Stories need conflict, and the conflicts that are Bella-centric are resolved. It makes me sad, of course, but I was expecting it. The negative was more than I was braced for, but that was because the book sold a lot more copies than I expected. It was bigger than I thought it would be on both the positive and the negative sides.
Because no book is a good book for everyone. Conversely, there are books that I adore that no one else seems to care about. The surprise to me is that so many people do like my books. I wrote them for a very specific audience of one, and so there was no guarantee that any other person on the planet besides me would enjoy them.
With Breaking Dawn , the expectation was so huge and so intense that I knew the negative reaction was going to be especially bad this time. No book—or album, or movie, or tv show, or any other kind of entertainment—can answer to that level of expectation.
Oh, it might do it for some people, it might be exactly what they were looking for. If I could go back in time, knowing everything I know right now, and write the whole series again, I would write exactly the same story. The writing would be better, though—practice makes perfect. This is the story I wanted to write, and I love Breaking Dawn.
Also, that it might be impossible to film. What does that mean? The book is just so long! But maybe a screenwriter can see a way to do it and still cover the crucial plot points. You can do almost anything with CGI these days—realistic dragons and dinosaurs and endless amounts of nonexistent creatures that blend right in with the real elements.
When I hear or read theories about Bella being an anti-feminist character, those theories are usually predicated on her choices. In the beginning, she chooses romantic love over everything else. Eventually, she chooses to marry at an early age and then chooses to keep an unexpected and dangerous baby.
She is a character in a story, nothing more or less. Bella chooses things differently than how I would do it if I were in her shoes, because she is a very different type of person than I am. But do her choices make her a negative example of empowerment?
In my own opinion key word , the foundation of feminism is this: being able to choose. That feels backward to me. How is that empowering? Are there rules about if, when, and how we love or marry and if, when, and how we have kids?
To me, those limitations seem anti-feminist in basic principle. Do I think eighteen is a good age at which to get married? Personally—as in, for the person I was at eighteen—no. However, Bella is constrained by fantastic circumstances that I never had to deal with.
Is eighteen too young to give up your mortality? For me, any age is too young for that. Renesmee's rapid development means that she does everything much earlier than a normal baby. Renesmee will never be the same weight or height as other babies her age because she'll have outgrown them all by years by the time her three-month checkup rolls around.
By three weeks of age, Renesmee is already walking, beating normal babies by months, and she can speak in full sentences by the end of her first week of life, when most babies can only cry and make random noises.
By the time other babies are speaking, Renesmee is running, jumping, and wearing clothing from the children's department. Anyone who's been pregnant before knows what a battle it can be to provide adequate nutrition for a developing baby. Not only do you need to avoid certain foods and attempt to take in sufficient vitamins for yourself and the baby, but your body works against you, providing the developing fetus with vitamins before your body is able to access them.
Before Bella gave birth to Renesmee, the baby's need for human blood spread into her mother, who discovered that she needed to drink it in order to give her daughter the nutrients that she needed to live. While Bella didn't need the blood for her own survival, she does drink donated human blood before she becomes a vampire in order to give Renesmee nutrients. One of the side effects of being a human-vampire hybrid rather than a full vampire is that Renesmee is non-venomous.
Like the other hybrid female vampires, she doesn't carry the poison used to make new vampires, making her even less dangerous to the vampire community than the Volturi and their supporters suspected in the first place. While Renesmee may have some healing capabilities, she won't be able to completely heal herself in the case of a large wound, like dismemberment, as a male hybrid is able to do.
She might still smell like a vampire, but her non-venomous nature is thought by many fans to reflect her human side. One of the wildest things about Renesmee Cullen is her ability to not only communicate with her father, but to reason with him while inside the womb. It's may baffle us, but it reassures her dad, who, up until this point, treated her as a hostile parasite inflicting harm on his wife. When Edward was able to sense Renesmee's love for her mother, he realized that she wasn't attempting to off her; she simply couldn't help her strength.
Edward is also able to tell his daughter that she's harming her mother, and she's able to reason with the information and stop doing so much damage. Even those who don't like Bella Swan couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor woman during her wildly abnormal pregnancy, which not only progressed at an extremely rapid rate but also resulted in her nearly biting the dust in the process. Renesmee might be a cute, sweet kid, but as a unborn baby she put her mother through the ringer.
She drained Bella close to lifelessness, beat her up from her own powerful movements in the womb, and even managed to break her mom's ribs. It definitely wasn't an easy pregnancy, if such a pregnancy even truly exists in the first place. The fact that it will only take Renesmee seven years to reach adulthood makes no sense. There's no explanation given for this timeline, nor for why her age will freeze in young adulthood.
It's senseless and random, seemingly designed only to age her up for Jacob. Lots of writers find the daily struggles of parenthood too tedious for entertainment, leaving them to write kids in sporadically, aging them rapidly, or otherwise glossing over the kids' existence in the parents' lives. Bella and Edward have a pretty easy parenthood ahead of them once they manage to keep their daughter safe from the Volturi.
Many fans cringed at the thought of Jacob Black giving Renesmee the equivalent of a promise ring during her first Christmas. What should have been a time for playing with toys and enjoying what little childhood she had instead became a moment of weird romance that felt inappropriate to many people.
Jacob didn't gift her a ring, but the charm bracelet that he gave Renesmee was his tribe's equivalent of a promise ring, so it had the same implications.
Her other gifts, such as a locket and MP3 player, are also much too old for a first Christmas, but appropriate for the rapidly ageing Renesmee. Jacob Black : Should I start calling you dad? Edward Cullen : No.
Jacob Black : [about Renesmee] She's gonna be around a long time, isn't she? Edward Cullen : I'm glad she has you. Jacob Black : [smirks] So, should I call you "Dad" now? Edward Cullen : [shakes head] No. Jacob Black : Do you remember how much you wanted to be around me three days ago? That's gone now, right? Jacob Black : Because it was her.
From the beginning, it was Nessie who wanted me there. Bella Cullen : [shouts furiously] Nessie? Seth, in wolf form, jumps at Bella to protect Jacob. Without breaking stride, Bella bats Seth aside, and into a tree].
Jacob Black : Seth, are you okay? Bella Cullen : [immediately regretful] Seth, I'm sorry. Jacob Black : He'll be all right. Bella, you know me better than anyone. All I want is for Ness Jacob Black Renesmee to be safe. Look, nothing ever made sense before. Who's nessie in twilight? Asked by: Miss Jaclyn White.
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