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Reign said:
The Twilight series has a negative impact on teenagers. However, it also depends on what the reader thought about the book itself to say that it had a "positive" impact. I volunteer as a Sunday school teacher for an 8th grade (ages 12-13 ish) and I communicate with many other kids up to junior سال of High School (16-17). While there are some that are very pulled in سے طرف کی the story, I find that they are just in love with the general plot of Twilight: An ordinary girl find a spectacular and forbidden world through a person who falls hopelessly in love with. Every person wants to get away from the monotony of everyday life. And it is human nature to have aspirations and find something amazing to expand our knowledge, history and understanding- to make us feel accomplished in our lives. And lets face it, in every girl (or guy) there is a hopeless romantic, wishing that a love with such depth was easy to find and hold onto. As such, who can hold it against the young readers for being attracted to the book? But as آپ read the book and delve into the characters (or lack thereof) is where the readers will choose how it affects them. In my opinion, Twilight has a negative impact because the protagonist, Bella Swan, does not "grow" through the series. She stays a person who is so distracted سے طرف کی love that she relies on others, mainly her lover, to protect her. And part of the reason why the protaganist does not change is because the partner, Edward, does not allow her to change. Edward, being a very possessive and overly protective person, drives away the people that could possibly give her a new perspective on the situation. Also, the relationship is just not...for lack of better word, right. Women shouldn't have to feel the need to be protected سے طرف کی a man. Women should be able to have their own set of morals and act upon them, instead of a man telling her how she should behave یا act یا look. So, where does the positive fit in with all of this? The positive is that some girls might realize how easy it is to be caught in an abusive relationship. Some women, who are able to step back and look at the situation will see the warning signs that Edward is not the perfect man. Why would آپ be enamored سے طرف کی a man who sneaks into your room at night when آپ don't know him? There is also a chance that the women who are obsessed with with the کتابیں are just experiencing a passing phase (fueled سے طرف کی hormones, no doubt) and when they look back, they would see how wrong the relationship they were fawning over really is. The Twilight series has an unchanging protagonist in a non healthy relationship, and does not bring any creativity to the vampire genre that hasn't been done before, and only preys on the fantasies and underdeveloped ideas of what love is. I doubt I need to point out how negative these points are to the young minds of the world.
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