Jugs and Let the right one in

[intrige]

So I was as usual looking something up in the novel. (You'll know later why ) Anyway, I got stuck reading something else, as usual. I came in while Lacke was to stab Eli when oskar hit his cube in Lacke's head. When he fell, he fell on lots of empty jugs. (Mabye filling the bathtub with blood) Like some have suggested on the forum before Or mabye it just was a place to keep all the jugs Håkan was to fill with blood. or if they lost one, they had more. O.o

So to Let the right one in.
The very last chapter in the book is called just that right? And is also as we all know the tittle of the book. Now booktittles tend to be a very important quote from the book. So, in the last chapter that is a very importent one. Where Oskar almost drowns, and (Micke?) let's Eli in. LETTING THE RIGHT ONE IN TO SAVE OSKAR!!Get it, get it?!!

Thoughts, ideas?? Anything?
Deres 'trige I think I'll use that one as an sort of second signature I like it..Deres means your in Norwegian.(In more than one person, if it's only one person I'll say it to It's the same as in Swedish. Din.. Mabye for longer threads.. We'll see. (Sorry for being off topic in my own thread O.o XD)
Have a very nice day people!

[bore]

So to Let the right one in.
The very last chapter in the book is called just that right? And is also as we all know the tittle of the book. Now booktittles tend to be a very important quote from the book. So, in the last chapter that is a very importent one. Where Oskar almost drowns, and (Micke?) let's Eli in. LETTING THE RIGHT ONE IN TO SAVE OSKAR!!Get it, get it?!!

Thoughts, ideas?? Anything?

Letting someone in... Eli lets Oskar in and gets love in return. Oskar lets Eli in and gets the same.
Micke lets Eli in, lost his friends, lost everything for someone else to be happy. Bully or not, perhaps he is the true hero of the novel.

[intrige]

Let the right one in fits well to many things..

Bully or not, perhaps he is the true hero of the novel.

Mabye.. Mabye

[Sevil Ile]

Let the right one in. The very last chapter in the book is called just that right?

Well, in the English version of the book, the last chapter is titled "Let the Right One Slip In" (which is exactly the name of the Morrisey song from which the novel derives its name), but in essence this is the same thing. (As you may have deduced, I am slightly anal-retentive regarding details.)

LETTING THE RIGHT ONE IN TO SAVE OSKAR!! Get it, get it?

Seems like a sensible interpretation to me (and this is the way I have always personally read it). The recurring theme throughout the book is, as bore pointed out, Eli and Oskar's reciprocal admission of one another into their respective lives, but the fact that the last chapter is separately titled (even slightly differently, to distinguish it from the novel title) does imply a "micro significance" within the context of that chapter alone, as opposed to the entire novel. It may, thus, well be that the "right one" in the context of just this chapter is Eli, and the one letting him in is, as you correctly identified, Micke, the reluctant bully (well, less reluctant than in the movie, but certainly more so than Jonny and Tomas, even in the book).

Nicely noticed, although I'm not sure what this has to do with jugs?

[Ash]

"Virginia! Virginia! My darling, beloved . .." At last he was able to get the words out.
There were quite a few people letting each other in.
I still don't even know if the title refers to Eli letting Oskar in, or vice versa, or both.

[intrige]

Yes! I think the same thing. That oslar Let Eli into his heart, and the boesite.. And with Lacke and verginia too..I was just taking a closer look at that last chapter..XD

[Nicro]

I have to agree that the "Letting In" covers more than just one instance in the book. Its all over the place.

[Casper]

Here's the only sense I can make from the jugs. They jugs had been there for a while it would seem. It also seems they were not for drinking, but rather for soaking in when the necessity arose.
Now many of us humans take precautionary measures for various events in everyday life, roadside emergency kits in cars, first aid kits at home, fire extinguisher in the kitchen, etc.
I have always assumed that this was Eli's "Oh Sh!t" blood supply in case he got extremely injured and needed a good blood soak to recuperate.

As to the "Let the Right One In" reference, in an interview with JAL in Austrailia, he states:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmY9hMymqkM
"And the idea for me was that...you yourself had to invite the thing that might destroy you or save you, but it doesn't come by itself, you have to invite it. And most of the people who invite Eli, the vampire, in are destroyed, but not the protagonist."

So it would seem he also intended the term to carry the weight of multiple meanings.

[metoo]

About the jugs and Eli sleeping in blood:

The blood-filled bathtub isn't necessary, the scene is just as exciting the way it is done in the movie. I think JAL overdid this in the novel. It creates consistency cracks, Eli does wash - where? Not in the bathtub, anyway, if he didn't first scoop up the blood and return it to the jugs. We would have to assume that the blood is from animals, Håkan just isn't good enough a blood collector to get that amount of human blood. But getting that amount of blood into the apartment under the spying eyes of the neighbours would be problematic. I think, though, that obtaining it might not be. He might be able to order it from a butcher, saying that he was to make his own blackpudding from his granny's recepy, or something.

Thus, I prefer to regard the film as canon on this particular subject.

[intrige]

I have heared JAL say that one of the reasons he took the "bloodbath" away in the screenplay for the movie, was that it had no good reason to be there. So the blood might just as well be an overdoing ..

And to the tittle and all..
Yes, I have seen that interview, and I knew about this. Once again, I was looking at the situation in the end here...