl, is actually a boy who has been mutilated and has no real genitals. This leads to a new kind of perversion when Eli tells Oskar that he's "not really a girl." Eli is eventually revealed to be a character who has been molested, raped, and mutilated. Likewise, Dracula is a character who fought to preserve his homeland and is well educated. When Van Helsing stumbles upon Dracula's library, he observes how amazed he is by the breadth of its contents. Van Helsing's amazement makes Dracula's threat more honestly authentic; he is able to use technology and research just like his Victorian counterparts. In essence, he is the same as them, and not the myth of the evil vampire, just as Eli is not a wild and evil child, but a complex