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Twilight: a literary atrocityByJames Garner,[object Object]
Why?,[object Object],[object Object]
 Weak Plot Structure
 Distortion of Classical Literary Vampire,[object Object]
Poor Writing,[object Object],Inconsistencies,[object Object],“And then his cold, marble lips pressed very softly against mine.”(T),[object Object],“I snuggled into his stone chest.”(NM),[object Object],“...when Charlie was up I made him pancakes.”(BD),[object Object],A few sentences later we see:,[object Object],“He scowled into his cereal bowl...”,[object Object]
Redundancy,[object Object],The amount of times Edward is called “beautiful” or some similar adjective.,[object Object],(All taken from Twilight),[object Object],“I glanced sideways at the beautiful boy, who was looking at his tray now, picking a bagel to pieces with long, pale fingers. His mouth was moving very quickly, his perfect lips barely opening.”,[object Object],“I looked up to see him smiling a crooked smile so beautiful that I could only stare at him like an idiot.”,[object Object],“Interesting… and brilliant… and mysterious… and perfect… and beautiful…and possibly able to lift full-sized vans with one hand.”,[object Object],“It was hard to believe that someone so beautiful could be real.”,[object Object],“He was smiling, relaxed - and, as usual, perfect and beautiful to an excruciating degree.”,[object Object],“Hesitantly, always afraid, even now, that he would disappear like a mirage, too beautiful to be real… hesitantly, I reached out one finger and stroked the back of his shimmering hand, where it lay within my reach.”,[object Object]
Redundancy,[object Object],“...his voice was harsher than usual. Harsh for him, still more beautiful than any human voice.” (Notice also, the reuse of the word“harsh”),[object Object],“His mouth twitched up into that crooked smile so beautiful my heart nearly stopped.”,[object Object],“The beautiful one, the godlike one…”,[object Object],“There was agony in his beautiful voice again.”,[object Object],“His voice was beautiful, like a lullaby.”,[object Object],"Usually." He smiled widely, flashing a set of perfect, ultrawhite teeth.” (Note: “ultrawhite” is not a word),[object Object],“I didn't want to feel what I knew I would feel when I looked at his too-perfect face.”,[object Object],“Again, the fabric clung to his perfectly muscled chest.”,[object Object],“His white shirt was sleeveless, and he wore it unbuttoned, so that the smooth white skin of his throat flowed uninterrupted over the marble contours of his chest, his perfect musculature no longer merely hinted at behind concealing clothes.”,[object Object]
Weak Plot Structure,[object Object],Breaking Dawn, final book in series has no climax,[object Object],Entire book is focused on the Rising Action,[object Object],Climax is never reached, is instead thrown away,[object Object]
Character Development,[object Object],Protagonist, Bella, never changes.,[object Object],From the beginning is very shallow,[object Object],No real direction in life, is moving away from home for no identifiable purpose,[object Object],Most of the series revolves around how beautiful Edward is,[object Object],Edward is given a chance to develop, yet nothing comes of it,[object Object],Edward believes being a vampire has damned his soul, a potential point for character development,[object Object]
Distortion of Classical Literary Vampire“Dracula vs. Edward”,[object Object]
A comparison,[object Object],Edward's Strengths,[object Object],Unknown strength limitations,[object Object],Potentially immortal,[object Object],Does not require sleep,[object Object],Can play piano very well,[object Object],Can read minds,[object Object],Unexplained in books,[object Object],Dracula's Strengths,[object Object],Strength of 20 men,[object Object],Potentially immortal,[object Object],Can shape shift into the form of a wolf or a bat,[object Object],Can appear as elemental dust or mist,[object Object],Has hypnotic power over victims,[object Object]
A comparison,[object Object],Edward's Weaknesses,[object Object],~* Sparkles *~ in sunlight,[object Object],Subject to fits of teenage angst,[object Object],Dracula's Weaknesses,[object Object],May not enter a household unless invited in,[object Object],Can only sleep on soil of native land,[object Object],Loses powers during daylight hours,[object Object],Repelled by garlic or holy symbols,[object Object]
Distortion,[object Object],Stephanie Meyer has distorted the classic vampire into an almost indestructible force,[object Object],Vampires in the Twilight series have almost no weaknesses, creating a simple, shallow, and almost all-powerful character,[object Object],No room for character to grow,[object Object]
Why the hype?,[object Object]
~* Edward *~,[object Object],The main reason that so many people are attracted to the book is the character named Edward,[object Object],Edward is, according to most girls, the personification of the “perfect” guy,[object Object],Edward listens,[object Object],Edward is polite,[object Object],Edward is protective,[object Object],Edward sparkles,[object Object],Most importantly: Edward is HOT!,[object Object]
The Downside,[object Object],Edward is “perfect”,[object Object],In reality, no one is.,[object Object],Good luck, girls.,[object Object],Fun fact: Robert Pattinson has been asked by a pre-teen fan to bite her.,[object Object],What about the impression these movies and books are having on children?,[object Object]

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