By: Juan Salazar

THE WEREWOLF AND ITS MODERN APPEALS.

ORIGIN

• Greek Mythology

• Lycanthropes

TODAY..

BOOK ADAPTATIONS

• In pop culture, people have been turning into wolves on screen as far back as 1913’s silent film “The Werewolf,” but the teenage-werewolf story really begins in 1953

-Alex Pappademas. “We are all Teenage Werewolves” New York Times.

• “The horror of Werewolves”- a compare and contrast article of the werewolves from the past and today

• He explains the werewolf characteristic as a bloodthirsty monster when the myth was first told and the modern day werewolf, which is a male teen that lives a normal life and has the same anxieties as any other teenage male like grades, girls and sports.

• The author proclaims, “what is next?” as in what new transformation of the werewolf character will there be in the next following years.

RESEARCH SOURCES

• ALEX, PAPPADEMAS. "We Are All Teenage Warewolves." New York Times Magazine (2011): 34. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.“The history of the Werewolf Legend” By Shelly Barclay. Historic Mysteries. 2011

• The Horror Of Werewolves." Scholastic Scope 60.4 (2011): 17-19. Academic Search Complete. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.

• Barclay , Shelly. "The History of the Werewolf Legend." Historic Mysteries. (2011): n. page. Web. 18 Mar. 2013.

THESIS

In our society today the werewolf are now viewed as appealing male adolescents, with their characteristics, in the movie and show productions to attract viewers.

QUESTIONS?