Stephenie Meyer

series, because it describes their everyday life in some cases. Since it’s easily relatable, any female can slip into her role and easily fantasize about being this person (How Twilight Works). The allusion that the writer of The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer, is trying to portray throughout the series is that of the classic Romeo and Juliet. According to Francisca Ortega on her opinionated blog on how Twilight is merely a dysfunctional love story, “Killing yourself for the one you love is just…

Purpose and questions. This essay has 2 main goals. The first goal that will be concentrated on now is to find the similarities and differences between the two vampire characters Edward Cullen and Count Dracula and how they are portrayed in terms of aspects of behavior, actions, life and appearance. The aim is the following questions: How is Edward Cullen portrayed in contrast to Count Dracula? Which differences and similarities are there between the two vampire characters? The second goal that…

Over the years, there have been many controversial books that have been banned or nearly banned. These books include Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, Phillip Pullman’s The Golden Compass, Roald Dahl’s James and the Giant Peach, and many others, as stated in Britney Wilkins’ article, “50 Banned Books That Everyone Should Read.” However, in the last twenty years, three book series, particularly geared…

I am reading City of Bones an action and adventure novel by Cassandra Clare. There are 496 pages in this book. Stephenie Meyer author of “Twilight” said “The Mortal Instrument series is a story world I would love to live in.” I believe that this book is for advanced readers and young adult ages because there are adult situations and some language that may be inappropriate for younger readers. The protagonists are Jace and Clary. Jace is very Strong and sometimes can be sarcastic and stubborn…

end of the chapter, he believes vampires will exist until exploitation stops. Vampirism is extremely present today and will continue to be as it is a timeless motif. One novel that features vampirism, as mentioned in the chapter, is Twilight. Stephenie Meyer uses a mixture of literal and symbolic vampirism throughout her novel. Her story is centered around a high school girl, Bella Swan, who moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father. Within a few days at school,…

Romeo’s Hamartia Often in works of literature, a character’s flaw can cause his or her downfall. Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a one of most recognised tragedies ever written. Romeo and Juliet is a play about two star-crossed lovers. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet are young members of rivaling families who fall in love at first sight. The two carry out their love in secret, and are infatuated with themselves. The hatred of the two families arises again and ends with the…

Stephenie Meyer, author of The Twilight Series, once said “the right thing isn't always real obvious. Sometimes the right thing for one person is the wrong thing for someone else.” The play Medea, written by Euripides, is about a heartbroken woman who decides the best way to make her ex-husband feel the pain he caused inside her, is to kill his newlywed wife, his new father-in-law, and the children they both raised. In the play Medea, the author uses Medea’s twisted sense of justice to…

A male becomes a young females’ “everything” whom she would “die for.” Romeo and Juliet heavily influences today’s young adult fiction, and novels such as Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, perpetuate the ideal of being willing to die for a romantic partner as a standard for true love. Twilight’s Bella literally gives her human life to be with her romantic love interest, Edward. One must question why literature would perpetuate…

problem but many have also taken advantage of these recent events and have written extremely popular dystopian/utopian novels. These include The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Matched by Allie Condie, Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Host by Stephenie Meyer and many more. The topic-book of this essay is also a utopian novel that is by the award winning author, Lois Lowry. Lois has written many novels including Number The Stars, Gathering Blue, Son, Anastasia Krupnik, and A Summer To Die. This…

To continue, many people are excluded just because of their financial situation. Such as, areas of high-poverty have people that are less likely to attend quality schools, live in good houses, have good healthcare, and have cheap consumer credit, and find other ways out of poverty. This is not fair because even if the people are in a tight situation, they do not need to be treated badly. Another example is that investigations have shown that Americans blame poverty on poor people and are…