I never finish bad books. This is a fact. If a book doesn’t captivate me by page five I am the kind of person to put it on a bookshelf and forget about it. So called great books such as ‘The Hunger Games’ and ‘Divergent’ have both failed my test of patience and mercilessly wound up collecting dust on one of my several bookshelves. This is a very common procedure at my house. But once in a while books such as ‘Twilight’ comes along. Books that are so bad I just can’t for the life of me put them down. In fact; I have to read the entire series, just to prove to myself that: Yes, it’s that bad!
The Twilight Saga was written in 2005 by Stephanie Meyer. The series consists of four books: ‘Twilight’’, ‘New Moon’, ‘Eclipse’ and ‘Breaking Dawn’. The main plot is about a 17 year old girl, Bella Swan, who decides to go live with her father in Forks, Washington. While there she gets to know the 109 year old vampire Edward Cullen. The two soon start dating which is the cause most of the conflicts throughout the series.
The character of Bella Swan is described by herself as a normal, boring and clumsy plain looking girl with brown hair and hazel eyes. All of this is later disproved when she, during her first week at a new school, is hit on by three different, popular guys, and when she stumbles and falls maybe once or twice in the entire series. The way she is portrayed as a female protagonist is disgraceful. She’s a fairy tale damsel in distress that constantly gets herself into stupid situations just so she can later be rescued by her true love. There is one scene in particular that stands out in this aspect. It’s during the first book of the series and takes place maybe a couple of months after she met Edward. One day while she’s out s...
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...a result broke up with their partner. I’ll be the first to admit that this terrifies me, the last thing this world need is more people suffering because of a book. There are girls defending it with that excuse: It’s just a book. Every time I hear that excuse it can’t help but sarcastically think: Yeah… because no one is stupid enough to fight over a book.
I’m not trying to say that everyone who enjoys ‘The Twilight Saga’ are stupid or unable to realize right from wrong. There is nothing wrong with having fun with a book while at the same time realizing it has some bad sides. It’s the ones that have trouble seeing this, the ones that can’t seem to separate fact from fiction that I worry about. Both the books and movies are, thankfully, finished by now and a lot of the hype has already settled so now I just hope that the entire thing will be history in not too long.
In bite me or don’t: twilight as abstinence porn, Christine Seifert from Westminster college in Utah, analyzes the twilight saga. Describing twilight saga as an abstinence porn saga. Christine agrees with twilight fans about the lost of abstinence and sexual tension in breaking dawn. Christine is a feminist writer from the Bitch magazine she emphasizes most of her critics towards Bella describing her as weak and with no control over her body (348). Seifert believes that Edward is in control of Bella’s protection, humanity and virginity.(348)Christine uses rhetorical strategies during her discussion, persuading the reader about the life of Bella as a teenage mom and how twilight transmits a message of abstinence.
Guy was never really sure what was so bad about the books. He never really
In the article, “Civilized Vampires Versus Savage Werewolves: Race and Ethnicity in the Twilight Series,” Natalie Wilson compares the physical appearance and qualities of the two main character groups in the Twilight series, and how they represent a much deeper issue of class and racial inequality. First, Wilson compares the physical traits of Edward Cullen and the vampires, who are extraordinarily beautiful and have pale white skin, to the traits of Jacob Black and the werewolves who have copper skin, dark features, and look animalistic. Wilson also compares their personalities, the vampires being intelligent and well behaved, and the werewolves who are irrational and hostile. The two are further compared by their wealth. Edward has a seemingly endless supply of funds, lives in a mansion, drives a nice car, and wears sophisticated clothing, where Jacob lives in a small house, drives an old car, and wears tattered clothes. Wilson uses this collected information to bring to light the undercurrent of white privilege that is displayed throughout the Twilight series. It is also important to note, that in the story, Bella Swan a white teenage girl, is caught in a love triangle between Jacob and Edward.
Are they bad books or bad writers, procrastinated or not well thought about, and most importantly will one want to finish read the book for any of those reasons? These are all questions that could be thought as one is reading a new book. Tara Dugan of the Millions Online Magazine stated:
Ever since pen was first put to paper there has been some form of censorship surrounding it. The most current form of censorship is to ban the books which are viewed as inappropriate. Such an act not only violates the rights of American citizens, but it also violates the rights of the students to learn. Even if the government could manage to ban all of the books that it feels are inappropriate, the thirst to read such books would only grow. Too often is it forgotten that before the banning of books was an “at home issue,” (Book Banning 1) the federal government tried to cut the flow of inappropriate information off at the source
Why can’t adults read YA books? Why are adults getting judge because, of the books they choose to read? Ruth Graham stated in her slate article “Against YA” that “Adults who read YA books should feel embarrassed.”(Graham) Ruth Graham gives some good information on why they shouldn’t but she lacked a lot of support behind her opinions. The type of book genres you read does not define you as an adult or teenager. Adults should be able to read whatever type of genre they feel the need to.
Every year in the United States we have books being banned and challenged by many people who do not like the contents of books. When researching for this argument essay I found an article written by Rebecca Hagelin. Rebecca Hagelin is the author of Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That’s Gone Stark Raving Mad and the vice president of communications and marketing at the Heritage Foundation (Lankford).
Finn. ?Huckleberry Finn is not only one of the best books ever written in this country but
Blasingame, James, Kathleen Deakin, and Laura Walsh. Stephenie Meyer: In the Twilight. Lanham: Scarecrow Press, 2012. Print.
What is the difference between challenging and banning a book? To challenge a book is part of the process to ban the book which means to remove the materials. But why do people banned and challenged books? People, and or groups, have good intentions when they challenge a book. They are doing it to protect children of harsh information and difficult ideas, but shouldn’t everyone have the right to read whatever they please? In my opinion, they should! By examining sexuality explicit, offensive langauge, and unsuited for certain ages it is clear that some books have been banned, or challenged.
In the famous novel and movie series, Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, an average teenage girl, Bella Swan, is forced to move from Arizona (where she lived with her mother) to Washington to start an almost new life with her father. She attends a small-town high school with mostly average people, besides one family, the Cullens. As Bella and Edward Cullen get closer, she uncovers a deep secret about him and his family. Their relationship faces many hard challenges and conflicts as the story develops. Both the novel and movie share very similar storylines, however, differ in many ways. From themes to author’s craft, or to relationships, these important parts of the story highlight the significant differences and similarities of Twilight.
(Goldberg, par. 3). Every year on the last week of September there is the National Banned Books Week. It is an exciting time where there are special readings of banned books. It is also the times where the newspaper prints off the threats from the American Library Association to have the freedom to read. Last year on Banned Books week the ALA’s official magazine, American Libraries, ran a story headlined, “Book banning alive and well in the U.S.” What do books from the Twilight series, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Hunger Games have in common? They all have faced removal from library bookshelves in the United States within the past year. It is understandable why the Twilight series have been banned, because of the romance and make believe characters. Some parents caution their children who might read them and get their heads glued to the possibility of having a romance like that in the future. The reason of To Kill a Mockingbird being banned is racism and violence. It is a simply written book that many Junior High students can read, but only in high school are they able to read it. The popular Hunger Games series was banned form the graphic violence and it gave some kids nightmares. ( Piesyk, Par. 1) Some parent believes that violent books are the cause of all the violence that is happening in the world at this moment. With the parents complaining about the books that are available to the students, their words are what bring t...
From the beginning of modern civilization, books have been an important and revolutionary source of human knowledge. Unfortunately, it has become a growing trend to censor books for a variety of reasons. Several of these reasons, which include protecting children and omitting offensive material, are not only arbitrary but are without merit. This is because sheltering children is not beneficial to the children, and also it is impossible to shelter kids without resorting to isolation. Also, it’s not possible to screen out offensive material in books because all material is potentially offensive. The escalating trend of censoring information in books is not only an impossible task, but it contributes to the declination in the population’s intelligence.
This fetish has been manifested in the movies I view, the television shows I watch, and the books I read. When my obsession with reading is crossed with my obsession with monsters, the result is a bookshelf containing more vampire novels than most people would consider healthy. I have discovered that every vampire novel varies vastly; no two books are ever alike. For example, the Twilight Series, the Anita Blake Series and the Vampire Chronicles Series have different legends and lore, different relationships between vampires and society, and different genres, theme, and purpose; this array of novels displays most clearly the range of audience the vampire genre can cater. The Twilight series is a bestselling series written by Stephanie Meyer that has captivated millions of teenage girls.
That is why I am not surprised that I would also enjoy the book series she was reading at the time. We were at my aunt’s beach house for a little over week and she would not put down or stop talking about this book. I knew my older cousin enjoyed reading here and there but I never saw her so into the story before. She was reading the true blood series, which is about vampires, I know very typical that a vampire series is what got me hooked on enjoying reading. My cousin kept hounding me to just read it since she had the first book of the series with her anyway, she stated I might as well just give it a try and it would give me something else to do at the beach. Towards the end of the week I gave in; however, I made a deal with her that I would at least read half the book and if I did not like it she had to stop talking about it. As much as I wanted to hate the book and prove her wrong I could not put that book