I think with as many Twilight fans as we have on this board we deserve a second thread for more in detailed discussions of how the series and Meyer's writing reflects issues and the world, whether skewed or on target.
Since Breaking Dawn has received the greatest amount of dissension from critics and fans alike, now is a good as time as any to bring out your concerns about themes in the book.
Okay, here's a list of some topics in no order:
Since Breaking Dawn has received the greatest amount of dissension from critics and fans alike, now is a good as time as any to bring out your concerns about themes in the book.
Okay, here's a list of some topics in no order:
- Getting married and having a baby makes you an adult.
- Having a baby is easy. Everyone else will take care of it and it will be grown up before you know it.
- Getting married means you can't have the same relationship with your parents and belong to your husband's family. (She couldn't have contact with her parents and she physically took on the same attributes as the Cullens.)
- A happy ending can only be attained if you have a baby. (SMeyer says this is the only way she ever saw the Bella/Edward story ending).
- Women who cannot have children should be pitied rather than sympathized with. That being barren makes women bitchy and we should forgive them for their actions since they have been dealt such a cruel hand in life.
- Finding your OTL means losing everything else you ever cared about. (Jacob's POV on seeing Nessie)
- Our mortal lives are dark, faded, cloudy, and not important.
- If we love someone who is in a serious relationship, then that means our OTP is with their baby (or other blood relative).
- No such thing as just love based upon friendship. (Everyone has their own one true love).
- Men with scars are ugly, scary, and unloveable. (Booooo, hisssss). Okay real topic is, "Are looks so important to falling in love with a person?"
- It's okay to give your baby horrible psyche scarring names as long as it pays honor to family members. (Bella herself hated her full name but would not let her daughter have one?)
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