The Twilight Saga

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[Note: Copyright (C) 2008 by Little, Brown and Company. Page 10 - 11 from The Official Twilightt Guide.]

That classic image of a ruined castle

atop a craggy peak and a dark

passageway within leading to a

 cobwebbed crypt where vampires slumber in

coffins from dawn to dusk? Wrong. That business

about vampires being nocturnal, able to

transform into bats, anf for it's death to
be caught in sunlight? Not true. The power of a

crucifix or garlic gloves to ward off the undead?

Don't even go there. 

         Imagine instead a cultural family of

vampires who commune with mortals in the

daytime, drive fast cars, never sleep, and include

a respected member of the community. Imagine

a scenario in which vampires avoid sunlight only

because itreveals their true nature to humans---

a vampire's pale skin reflects sunshine like the

light of a thousand sparkling diamonds.

Imagine the "cold ones" as an evolved species,

their genesis lost in the primordial mystery of

prehistory. Forget the fanged nocturnal blood-

suckers of legend and see vampires for what they

really are--- beautiful creatures.

Such are the reisionist takes on vampire

 lore posited by Stephenie Meyer in Twilight, her

debut novel published in 2005. The story is told

 from the point of view of seventeen-year-old

Isabella Swan, whose parents are divorces and

 who has just moved from her mom's house in

 the Pheonix suburb of Scottsdale to her dad's

home in Forks, Wahington, a small town in

the Olympic Peninsula perpetually shrouded

in rainy weather. For Bella, as she prefers to be

called, it's a return to where she has spent most

of her summers and a place she detests but her

father, the chief of police, has always loved.

She enrools at Forks High School and quickly

notices the Cullen kids, the childrenof a local

respected doctor. They're hard to miss -- they

dress and look like fashion models, and Edward

Cullen, Bella's pertner in biology class is the

most handsome of all. No one suspects they're

vampires. As Bella grows closer to Edward and

discovers his secrets, she learns Dr. Carlisle

Cullen's coven has made the choice to feed on

wild animals, not human blood --- "vegetarian

vampires" they joke. One rare sun-filled day,

Edward reveals himself to Bella by showing his

skin shimmering in the sunlight, exhibiting his

physical strength and speed, and describing his

instinct for human blood--- and she loves him

all the more. Edward has found his soul mate

in Bella, but he's tortured by her intoxicating

scent and has to resist making his love his prey.

Bella sees Edward as a pillar of strength, with a

face and body like a Renaissance marble figure

come to life---- "Edward...glorious as a young

god" she sighs---and she's so in love she begins

flirting with the notion that Edward should take

her and make her a vampire so they can spend

eternity forever.