Twilight is an absorbing, rapid moving read written by Stephanie Meyer. It was her first book and an international best seller. It follows Isabella (Bella) swan, a seventeen year old girl as she moves to the small rainy town of forks to live with her dad Charlie. The first day of her new school she meets the Cullen’s, a mysterious inhumanely beautiful family, “they were faces you never expected to see except perhaps on the airbrushed pages of a fashion magazine. Or painted by an old master as the face of an angel.” Edward Cullen has chalky alabaster skin, golden enticing eyes and supernatural gifts. Bella knows he is anything but human but “It doesn’t matter to me.” The more time she spends with Edward, the more danger she is in, “I could …show more content…
Very rarely will her perfect charade slip, and you will see her true personality. Her halo of blond hair encircles her pallid, icy face and her menacing eyes send a shiver up your spine. As the series progress you find out why Rosalie is so bitter towards Bella.
Once you start to read Twilight you will not be able to put it down. You will not be able to eat, talk or even sleep until you have finished it and, when you have, you will start reading it again! Although Twilight is about monsters, vampires and the supernatural, it is actually a magnetic love story. You will begin to think your Bella, and that Edward is in love with you. Then you will be devastated when you remember that he is, in fact, not real. The book is written with a graceful air, and the many intricate twists of the plot tie in as the story moves forward. With Stephenie Meyer considered a new ‘J.K Rowling’ it’s no wonder Twilight has been making top book lists for over a year and there has been a film spin off (the second book, New Moon is due to hit the theatres in 4 months). I think this unique, distinctive book is definitely going to become a cherished book for this era.
I would recommend this book to anyone with a passion for mystery, suspense and paranormal happenings. The plot is sharp, funny, poignant and compelling. Since first reading this book it has become a worldwide phenomenon, and has captured the imagination of every romantic.
I would recommend this book to my friends who are interested in books that are filled with action, fantasy, life lesson and a bit of a romance. I believe that this book shows how true love is real, no matter what gender you are or who you choose to love. According to this book, “There’s someone out there who will one day find me and fall in love with me and prove that all this waiting actually meant something.” (pg.
The book is laced with emotionally and erotically boosted encounters. A person who would enjoy reading about vampires, the urge to keep reading comes within the first few chapters; in this story early as chapter three. The novel is a new vampire paradigm that casts a steady
In the article, "Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: The Unwarranted Backlash Against Fans of the World's Most Popular Vampire," Sady Doyle argues and criticizes that the Twilight series is not one of the best reads. When thinking of romance a lot of teenagers think of Romeo and Juliet, but this time it's a vampire and a human being. She offers her insight on how important it is to cater to a particular audience and how successful it is.
Stephenie Meyer also introduces a lot of new elements. For instance the most important entirely new element is that blood has a distinguished smell, a smell which can trigger the vampires hunting instinct. Edward calls the smell of Bella’s blood „ a drug” and „his personal brand of heroin”.
Bella is a quite clumsy seventeen-year-old girl who spent her life in Phoenix with her mom until she moves to cold, rainy Forks. She is the narrator and our protagonist girl in the book. Through many boys attracted to her, she falls in love with Edward Cullen.
Another important scene in the book is when Bella goes to Port Angeles with Jessica and Angela to help them pick out dresses and to also get a new book. She gets lost on her way back to meet her friends for dinner. Lost with four men are following her, Edward comes out of nowhere to rescue her. He fishtails around a corner and stops with the passenger door open next to Bella. He tells her to talk about something random to distract him from going back to kill Bella’s stalkers. After he rescues Bella, he takes her to dinner, where Bella interrogates Edward about how he knew where she was. The car ride home from Port Angeles is another scene where the movie’s timeline differs from the book. During the car ride Bella tells Edward her theories about him (Meyers 161). Her theories are built on the story she learned from an old tribe legend Jacob told her when they meet on the beach, revealing that she knows Edward is a vampire (183). This begins a new period in their relationship, where they trade off days asking one another questions about everything. The next day, they go on a hike up the mountain to Edward’s favorite spot, the meadow. He shows Bella why he and his family cannot be seen in the sunlight, being that his skin sparkles in the light. Edward then shows her what he is capable by using his
This book is a very good book. It is not one of my favorite books, but it is in, or somewhat close to, the top ten list. It has an intriguing story and has some humor in it to make sure that it isn’t all mellow.
The essentials of a vampire story are an older man representing corrupt values and a young innocent female that get destructed in order to continue the life force of the male. This can be applied to the Twilight series, as Edward uses Bella. Edward and Bella fall in love; stripping away her innocence, and is brought into the lifestyle of vampires. In the course of the movie Bella gets hunted and runs away; using all of her energy. She runs away from home, stripping her from her youth. Within the next few movies, Bella gets pregnant, destructing her body, and gives birth to Edwards baby in order to continue the life force of the male.
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, is a one-woman performance piece written and originally performed by Anna Deavere Smith, who was commissioned to transcribe regarding the 1992 Los Angeles riots corresponding with individual’s experiences, outlooks, and concerns that contributed to those who were exacerbated by the abominable and nerve racking riots. For her production, Smith interviewed hundreds of Los Angeles’ residents who were present during the occurrence of the riot. The entire script consists actual quotations from members of the Los Angeles community and their reflection on their personal experience being surrounded in the midlife crisis atmosphere. She applied Smith strived to maintain capturing an extensive range of perspectives of the situation by interviewing several individuals from various ethnicities, financial backgrounds to different occupations for instance, Koreans, Latinos, Whites, Blacks, poor and rich people, police officers and gang members. As a result of her contribution, she received positive feedback for her own work. The composed piece is combined with historical research to provide a significant examination of the underlying cause of the devastating riot. The play, Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, provides assistance to illuminate speculations and emotions of numerous diverse viewpoints behind the horrendous racial tensions, the perceived police brutality, and the absence of leadership, which is desperately needed for restoration.
I would definitely recommend this book to someone. It is a little slow but it has a good story line and it gets more interesting the more you read it and the deeper you get.
The book Night written by Ellie Wiesel is an autobiography about his experiences during the holocaust in 1944. He is a survivor and was only 12 at the time. Ellie had three sisters named Hilda, Bea and Tzipora. His parents ran a store in Transylvania where Ellie spent most of his childhood in. Ellie 's mentor who everyone referred to as Moishe the Beadle is poor men who taught and helped Ellie study the cabbala. Early in the war, Moishe was expelled from Sighet as well as all the other foreign Jews. A few months after, everything was back to normal for Ellie and everyone else. His teacher, Moishe the Beadle then returns from his near death experience and warns everyone that the Nazi will soon come after them. No one really listened to him and did not believe that stories he told or didn’t want to believe them. Soon after this, the anti-Semitic Measures had the entire Sighet Jews move into ghettos that were supervised. With everyone living in fear, the Wiesel family remained calm and did not complain once.
There are 7 main characters in the book “Twilight”. To begin with, Bella Swan is a beautiful, smart, pale - faced 17 year old, who has light brown hair and brown eyes. She moved to a rainy town called Forks to live with her father after her mother got re-married, and later on fell in love with Edward Cullen. Secondly, Edward Cullen is an “inhumanely gorgeous” vampire who studies in Forks High School. He has untidy bronze-coloured hair and eyes that alter from hazel to dark brown. He’s muscular, strong, fierce, fast and he can read other people’s minds, which is idiosyncratic(unique) in his family. Edward was the first member of the Cullen’s vampire family: he was transformed into a vampire in 1918 when dying from the Spanish Influenza. Thirdly, Carlisle Cullen is a young-looking world class surgeon, who is also extremely good looking.
A man of brown eyes. golden locks and a charming smile was loved by those who met him throughout his life his name was Edward Cullen. Edward has an ecstatic life full of love and laughter one may say it was perfect life. From the night that was going to change his life forever to the night that became what ended it all together. He was about to go wit Winter his future fiance and express his love t her when it all happened. He took a wrong turn that unfotunately ended it all, he crashed and the car flipped over and over and over until it stopped ending his life instantly.
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in the camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never." (9)
What makes a person choose a one-sided relationship? Obsession? Love? Why would anyone want to torture themselves knowing that their partner can never truly love them? What is insanity and why is it so popular among the gothic community? Wuthering Heights is a classic gothic novel by English author Emily Brontë. This novel deals with the passionate and ultimately doomed love of Catherine Earnshaw and the gypsy orphan Heathcliff and how their masochistic love destroyed themselves and the lives of the people they touched. On the other hand, there is the Twilight saga by contemporary young adult author, Stephanie Meyer. She brought forth a new kind of vampire who is not destroyed by sunlight but instead is transformed into a mesmerizing