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grow a spine AND get a brain.
I loved the ending of Twilight, the first novel, and really like how Meyers brought everything together for the end of Breaking Dawn. The element of the ending of New Moon carrying into the start of Eclipse that rubbed me the wrong way was Charlie's grounding of Bella. It carried on for far too long through the start of Eclipse and diminished from the strength and independence of the female heroine. Plus, housework is not a punishment - it is service. My friends and I loved how Bella could cook and wanted to do that for Charlie in Twilight. The grounding threw me out of the novel Eclipse into analysis of the destructiveness of punishment in relationships and as a non punitive teacher and caregiver, someone who has been adamantly against punishment of children and teens for all of my 40 something years, that element turned me off. I think that the novels would work better if that element was removed or at least greatly diminished.
Cynthia wrote: "I loved the ending of Twilight, the first novel, and really like how Meyers brought everything together for the end of Breaking Dawn. The element of the ending of New Moon carrying into the start o..."
You're calling BELLA a heroine? Are you genuinely serious?
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I loved the ending of Twilight, the first novel, and really like how Meyers brought everything together for the end of Breaking Dawn. The element of the ending of New Moon carrying into the start of Eclipse that rubbed me the wrong way was Charlie's grounding of Bella. It carried on for far too long through the start of Eclipse and diminished from the strength and independence of the female heroine. Plus, housework is not a punishment - it is service. My friends and I loved how Bella could cook and wanted to do that for Charlie in Twilight. The grounding threw me out of the novel Eclipse into analysis of the destructiveness of punishment in relationships and as a non punitive teacher and caregiver, someone who has been adamantly against punishment of children and teens for all of my 40 something years, that element turned me off. I think that the novels would work better if that element was removed or at least greatly diminished.
Cynthia wrote: "I loved the ending of Twilight, the first novel, and really like how Meyers brought everything together for the end of Breaking Dawn. The element of the ending of New Moon carrying into the start o..."You're calling BELLA a heroine? Are you genuinely serious?
