Twilight Movie Release
So what makes the Twilight Series so popular with teens? Tonight in movie theaters around the country, teens are already lining up for the opening of the Twilight movie. The books, Twilight, Eclipse, New Moon and Breaking Dawn, a series about a love/vampire story written by Stephenie Meyer are simply entertaining. They are ripe with well defined characters. I noticed with this series too, the setting is very pivotal to the characters and their needs.
It’s not often setting comes to play within a plot, but in the Twilight series, how can a family of vampires live anywhere else but in the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State in a town where it always rains - ergo, no sun. Meyers intertwines the setting amongst the characters like roots twisting in a pot. You can’t have one without the other.
Bella and Edward, two opposites that should not attract, do and the reader is drawn into an emotional mystery of will he, won’t he. Should she, will she. Edward is a respectable, virtuous vampire and what father wouldn’t like him, except for the weirdness factor. Bella is an ordinary teen who doesn’t need to be the queen of the prom to catch the best looking guy in the school.
It seems like the Bella/Edward saga should end with the 4th book, but my writer’s intution says that Meyer’s left one opening in the plot that could lead to a fifth novel. What do you think?
Tags: Plot, setting, Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series, Writing
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