My take on the Twilight Saga..And thank you so much Stephenie Meyer for changing my life"
Back in early 2009 I was in the middle of spending my tax money. My aunt and I would talk about many subjects on the phone. One particular topic came up.
My aunt Lynn was talking about how much she enjoyed reading the Twilight saga. I said "Oh I saw pictures of that Edward Cullen guy but what makes it so special? She told me "Just start reading it, you'll see." So I went to Wally World and bought all of the books.
I started reading and couldn't put it down.
Basically Twilight is about a young girl, Bella Swan, who moves up to the rainy Washington town of Forks. Her father lives up there and is the chief of police. She reconnects w/her childhood friend Jacob Black and gets the old red truck he worked on. The first day of school Bella meets some new classmates. She's the type who normally keeps to herself but come lunch period she notices a special group of students that have a unique pale look...The Cullens. Then Edward Cullen walks into the lunchroom and Bella is magnetically drawn to him. Here's a scene from the movie:
Anyhow, again, she sees him in class. Unbeknownst to Bella Edward gets of whiff of her scent. The most delectable blood he's ever smelled.
Anyhow they finally have their first talk, and she's about to leave school. She notices Edward's staring at her, and for a very good reason. His psychically gifted adopted sister Alice predicted that she was in danger.
She begins to suspect that there's something to this guy that is not natural. Fast forward later, she's in Port Angeles with two classmates and instead of trying on prom dresses she picks up a book at the local Quiluete tribe bookstore on "The cold ones". She gets intercepted by some unsavory characters who most probably have gang rape on their mind. Edward to the rescue again. He saves her life, and there's a local murder by unsavory vamps on a human that Bella's father knew. Bella checks out the book she got earlier, leading to another favorite scene of mine...Her discovery that Edward is a vampire.
It gets even better. As seen here:
I really can relate to Bella. She's clumsy, and she never felt "normal" I think that's why many of those with alcoholism and/or addiction related issues have loved this movie so much. Bella being the hopeless romantic, and Edward, who has fallen in love with her are a throwback to the classic novels of yesteryear. I'm not going to post anymore scenes, I'm gonna say watch it because it has elements of love, sacrifice, a sense of belonging to a group of people that one can be themself around.
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