twilight

I like vampire movies and novels a lot. Twilight may be one of my favorite. I watch the movies many times and this is the first time I read the actually book on it. After I reading the book, I feel that is quite different than the movie. Maybe it is because I think more deeply on it comparing to watching the movies.

A first question jump out in my head is that is Bella really an empty character. During the class discussion, many of people point out that Bella is like an empty character and she does not have the life of her own. However, I do not think so. To start with, I do not believe that any people can have an empty life. From my point of view, some of people like to be surrounded by crown and do things with others. On the other hand, there are people who prefer to stay alone, and do everything by themselves, like Bella. She feels uncomfortable of being surrounded by people, she does not like to be the center of the attention and also her interests are not so similar with her friends. This is why she feels bored with friends sometimes. It is just because they have different styles of lives.

I feel a kind of attachment with Bella because we share lots of commons in living. We both do not like sports, have no much interest over fashion, and not feel comfortable with many people around. Therefore, I know how it looks when her life is concentrated with people in her lives. It seems like she is living for others, or in other words, she is an accessory of others. What people see is Bella's life with Edward which is kind of public life of her. Her own life is not noticeable comparing to this prefect romantic love. If people dig deeper, they will find that Bella is a very soft girl who care of others' feelings, try to do no harm on everyone and judge no body by the appearance. This is Bella's most outstanding characteristic, her kindness. How many people can do what she does? To forgive a person who almost kill you. To move away from the closest person, her mother, to make sure mom does not need to choose between Phil and her. To keep others' secrets like she does. All of them are not easy for any people, but Bella has done all of them. She is not nobody.

Another question that keeps bothering me is that is Meyer really fail to build Bella's character. As many people mentioned, Bella is seem to be too normal. She has nothing special, she is passive and she never asks for things. Every amazing thing just happens to her. It is not makes sense to most of readers. However, if you look in the other way, you will find why Bella is so normal. Firstly, I do not think to build Bella as a special girl is hard for Meyer since she can spend chapters to describe smelling, dialogs or thoughts of characters. Then, I start to wonder does Meyer do all of these in purposes. Why will she do this? To relate this question with the huge amount of twilight fans today, it will make sense. How many girls dream to be another Bella? How many girls believe that they can have their own Edward after they see the twilight? Here is the point. Because Bella is as normal as every girl can be, Meyer just catches readers' fantasy about love and boys. From this point of view, Meyer really builds a wonderful character for this love story which can easily get people emotionally involved with it.

After all, once again, I like twilight. It proves me a love story that I can dream for myself. As people always said, it is always nice to dream and it is better to have something to dream for.