What I Hate About Twilight

Before you read this post, you should check out these links:
1. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29001524/
2. http://www.youtube.com/user/nuttymadam3575?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/50/NDQ2h4hrors
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zb72V_4N5ko
4. http://www.cracked.com/funny-36-twilight/

Now, I know at least a couple of people who read my blog are huge Twilight fans (I'm talking about you Jenn With 2 N's ) so this post might upset them, but Twilight is getting on my nerves. But it's not the idea that vampires sparkle which bothers me. Or that Edward is really old but is digging a 17 year old chick, or even that the book is very poorly written. What bothers me about Twilight is that girls are taking it way too seriously.

Before I start on this, I know that there are many people who simply read the books because they enjoy it, and can leave it at that. The people who understand that the series is just simply that, a series of books, are not the people with whom I have a problem. It is the large group of people who have almost begun to live by the books that bother me.

The books are written specifically for teenage girls. The main character, Bella, has little or no personality, which allows these young girls to project themselves on her. In the beginning of the novel, Bella states that she's boring and there's nothing really special about her. Everyone everywhere feels that way at some point, especially young girls who must deal with the hell that is the middle school social life. By having such an empty character, it is easy for these girls to connect with her.

Once they have made that connection, Bella's life becomes their own. Now, every book must connect its readers to the characters, otherwise there would be no point in reading books. But the problem is that many girls not only connect with Bella, but they live through her. So whatever happens to her happens to them. Through Bella they learn what true love is, the love that she and Edward share. But this isn't true love.

I've already admitted that I don't know a thing about love, but I do know that love ends. Whether it's through a break up, a divorce, or death, love ends at some point. (Taken from author John Green.) And people aren't prefect, like Edward Cullen. There is nobody who will look perpetually 17 and who has no character flaws. Everyone makes mistakes and true love takes work. But this is not what the majority of people who are reading Twilight get from it.

Basically, if you can read Twilight and take it for only what it is, a novel in which you can escape for a few hours, then great! That is what books are meant to do, and Twilight is good at doing that. But please, don't get caught up in the book so much that you forget that the characters aren't real. When you get in a relationship, know that people make mistakes, and that it takes work to make relationships last.

But if anything, at least people are still reading.

-Beast