Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs Summary

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Sady Doyle wrote an article, November 19,2009, about twilight titled, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: the unwarranted backlash against fans of the world's most popular vampire-romance series.” The purpose of this work is to inform the reader on the unwarranted backlash on fans of the twilight series. Doyle go all over the place when it comes to her topics. She begins to talk about the weaknesses, next she goes on to the sales of the twilight series, then she goes to the fans of twilight, and lastly about teen girls controlling the market. Nothing is organized to where you can get a concept of what Doyle is trying to convey. This essay is unclear, misleading, and lacks to inform the reader on what is being talked about. The drawbacks of the twilight series are the play of “retrograde gender roles, the plodding plotlines, and the super-heated goofiness of Meyer’s prose” (Doyle 281). The series is portrayed for the teenage girl who has an ideal of love, including when handsome actors are involved. Twilight had massive sales when it was first released as a book and even more when the movie came out. Every popular series has a fandom, including twilight. The “Twi-hards” (281) have a reputation of being known as nothing but “squealing teenage female fans” (282) and who are disliked by other fandoms because …show more content…
“J.K. Rowling’s monumental, spellbinding epic, 10 years in the making, is deeply rooted in traditional literature,” reads her review of the final Potter novel, published in 2007.” This input from Doyle is non sequitur, it only hurts and misleads the direction of the essay. It hurts the essay by adding on information that irrelevant to her main topic. And it misleads the reader by talking about another book series. There is really no reason to add on extra information about something that will not benefit the

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