Fred Meyer

In his 1897 gothic novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker defined the modern form of the vampire. His character, Dracula remained popular through the ages, being one of the most popular adaptation source in history. Dracula has created an extraordinary vampire subculture, and an enormous amount of films have been made that feature Count Dracula as it’s main antagonist, or protagonist. However, most adaptations do not include the major characters from the novel, focusing only on the now traditional…

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla Laura, the narrator in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, fits into the appearance of a typical female victim in vampire literature. Long before she meets the titular character, she had a dream or rather a nightmare about a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Carmilla, who sang her fangs into the maiden’s body. Despite the fear, she helps the woman after the accident and invites her in. Laura easily and without much thought happens to trust…

The title of my book is Breaking Dawn, the fourth book in the Twilight series. Breaking Dawn is a work of pure fiction, written by Stephenie Meyer. Most of the story takes place in Forks, Washington, Bella and Edward’s new cottage in the woods, and Isle Esme, which is Bella and Edward’s honeymoon spot. The story doesn’t give a specific time date, but it most likely takes place during present time. Bella Swan is 18 years old in this book of the series and was 18 years old when she was turned and…

Twilight directed by Hadwicke is a movie about a girl named Bella who meets a vampire named Edward. She is thrown into a new environment and begins new discoveries. Her life would never be the same after she falls in love with a vampire. A simple movie with a simple concept. The underlying theme to movie is we should not live simple lives and we should reach for something more, something above normal. Showing maybe living forever and becoming a vampire isn’t what anyone really wants. In the…

“One for the road” By Stephen King, Gerard Lumely is a example of the impulsive one stereotype because of his lack of thinking. He doesn’t think before he does something. In fact that’s what had gotten him killed in the first place. Lumely is a really careless character in this story. The story “One for the road” is about this guy (Gerard Lumely) has gotten stuck in a snowstorm in maine.Gerard comes to a bar, and asks for help to come find his missing wife and…

willing to do whatever it takes to protect the ones she loves. I was a sophomore in high school when I was first introduced to the novels by Stephenie Meyer, the films had not been released yet. A friend saw me reading a Fear Street book by R.L. Stine, one of my favorite authors since middle school. She recommended I read Twilight by Stephenie Meyer and was raving about it saying I was going to love it. Later, that day after school I was curious to why she so into the book and decided to walk to…

In today’s modern society women’s literature seems to be fascinated with the romance of abnormal couples. As we all know the popular book series of Twilight sparked the world’s fascination of vampires and the romance of a mortal teenage woman and a forever young teenage vampire. Throughout the books it follows the semi-love triangle of three teens Bella, Edward, Jacob and forbidden love. For three out of the four books it is written through the thoughts and emotions of Bella point of view and…

Ever wonder if you have something in common with a person from a book? Well I have, and I figured out I have the same characteristics as Tim Tebow. Even though we have some differences, we have a lot in common. We are seventy-three percent in common. Tim Tebow and I have several similar qualities, I have only chosen three aspects. Tim Tebow and I are athletic, christian, and intelligent. To start, Mr. Tebow and I are both extremely athletic. Tim played football, basketball, and baseball…

Marissa Meyer Marissa meyer is an up and coming author that published her first book "Cinder" in 2012, which kicked off her aspiring Lunar series. Four years later she finished the 5th and final book in the Lunar series. This series was a hit and gained her her mass amounts of notoriety as a newbie in the novelist community. Marisa's writing style in the lunar series is very unique, being a sci-fi based fairy tale stories. The themes in her Lunar series also follow an underdog trend, where…

evoking, blood thirsty, irresistible terrifying creatures. Creatures that have lost all connection to their humanity, set free from mortal flesh and gifted with eternal youth and primal lust. Christine Seifert tells us “Twilights” author Stephanie Meyers has created this erotic desire surrounding abstinence. We follow a short summarization of Bella and Edwards love story without a sex life. This dark romantic novel consists of Edwards stalker like infatuation with Bella, the struggle both…