Twilight
I. About the author and its story behind the book
Twilight Series: Twilight (Book One), a young-adult vampire-romance novel written by Stephenie Morgan Meyer, was published in New York by Little, Brown Young Readers in 2005.
Stephenie Meyer, the biggest selling author of 2008, was born in Hartford, Connecticut, the U.S. in 1973. Her family was settled in Phoenix by the time she was four, considering that she thought of herself as a native. And in Twilight, Phoenix was also the place where Bella (the main character of this novel) used to live. Meyer attended Chaparral High School in Scottsdale, Arizona and Brigham Young University, where she received a B.A. in English in 1995.
In her autobiography, she told us that the large influences for her writings are Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, William Shakespeare, Orson Scott Card, etc. As a result, most of her works are inclined to have romance and fantasy.
Before publishing this book, Meyer was an ordinary housewife who raised three brilliant children with her beloved husband. It was amazing that how she came up with the story of Twilight – it’s just a wonderful dream. She woke up (on June 2nd, 2003) from a very vivid dream. In her dream, two people were having an intense conversation in a meadow in the woods. One of these people was just our average girl. The other person was stunningly attractive, sparkly, and a vampire. They were discussing the difficulties inherent in the facts that they were falling in love with each other while the vampire was particularly attracted to the scent of her blood, and was having a hard time to restrain himself from killing her immediately. And this is the scene of Chapter 13 of Twilight.
II. Synopsis
The modern story begins with the protagonist and narrator, Isabella (Bella) Swan, moving from Phoenix, to the small town of Forks, a dreary and rain-filled place, to live with her father, Charlie Swan. She develops a relationship with a fellow student,...