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With 160 million copies of the Twilight Saga sold worldwide, this addictive love story between a teenage girl and a vampire redefined romance for a generation. Here is the series finale.
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or to pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hangs.
This astonishing, breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Twilight Saga illuminates the secrets and mysteries of this spellbinding romantic epic.
'People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there.'-Time
'A literary phenomenon.'-The New York Times
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fans of Meyer's debut novel, Twilight, may be disappointed in this second book in a planned trilogy. It begins with a bang, on Bella's 18th birthday, when Edward Cullen sweeps her off to his unorthodox family home (in the first book readers learn that the Cullens are vampires who hunt animals rather than humans) for a birthday celebration. But when Bella unwraps a gift and gets a paper cut, her drops of blood set off a chaos that culminates in the Cullens leaving town. Edward exits on page 73, and does not reappear for nearly 400 pages, except for his voice in Bella's head when she embarks on dangerous adventures, such as motorcycle riding and cliff diving. Instead, this book focuses on Jake, her friend from La Push, who has some unusual traits of his own. A Quileute legend that he confides in Bella in the first book comes to the fore here (and ties in with the title), and Bella is tracked down by the 'bad' vampires from the first book, who seek revenge for Edward's murder of their friend James. Long stretches in the book may make readers feel as if they're treading water, but the pace quickens when Alice Cullen sees a vision of Bella cliff diving and mistakes it for suicide. Edward then heads to the all-powerful Volturi vampires in Italy, seeking his own death. Will Bella get to Italy in time to save Edward? Will she remain human? Meyer answers the first question but leaves the second for the third novel. Ages 12-up.
Get real
It's funny to me when I read and hear of people really disliking the twilight series. Take it as it is: a love story which happens to include werewolves and vampires. Stop overanalyzing everything and let yourself enjoy the story. I loved the transformation that the Bella character went through since the first book. And as a mother, I can say breaking dawn was my favorite one. Break away from your preconceived notions of what a story including vampires etc. should be about and just enjoy the book.
Good book but NOT for kids
Although I loved the series this book is most def not for children. The beginning of the book is filled with sexual content that is not appropriate for kids to be reading. This book does however keep you on yours toes and wanting more. I hope Stephanie writes more books since I have read all of her books thus far.
Breaking Dawn
The best book in the series, it kept me guessing and it had my heart racing with anticipation. I hope Stephenie has another dream that cause her to write a series as wonderful as all of the Twilight saga.
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See AllWhen 17 year old Isabella Swan moves to Forks, Washington to live with her father she expects that her new life will be as dull as the town.But in spite of her awkward manner and low expectations, she finds that her new classmates are drawn to this pale, dark-haired new girl in town. But not, it seems, the Cullen family. These five adopted brothers and sisters obviously prefer their own company and will make no exception for Bella.
Bella is convinced that Edward Cullen in particular hates her, but she feels a strange attraction to him, although his hostility makes her feel almost physically ill. He seems determined to push her away - until, that is, he saves her life from an out of control car.
Bella will soon discover that there is a very good reason for Edward's coldness. He, and his family, are vampires - and he knows how dangerous it is for others to get too close.
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Born | Stephenie Morgan December 24, 1973 (age 45) Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
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Occupation | Novelist, producer |
Alma mater | Brigham Young University(BA) |
Genre | Vampire romance, young adult fiction, science fiction |
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Spouse | Christian Meyer (m. 1994) |
Children | 3 |
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Stephenie Meyer (née Morgan; /ˈmaɪ.ər/; born December 24, 1973) is an American novelist and film producer, best known for her vampire romance series Twilight.[1][2][3] The Twilight novels have sold over 100 million copies,[1][4] with translations into 37 different languages.[2][3] Meyer was the bestselling author of 2008 and 2009 in the US, having sold over 29 million books in 2008,[5][6] and 26.5 million in 2009.[7]Twilight was the best-selling book of 2008 in the US.[8]
Meyer was ranked No. 49 on Time magazine's list of the '100 Most Influential People in 2008',[9] and was included in the Forbes Celebrity 100 list of the world's most powerful celebrities in 2009, entering at No. 26. Her annual earnings exceeded $50 million.[10] In 2010, Forbes ranked her as the No. 59 most powerful celebrity with annual earnings of $40 million.[11]
- 2The Twilight series
- 3The Host
- 4Analysis
- 8Bibliography
Early life[edit]
Stephenie Meyer was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the second of six children to Stephen and Candy Morgan.[12] She was raised in Phoenix, Arizona, with her siblings: Seth, Emily, Jacob, Paul, and Heidi. Meyer attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona, where her former English teacher remembered her as 'bright but not overly so.'[13] She attended Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, where she received a BA in English in 1997.[14] Meyer met her husband, Christian, when she was four years old in Arizona, and they married in 1994, both aged 20. Together they have three sons. Christian Meyer, formerly an auditor, retired to take care of the children.[15]
Meyer is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; she has stated that she is strait-laced about her beliefs and does not drink alcohol or smoke.[16] Meyer had no experience as a writer of any kind and had never even written a short story before Twilight. She had considered going to law school because she felt she had no chance of becoming a writer; she later noted that the birth of her oldest son Gabe changed her mind, saying, 'Once I had Gabe, I just wanted to be his mom.'[16] Before becoming an author, Meyer's only professional work was as a receptionist in a property company.[15]
The Twilight series[edit]
Twilight[edit]
Meyer says that the idea for Twilight came to her in a dream on June 2, 2003.[17] The dream was about a human girl and a vampire who was in love with her but thirsted for her blood.[17] Based on this dream, Meyer wrote the draft of what became Chapter 13 of the book.[18] In a matter of three months she had transformed her dream into a complete novel,[19] though she never intended to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment.[20] Her sister's response to the book was enthusiastic and she persuaded Meyer to send the manuscript to literary agencies.[15]
Of the 15 letters she wrote, five went unanswered, nine brought rejections, and the last was a positive response from Jodi Reamer of Writers House.[21] Eight publishers competed for the rights to publish Twilight in a 2003 auction.[21] By November, Meyer had signed a $750,000 three-book deal with Little, Brown and Company.[22]Twilight was published in 2005 with a print run of 75,000 copies.[21] It reached No. 5 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books within a month of its release,[23] and later rose to #1.[24] Foreign rights to the novel were sold to over 26 countries.[25] The novel was named the Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Times Editor's Choice.[26]
Subsequent novels[edit]
Following the success of Twilight (2005), Meyer expanded the story into a series with three more books: New Moon (2006), Eclipse (2007), and Breaking Dawn (2008). In its first week after publication, New Moon reached No. 5 on The New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Chapter Books, and in its second week rose to the No. 1 position, where it remained for the next 11 weeks. In total, it spent over 50 weeks on the list.[27] After the release of Eclipse, the first three 'Twilight' books spent a combined 143 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list.[19] The fourth installment of the Twilight series, Breaking Dawn, was released with an initial print run of 3.7 million copies.[28] Over 1.3 million copies were sold on the first day.[29] The novel won Meyer her first British Book Award, despite competition from J. K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard.[30] The series has sold over 100 million copies worldwide[4] in 37 languages.[31] In 2008, the four books of the series claimed the top four spots on USA Today's year-end bestseller list, making Meyer the first author to ever achieve this feat, as well as being the bestselling author of the year.[5] The Twilight novels held the top four spots on USA Today's year-end list again in 2009.[32]
In August 2009, USA Today revealed that Meyer broke J. K. Rowling's record on their bestseller list; the four Twilight books had spent 52 straight weeks in the top 10.[33] The books have spent more than 143 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list. Upon the completion of the fourth entry in the series, Meyer indicated that Breaking Dawn would be the final novel to be told from Bella Swan's perspective.[34]Midnight Sun was to be a companion novel to the series. It would be a retelling of the events of the novel Twilight, but from the perspective of Edward Cullen.[35] Meyer had hoped to have Midnight Sun published some time shortly after the release of Breaking Dawn, but after an online leak of a rough draft of its first 12 chapters, Meyer chose to delay the project indefinitely.[36] Meyer has decided to pursue non-Twilight-related books as a result of the leak. She made the rough chapters of Midnight Sun available on her website.[35] In 2015, she published a new book in honor of the 10th anniversary of the best-selling franchise, titled Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, with the genders of the original protagonists switched.[37]
Inspiration[edit]
Meyer cites many novels as inspiration for the Twilight series, including Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë and L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and its sequels.[38] Each book in the series was also inspired specifically by a different literary classic: Twilight by Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice; New Moon by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet; Eclipse by Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights; and Breaking Dawn's theme by Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice[39] and A Midsummer Night's Dream.[40] Meyer said, 'I've been reading books for adults my entire life. Growing up I was an avid reader—the thicker the book, the better.'[41] She also said she is a huge fan of Orson Scott Card, and 'can't go through a year without re-reading' Jane Austen's books.[41]
She also says that her writing is strongly influenced by music, and she posts playlists on her website of songs which specifically inspired her books. Bands included most often in her playlists are Muse, Blue October, My Chemical Romance, Coldplay and Linkin Park.[42][43][44][45] Other influences that she has cited on the Twilight Saga include the X-Men cartoon, HGTV, and the films Iron Man, Somewhere in Time, Stranger than Fiction, and Baby Mama.[38] As a Mormon, Meyer acknowledges that her faith has influenced her work. In particular, she says that her characters 'tend to think more about where they came from, and where they are going, than might be typical.'[46] Meyer says that she does not consciously intend her novels to be Mormon-influenced, or to promote the virtues of sexual abstinence and spiritual purity, but admits that her writing is shaped by her values, saying,
I don't think my books are going to be really graphic or dark, because of who I am. There's always going to be a lot of light in my stories.[47]
Film adaptations[edit]
Summit Entertainment optioned Twilight in April 2007. Catherine Hardwicke directed the film and the screenplay was written by Melissa Rosenberg.[48] It stars Kristen Stewart as Bella Swan, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen and Taylor Lautner as Jacob Black.[49] The movie was released on November 21, 2008.[50] Meyer makes a brief cameo appearance in a diner scene.[51] Following the success of Twilight, Summit greenlit a film adaptation of the sequel, The Twilight Saga: New Moon, in November 2008.[52]Chris Weitz directed the film,[53] which was released on November 20, 2009.[54] Summit confirmed an adaptation of the third book in the series, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, in February 2009.[55]David Slade directed the film, which was released on June 30, 2010. Summit also obtained the rights to Breaking Dawn in November 2008,[56] and approved a two-part adaptation in June 2010 that started production in late 2010.[57] The first part was released on November 18, 2011, and the second part on November 16, 2012.[58]
The Host[edit]
In May 2008, Meyer's adult sci-fi novel Driver backup restore software free download. The Host, was released by the adult division of Little, Brown and Company. It follows the story of Melanie Stryder and Wanderer, a young woman and an invading alien 'soul', who are forced to work as one. The Host debuted at No. 1 on The New York Times Best Seller list[59] and remained on the list for 26 weeks.[60] Meyer has said that she is working on additional books in The Host series and that she intends to write a trilogy, with the second and third books being called The Soul and The Seeker, respectively.[61] In February 2011, Meyer stated that she had outlines for the sequels and had done some writing on them.[62]
As of December 2018, there have been no further developments, other than fan speculation, regarding a follow-up novel to The Host.
Film adaptation[edit]
The novel has been adapted into a film with Andrew Niccol directing and Saoirse Ronan starring as Melanie Stryder, Max Irons as Jared Howe and Jake Abel as Ian O'Shea.[63][64] The film was released on March 29, 2013, to generally negative reviews.[65][66]
Analysis[edit]
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Reception[edit]
Entertainment Weekly has stated that Meyer is 'the world's most popular vampire novelist since Anne Rice',[67] while The Guardian described her as an 'imaginative storyteller, a prolific author and a newly powerful figure in the publishing market.'[68] Wayne Janes of Toronto Sun agreed, saying 'Meyer's success points up another trend—the virtual domination of the best-seller lists the last few years by what would normally be classified as young adult fiction,' and noted,
In the absence of a new Harry Potter adventure, teens, fantasy enthusiasts and women (sales are mostly to females) who swoon at the idea of a virginal James Dean-ish vampire made Meyer the go-to gal for chaste love.'[69] Tymon Smith of The Times has described her as the 'superstar of young adult fiction'.[70]
Meyer was named USA Today's 'Author of the Year' in 2008,[71] and one of MSN Lifestyle's 'Most Influential Women of 2008' where she was described as a 'literary luminary'.[72] She was also ranked No. 49 on Time magazine's list of the '100 Most Influential People in 2008',[9] and was included in their list of 'People Who Mattered', with Lev Grossman noting, 'Maybe Americans aren't ready for a Mormon presidential nominee yet. But they're more than ready to anoint a Mormon as the best-selling novelist of the year.'[73] Meyer was included in The Arizona Republic's 'Valley's Most Fascinating People' in December 2008.[74]
She was ranked No. 82 on Vanity Fair's list of the 'Top 100 Information Age Powers' of 2009.[75] Meyer was featured in an issue of the biographical comic Female Force, a Bluewater Productions title which celebrates influential women in society and pop culture.[76] The comic has previously published biographies of women such as Oprah Winfrey and Princess Diana.[54] In 2011 CEOWorld Magazine ranked her among CEOWorld Magazine's Top Accomplished Women Entertainers.[77] Meyer was the second bestselling author of the decade, according to a list published by Amazon, beaten by J. K. Rowling.[78]
Fan following[edit]
Meyer has gained a following among young adult readers of her Twilight novels, which are set in the small town of Forks on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington state. Forks has thus received attention from fans, and celebrates 'Stephenie Meyer Day' on September 13, the date of character Bella Swan's birthday.[79] Fans express themselves in other ways: '[They] dress up like her characters. They write their own stories about them and post their tales on the Internet. When she appears at a bookstore, 3,000 people go to meet her. There are Twilight-themed rock bands.'[80]
Reception by other authors[edit]
Novelist Orson Scott Card said, '[Stephenie Meyer] writes with luminous clarity, never standing between the reader and the dream they share. She's the real thing'.[81] Scott described Meyer as an 'amazing phenomenon'.[82] In an interview with Newsweek, author Jodi Picoult said, 'Stephenie Meyer has gotten people hooked on books, and that's good for all of us.'[83] Meyer was ranked No. 5 on Forbes' list of 'Hollywood's Top-Earning Women', the only author on the list, and it was noted that the 'Twilight series of young-adult vampire books have taken the publishing and film worlds by storm.'[84]
Comparing Meyer to J. K. Rowling, Stephen King stated: 'The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer, and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good'.[85][86] King went on to say that:
People are attracted by the stories, by the pace and, in the case of Stephenie Meyer, it's very clear that she's writing to a whole generation of girls and opening up kind of a safe joining of love and sex in those books. It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening because it's not overtly sexual.
He further explains:
A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like, the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand for all the feelings that they're not ready to deal with yet.[86]
Meyer has been criticized by feminists who consider Meyer an antifeminist writer, saying that the series romanticizes a physically abusive relationship, pointing to red flags that include Bella's entire life revolving around Edward; never being in control of her own life; being absolutely dependent on Edward's ability to protect her life, her virginity, and her humanity; and the physical injuries Bella suffers from finally consummating her relationship with Edward.[87][88][89] Meyer has dismissed such criticisms, saying both that the books center around Bella's choice, and that her damsel in distress persona is due only to her humanity.[90]
Personal life[edit]
Meyer married Christian Meyer in 1994. They have three sons together: Gabe, Seth and Eli. The family lives in Cave Creek, Arizona,[91] and also own a home on Marrowstone Island, Washington.[92]
Film producer[edit]
In 2011, Meyer started her own production company, Fickle Fish Films, with producer Meghan Hibbett. Meyer spent much of 2011 producing both parts of Breaking Dawn[93] as well as the film adaptation of Shannon Hale's novel Austenland.[94]
In February 2012, Meyer announced on her website that filming for The Host, for which she is a producer, would begin the next day.[95]
In April 2012, Meyer announced that she would be producing a film adaptation of Lois Duncan's Down a Dark Hall.[96]
Other works[edit]
One of Meyer's short stories was published in Prom Nights from Hell, a collection of stories about bad prom nights with supernatural effects. Meyer's story 'Hell on Earth', was about a demon named Sheba and a half-angel named Gabe who fall in love with each other. Other authors who contributed to the collection are Meg Cabot, Kim Harrison, Michele Jaffe and Lauren Myracle. Prom Nights from Hell was released in April 2007.
Meyer mentions having several other book ideas on file, including a ghost story titled Summer House and a novel involving time travel,[97] as well as another about mermaids.[98][99] On August 28, 2008, it was announced that Meyer had written the treatment for Jack's Mannequin music video 'The Resolution', which she co-directed the following week.[100][101]
In 2009, Meyer teamed with the skateboard and clothing company Hobo Skate Company to produce her own clothing line, consisting of a line of T-shirts and skateboards related to her science-fiction novel The Host.[102] On March 30, 2010, it was announced that Meyer had written a 200-page novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. The book was released on June 5, 2010, by Atom and was available for free between June 7 and July 5 on the official website.[103][104]
In April 2009, Meyer took part in Project Book Babe, a benefit designed to help pay her friend Faith Hochhalter's medical bills after Hochhalter was diagnosed with breast cancer. Meyer donated many advance reader copies and original manuscripts for auction.[105][106] The same year, Meyer teamed up with Hobo Skate Company to auction off a The Host-themed skateboard, which sold for $1500 that was donated to charity.[102]
In December 2015 it was announced that Meyer was producing a TV series based on Daniel O'Malley's book, The Rook. The show will be shown on Hulu and a yet to be announced UK channel.[107]
In July 2016, it was announced that she had written an adult action thriller titled The Chemist, about 'an ex-agent on the run from her former employers'. The book was released on November 8, 2016.[108]
Bibliography[edit]
Twilight series[edit]
- Twilight (2005)
- New Moon (2006)
- Eclipse (2007)
- Breaking Dawn (2008)
- The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner (2010)
- The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide (2011)
- Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined (2015)
Other books[edit]
- The Host (2008)
- The Chemist (2016)
Short stories[edit]
- 'Hell on Earth', published in Prom Nights from Hell (2009)
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It’s been 10 years since the last film based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series was released. HT looks back at the saga that changed the vampire from a figure of horror to a teen romantic hero
hollywoodUpdated: Dec 08, 2018 19:48 ISTIt landed in my mailbox one morning in 2008. The subject line was ‘mush’ and inside, along with the link to an e-book, was a one-line directive from a friend – ‘read it’. I ignored it. After all, my distaste for mush was well known. But she was oddly insistent. And so it was that on a rainy, overcast day in Kolkata, which could compete with an average day in the US town of Forks – where Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga is set – in terms of the weather that I started reading the first of the series of four books that turned Meyer from a stay-at-home mom of three to a bestselling author. The irony of the downpour in my city, as the novel’s young protagonist, Bella, says goodbye to sunny Phoenix and prepares to move in with her Dad in rainy Forks, was not lost on me. But as yet, I failed to see why my friend had so badly wanted me to read Twilight. It wasn’t something that I would understand till several chapters later, Bella realises that Edward, the boy who had occupied her thoughts from the moment she had first set eyes on him at the school canteen was a vampire. A human-vampire romance!
It’s been 10 years since the last book of The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published. Ten years too, since the first of the five films set on the novels, Twilight, released in November 2008. Meyer received both accolades and criticism for the books, plus a crazy fan following, and has since moved on to write other books. But not only do the Twilight books continue to define her, they have also successfully created an alternative prototype of the vampire, as against the model set by Bram Stoker in the classic Dracula more than a century ago.
“… how can you come out during the daytime?” Bella asks her vampire boyfriend, Edward. “Myth”, he answers. “Burned by the sun?”, she continues. “Myth.” “Sleeping in coffins?” “Myth… I can’t sleep.” With each of Edward’s answers, Meyer deconstructs all popular ideas about vampires and gives them other characteristics – speed, strength, beauty, charm – that help them as predators, but make Edward a superhero to Bella. Some of them have added talents – Edward can hear thoughts, his sister Alice sees the future..
Some things can’t change though. “You haven’t asked me the most important question yet… You aren’t concerned about my diet? … Don’t you want to know if I drink blood?” Edward questions Bella. But Meyer sets Edward and his family apart from the others of their kind, drawing inspiration perhaps from writer Anne Rice’s vampire, Louis. The Cullens (Edward and his family) and a few of their friends are ‘vegetarians’ – a term that they use for themselves – choosing to survive on animal rather than human blood, though it never quite quenches the thirst completely, doesn’t give them the strength human blood does. Edward is firmly portrayed as the protector, saving Bella from her many near-death experiences and the dangerous situations that she finds herself in. Before Bella finally stumbles on to Edward’s real identity, but realises that he is not a normal boy-next-door, she does confess she has been toying with the idea of his having been bitten by a radioactive spider (an allusion to spiderman). “What if I’m not a superhero? What if I’m the bad guy?”, questions Edward.
He doesn’t miss a chance to remind her that he is dangerous. But even the human blood-drinking monsters – and Bella encounters quite a few along the series, including the royalty of the vampire world, the Volturis – menacing though they are, never take the story down the horror route. Post Twilight, “vampires are now mainstream characters, not merely the dark negative villains of yore”, agrees Thomas Abraham, managing director, Hachette India. Perhaps it is a reflection of the author’s character. In a 2008 interview to Entertainment Weekly, Meyer had admitted that she is “waaay too chicken to read horror.” There is a strong dose of fantasy here – Twilight Saga has both vampires and werewolves – and a near-constant battle between the good vampires and those thirsting for Bella’s blood. But at its core, it is the story of Edward and Bella and their love.
Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer Sparknotes
In interviews since the publication of the books, Meyer has said that she had a dream one night of a human girl and a male vampire sitting in a meadow, conversing about their difficult relationship. In the morning, to hold on to that dream, in the midst of caring for her three young sons, she wrote it down and The Twilight Saga was born. Though Meyer has repeatedly expressed wonder at the success of her books, Thomas Abraham says, “My colleague Megan Tingley at Hachette US who acquired the books saw it as a future bestseller right away when she began reading the manuscript”.
Breaking Dawn Stephenie Meyer Epub
The success of the Twilight series has been mind-boggling – especially since many critics have questioned the quality of writing. On writepractice.com (a site for aspiring writers), one of the writers points put her questionable grammar and wrong use of punctuation. In a 2009 interview in The Guardian, horror and supernatural novelist Stephen King was quoted as saying that “Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn”. But that hasn’t affected sales. In India, says Abraham, the Twilight books sold 600,000 copies in total. The figure is negligible when compared to the franchise’s global sales, he says – over 120 million copies have sold worldwide. The films too have done well. Twilight released in India in 2009, after its US release of 2008. “The Twilight Saga began with a net collection of ₹66 lakhs and ended with ₹8.35 crores with Breaking Dawn: Part 2,” says a spokesperson for PVR, the distributor of the films in India.
According to reports in the foreign media, Meyer has a strong fan following, especially among young girls, who often wait for hours to meet her. They go by various names – Twilighters, Fanpyres and Twihards. In Forks, the town’s chamber of commerce celebrates an annual gathering of fans – Forever Twilight – around the time of Bella’s fictional birthday in September. The series has also given a spurt to works in the paranormal and vampire genre, says Abraham. Over 200,000 stories were written online as fan fiction, the most notable being EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey [which emerged as another bestselling series that was made into films and created a subgenre of erotica referred to as ‘mommy porn’], he says. In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, when Meyer was asked whether she had read Fifty Shades… her answer was a firm “no”. She explained: “Erotica is not something I read … There’s a reason my books have a lot of innocence. That’s the sort of world I live in.” Meanwhile, many have branded Twilight as “abstinence porn” and accused Meyer of preaching “sexual purity” to young girls. As Stephen King had put it in The Guardian interview, “It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.”
The readership for Twilight, as Abraham says, is “mainly the young adult segment with a crossover into romance”. This, says the PVR spokesperson, is also the main audience for the Twilight films. Critics worry about the kind of example the books and films set to young girls. Bella’s life revolves around Edward – her mother at one point says she is like a satellite to Edward and when Edward moves, even the tiniest bit, Bella shits accordingly in response. When he leaves her - for her own good, because he is dangerous – Bella herself identifies with the lifeless zombies in a movie that she goes to watch. Feminist readers of Twilight are concerned with the portrayal of Bella – she suffers from low self-esteem, thinks herself not good enough for Edward and is always the damsel in distress needing protection from Edward and her werewolf friend, Jacob. Edward decides the boundaries of their relationship (especially the physical, and is obsessed with protecting her virtue), whether her friends are too dangerous for her or not and places her under the watch of his family when he has to leave. At one point in the series, Meyer does make Jacob point out to Bella that Edward is like a guardian whose permission Bella has to seek before coming to meet him and that he does not allow her to have any fun. He also points out to Edward that Bella has the right to know the danger she is in, when Edward holds back information to not scare Bella. But Bella though often furious with Edward is quick to defend him in front of others. And Jacob himself, though younger to Bella in years, treats her with characteristic male indulgence.
Meyer has also been criticised for making Bella take on the traditional ‘women’s tasks’ – cooking and cleaning. She is also always ready to sacrifice herself to protect those around her.
The criticism has not failed to touch Meyer. Media coverage of an event celebrating 10 years of Twilight, quoted her as saying, “I don’t have a thick skin. I don’t think it would be normal for an author to have a thick skin …so criticism, which I’ve had my share of, is difficult for me.” Perhaps, reading too deeply into Twilight is not fair. You could say it’s just a romance, like many before it. But Meyer’s success and the extreme popularity of Twilight raise questions about the example it sets.
First Published: Dec 08, 2018 19:38 IST
It’s been 10 years since the last film based on Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series was released. HT looks back at the saga that changed the vampire from a figure of horror to a teen romantic hero
hollywoodUpdated: Dec 08, 2018 19:48 ISTIt landed in my mailbox one morning in 2008. The subject line was ‘mush’ and inside, along with the link to an e-book, was a one-line directive from a friend – ‘read it’. I ignored it. After all, my distaste for mush was well known. But she was oddly insistent. And so it was that on a rainy, overcast day in Kolkata, which could compete with an average day in the US town of Forks – where Stephenie Meyer’s The Twilight Saga is set – in terms of the weather that I started reading the first of the series of four books that turned Meyer from a stay-at-home mom of three to a bestselling author. The irony of the downpour in my city, as the novel’s young protagonist, Bella, says goodbye to sunny Phoenix and prepares to move in with her Dad in rainy Forks, was not lost on me. But as yet, I failed to see why my friend had so badly wanted me to read Twilight. It wasn’t something that I would understand till several chapters later, Bella realises that Edward, the boy who had occupied her thoughts from the moment she had first set eyes on him at the school canteen was a vampire. A human-vampire romance!
It’s been 10 years since the last book of The Twilight Saga, Breaking Dawn, was published. Ten years too, since the first of the five films set on the novels, Twilight, released in November 2008. Meyer received both accolades and criticism for the books, plus a crazy fan following, and has since moved on to write other books. But not only do the Twilight books continue to define her, they have also successfully created an alternative prototype of the vampire, as against the model set by Bram Stoker in the classic Dracula more than a century ago.
“… how can you come out during the daytime?” Bella asks her vampire boyfriend, Edward. “Myth”, he answers. “Burned by the sun?”, she continues. “Myth.” “Sleeping in coffins?” “Myth… I can’t sleep.” With each of Edward’s answers, Meyer deconstructs all popular ideas about vampires and gives them other characteristics – speed, strength, beauty, charm – that help them as predators, but make Edward a superhero to Bella. Some of them have added talents – Edward can hear thoughts, his sister Alice sees the future..
Some things can’t change though. “You haven’t asked me the most important question yet… You aren’t concerned about my diet? … Don’t you want to know if I drink blood?” Edward questions Bella. But Meyer sets Edward and his family apart from the others of their kind, drawing inspiration perhaps from writer Anne Rice’s vampire, Louis. The Cullens (Edward and his family) and a few of their friends are ‘vegetarians’ – a term that they use for themselves – choosing to survive on animal rather than human blood, though it never quite quenches the thirst completely, doesn’t give them the strength human blood does. Edward is firmly portrayed as the protector, saving Bella from her many near-death experiences and the dangerous situations that she finds herself in. Before Bella finally stumbles on to Edward’s real identity, but realises that he is not a normal boy-next-door, she does confess she has been toying with the idea of his having been bitten by a radioactive spider (an allusion to spiderman). “What if I’m not a superhero? What if I’m the bad guy?”, questions Edward.
He doesn’t miss a chance to remind her that he is dangerous. But even the human blood-drinking monsters – and Bella encounters quite a few along the series, including the royalty of the vampire world, the Volturis – menacing though they are, never take the story down the horror route. Post Twilight, “vampires are now mainstream characters, not merely the dark negative villains of yore”, agrees Thomas Abraham, managing director, Hachette India. Perhaps it is a reflection of the author’s character. In a 2008 interview to Entertainment Weekly, Meyer had admitted that she is “waaay too chicken to read horror.” There is a strong dose of fantasy here – Twilight Saga has both vampires and werewolves – and a near-constant battle between the good vampires and those thirsting for Bella’s blood. But at its core, it is the story of Edward and Bella and their love.
In interviews since the publication of the books, Meyer has said that she had a dream one night of a human girl and a male vampire sitting in a meadow, conversing about their difficult relationship. In the morning, to hold on to that dream, in the midst of caring for her three young sons, she wrote it down and The Twilight Saga was born. Though Meyer has repeatedly expressed wonder at the success of her books, Thomas Abraham says, “My colleague Megan Tingley at Hachette US who acquired the books saw it as a future bestseller right away when she began reading the manuscript”.
The success of the Twilight series has been mind-boggling – especially since many critics have questioned the quality of writing. On writepractice.com (a site for aspiring writers), one of the writers points put her questionable grammar and wrong use of punctuation. In a 2009 interview in The Guardian, horror and supernatural novelist Stephen King was quoted as saying that “Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn”. But that hasn’t affected sales. In India, says Abraham, the Twilight books sold 600,000 copies in total. The figure is negligible when compared to the franchise’s global sales, he says – over 120 million copies have sold worldwide. The films too have done well. Twilight released in India in 2009, after its US release of 2008. “The Twilight Saga began with a net collection of ₹66 lakhs and ended with ₹8.35 crores with Breaking Dawn: Part 2,” says a spokesperson for PVR, the distributor of the films in India.
According to reports in the foreign media, Meyer has a strong fan following, especially among young girls, who often wait for hours to meet her. They go by various names – Twilighters, Fanpyres and Twihards. In Forks, the town’s chamber of commerce celebrates an annual gathering of fans – Forever Twilight – around the time of Bella’s fictional birthday in September. The series has also given a spurt to works in the paranormal and vampire genre, says Abraham. Over 200,000 stories were written online as fan fiction, the most notable being EL James’s Fifty Shades of Grey [which emerged as another bestselling series that was made into films and created a subgenre of erotica referred to as ‘mommy porn’], he says. In a 2013 interview with The Guardian, when Meyer was asked whether she had read Fifty Shades… her answer was a firm “no”. She explained: “Erotica is not something I read … There’s a reason my books have a lot of innocence. That’s the sort of world I live in.” Meanwhile, many have branded Twilight as “abstinence porn” and accused Meyer of preaching “sexual purity” to young girls. As Stephen King had put it in The Guardian interview, “It’s exciting and it’s thrilling and it’s not particularly threatening because they’re not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that’s a shorthand for all the feelings that they’re not ready to deal with yet.”
The readership for Twilight, as Abraham says, is “mainly the young adult segment with a crossover into romance”. This, says the PVR spokesperson, is also the main audience for the Twilight films. Critics worry about the kind of example the books and films set to young girls. Bella’s life revolves around Edward – her mother at one point says she is like a satellite to Edward and when Edward moves, even the tiniest bit, Bella shits accordingly in response. When he leaves her - for her own good, because he is dangerous – Bella herself identifies with the lifeless zombies in a movie that she goes to watch. Feminist readers of Twilight are concerned with the portrayal of Bella – she suffers from low self-esteem, thinks herself not good enough for Edward and is always the damsel in distress needing protection from Edward and her werewolf friend, Jacob. Edward decides the boundaries of their relationship (especially the physical, and is obsessed with protecting her virtue), whether her friends are too dangerous for her or not and places her under the watch of his family when he has to leave. At one point in the series, Meyer does make Jacob point out to Bella that Edward is like a guardian whose permission Bella has to seek before coming to meet him and that he does not allow her to have any fun. He also points out to Edward that Bella has the right to know the danger she is in, when Edward holds back information to not scare Bella. But Bella though often furious with Edward is quick to defend him in front of others. And Jacob himself, though younger to Bella in years, treats her with characteristic male indulgence.
Meyer has also been criticised for making Bella take on the traditional ‘women’s tasks’ – cooking and cleaning. She is also always ready to sacrifice herself to protect those around her.
The criticism has not failed to touch Meyer. Media coverage of an event celebrating 10 years of Twilight, quoted her as saying, “I don’t have a thick skin. I don’t think it would be normal for an author to have a thick skin …so criticism, which I’ve had my share of, is difficult for me.” Perhaps, reading too deeply into Twilight is not fair. You could say it’s just a romance, like many before it. But Meyer’s success and the extreme popularity of Twilight raise questions about the example it sets.
First Published: Dec 08, 2018 19:38 IST