TWILIGHT BY STEPHENIE MEYER: STUDY NOTES / BOOK ANALYSIS

AUTHOR’S STYLE

The style of Twilight is straightforward, conversational, and highly accessible, as one would expect from a Young Adult novel. Written from the perspective of a teenage girl going through difficult situations, there are canny observations on her parents and peers, as well as moments of self-deprecating humor. There are also pop cultural allusions which..........

QUOTES - IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS AND ANALYSIS

1.) After a quote from the Book of Genesis, the Preface begins:

I'd never given much thought to how I would die - though I'd had reason enough in the last few months - but even if I had, I would have not imagined it like this.

I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.

Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something. (1)

Given the conventions of the genre, readers may have certain expectations: the narrator is sacrificing herself for the sake of her love, who will be a vampire, and that this "hunter" is a hunter of vampires. Those familiar with vampires in popular culture may think of Van Helsing from Dracula, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and the anime Vampire Hunter D. We find out the details at the climax of the novel, but it is not as expected: the room is the dance studio near Bella's mother's home in Phoenix, Arizona; the hunter is James, a vampire who hunts humans; and the person for whom Bella is sacrificing her life is her mother..........

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