Talk:Breaking Dawn/@comment-98.156.98.230-20120212035555/@comment-11533729-20120402013450

Okay, so to answer your question from beginning to end:

1) I'm a mildly interested reader.

2) What do I like about Twilight? It's an entertaining story. Is that not what novels are about? I don't think it's the best thing ever written, nor is it my favorite, but it sure caught my attention and got me to read the entire series.

It seriously bothers me when people go through every book searching for a 'deeper meaning' or hope to find some life-altering role model or something. It doesn't make you an intellectual. Books can be purely for entertainment, too. But if you must need to know some morals or themes to be mildly interested in a book series, I can think of a few off the top of my head.

- The significance and power of togetherness. In Breaking Dawn, the characters gather covens, travelling vampires and all to witness the growth of Renesmee and give the Volturi a reason to stop and listen before they destroy and take over the coven. Banding together gives them power even over the strongest of their kind, and they can do it long enough to save their lives and others.

Or, you can just look at the fact that the larger the coven = more power and longer-lasting.

- Fate and morality is learned and gained through experience in life, and it's changeable no matter who you are or what you become, as long as you are willing. Edward used to think that he is a monster, and everyone that becomes a vampire will also become a soulless beast just based on the fact that they've been turned, but this is proven wrong by his family, and Bella, when she also changes. They can defy the nature of their beings and what they are, and learn to coexist with humans because they don't want to be monsters. I think this speaks volumes and is relatable for some people in real life, who may come from broken homes or born to parents that are worthless or have given up on life, succumbed to drugs, etc., and they can know that they aren't destined to be whatever they were born as or who their parents are, if they're willing to change and learn, they can be and do whatever they want to be.

If one is willing to look beyond the surface, they can find more than just "obsessive love" or "teen pregnancy". Even if this was really just about "everything today's youth struggles with", as you say, is that so bad? Are depictions of what's happening in real life, good or bad, really something to be condemned? I don't understand that logic. It sounds really ignorant.