The Affects Of Twilight
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Twilight, the beloved novel world wide. No one is quite sure why this vampire romance saga is so addicting and hypnotizing to it’s readers. But, hypnotizing and addicting it surely is. Fans are so absorbed in Stephenie Meyer’s creative wording and and vision she puts in her head, that at some point you don’t even know what you’re reading. Women’s independence is something that has been battled since time began. Women have always been criticized to be less then men. What we do not realize, is that Meyer’s novel digs back up that problem of men being the “dominant species.”
In Twilight, you are experiencing the adjustment of a girl from living with her mother in sunny Phoenix, to her dad in rainy Forks. The typical girl with the typical divorced family is what is projected to you. Already, you see this teenager make sacrifices for other people’s happiness and representing selflessness. And then she sees this mysterious, beautiful, stunning, dazzling, and quiet boy on the other side of the cafeteria. In entering biology, she is offended by his rude behavior. He stares at her in the most vile way that it makes her have self-doubt…without even knowing the boy. At home, she ponders over this boy and what she could’ve possibly done to offend him. And there, the mistakes begin. She shouldn’t have given this boy a second thought because he sure didn’t even think of giving her one. She should’ve stood her ground and forgotten him all together, she though of what she could’ve of possible of done to offend him.
And then the next day, she plans to be assertive and independent and demand to know what his problem was. But the charm with which he intended to dazzle her, stunned and got her off her track. With his formal introduction–in other words, mask–Edward Cullen tries to make up for his fowl and inexcusable behavior.
Throughout the story, Edward starts becoming more interested in Bella, and Bella in Edward. This gets so obsessive to the point that he follows her on a night out with her friends. When Bella is confronted by some dangerous men in the alley way, who could’ve very much hurt her, Edward then comes to her rescue. After saving her, he demands her to distract him from driving back and ripping the mens’ heads off, and Bella doesn’t spare a single question to how he had found her there. At dinner, she has to know what he is, but somehow isn’t offended by the fact she has been followed, stalked, and lied too.
In New Moon, the follow-up novel, you are picking up at the story of star-crossed lovers. But now, after Edward continually tells Bella he loves her and will never leave her, he decided to pick up and leave. After leaving, Bella is broken and emotionless. Not a single sympathetic good-bye did he share, not a strand of love anywhere in his heartless goodbye. Bella, instead of trying to beat herself up and say she’s okay, she beats herself down and tells herself she’s meaningless. Her father, Charlie, states his case and tells her she just can’t be so lifeless. A close friend, Jacob, who has always been on Bella’s side helps her heal slowly. Instead of letting Edward go, and moving on to what was actually good for her, she tries to hurt herself in hopes of hallucinating and imagining his voice. Jacob always appreciates Bella, and feels terribly bad when he has to leave. Bella is broken all over again, and women independence is thrown even further down the road. The mistakes worsen when she decides to jump off a cliff and then go back to the wrong way–and Edward–it was before.
The saga being hopeless in that form from there on, I have decided to move onto the positive affect. I believe that Twilight, shows that any ordinary person can handle anything she puts her mind to and be selfless even when others around her aren’t. Also, you learn how to be brave, and grow as a person yourself.
New Moon adds to those skills when Bella keeps herself together after a traumatic and unfortunate happening, all for the love of her father. Pure selflessness. It also teaches you how to open up to change and people who are willing to help you. And eventually, it teaches you that no life and every life is worth more than your own.
Eclipse is the power of choosing and making choices. Growing up and asserting yourself, standing your ground is a big part of it too. Not letting drama get to you and acting like you’re not scared is something that every human being has to know in real life.
Breaking Dawn teaches you that not everything in the world has to be fought over. And your heart doesn’t divide at times, it grows. For people who try happy endings always come.
All books teach lessons, and all of them good things to know. And not just when you’re living in a world of werewolves and vampires, but also when you’re living in the current economy.
There is good and bad in anything, and whether you know it or not, there is even bad in Twilight. Things in life tend to look perfect from behind a mask, but you have to look past that and not get hypnotized. Look at all sides and know that nothing is absolutely perfect.
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Author: Princess Twilight
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About Me: I’m a Twilighter in my 20’s, who is married, has no children, and is a famous author to be. I love Twilight and always will. Soon my name will be printed on books and people will catch me being a singer-in-the-carer…but until those days come, I will be working on perfecting myself…and my singing!
courtney baker brown on Sun, 3rd Jan 2010 4:11 pm
i just read twilight for the first time for an english prodject and i loved it im gonna read all the books then go see the movies …. i love the way the author makes ever carractter different in there own way and she has the caraters doing there own thing
Rachel Garber on Sun, 9th May 2010 4:46 pm
I think this writer is missing the whole point of the story when Edward is rude to her, he is very attracted to her, both as a woman and as a “meal” He is “rude” to her, because he is trying to curb the vampire instinct that he thought he suppressed so long ago. She had no boyfriends or dates when she was living with her mother and so doesn’t believe that this beautiful boy could be in love with her, when there are so many girls around that she perceives as prettier. She also has lived with a mother who she perceives as much prettier than she is, and who probably never does anything to boost Bella’s own self esteem. As far following her, Edward died in 1918 when men (and boys) were raised to be protective of girls, since he never had a relationship either before his death in 1918, or had any attraction to any other girls, he carries with him the moral and ethical standards of the era in which he lived. He told her in Twilight that if his presence in her life ever put her life in danger, he would leave her. She was stalked and almost killed by James in Twilight, and then later at her birthday party at the Cullen’s home, Jasper is ready to kill her when she cuts herself, and thirst for her blood, thus Edward feels he cannot continue to put her life at risk with his presence, and he truly believes that she will eventually forget him. Jacob may have been a good friend to Bella, but each time she tries to show compassion for his feelings he takes advantage of her, and practically forces himself on her. When she makes her choice known to him, instead of giving up with good grace, the first he tells her he would rather see her dead, what kind of love is that, that wishes a girl dead rather than see her with another boy. I’ve heard of too many real cases where the girl was killed because the besotted boy couldn’t give her up. In Breading Dawn, when he comes to her wedding reception and she talks about leaving for her honeymoon, does he wish her happiness? No, he ridicules her for thinking she can have a real honeymoon with Edward. What kind of person is he to continue to ridicule the choice she made. If anyone is a stalker it is Jacob, he doesn’t know when to show the good grace of leaving her to her happiness, no matter how wrong he thinks her choice is. Ok she wants to become a vampire, but that is her choice, in fact Edward is appalled that she wants to be like him, and repeatedly tries to talk her out of changing. Edward is functioning as the boy who died in 1918, and who has had no experience in being anything less that a chivalrous boyfriend, and I think expecting him to function as a 21st century boy is unrealistic. He knows that Bella “attracts danger” as he observes her, this is his “first love” in any era, and his chivalry goes into overdrive, trying to keep her safe.