Twilight Vs. Harry Potter
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Re: Twilight Vs. Harry Potter
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Twilight is marketed to higher level teenage students and written at a sixth grade level. Harry Potter grew as it's target audience grew, allowing the readers to develop with the story. Twilight is readable by children as young as ten and therefore should not have the issues that it dealt with available to young readers.
I can not name an instance of symbolism in Twilight, everything in those books is straight forward, as it's read. Meyer's tells you everything you should be thinking and feeling. She gives you no room to infer what you should feel. Rowling guides you and allows the reader to make their own assumptions and feelings about her characters, which is why her books are so unpredictable. Mostly as you are so busy making your mind up about how you feel about something that you don't even realise that the direction she's going is the complete opposite of where you are. The character development in Twilight is severely lacking, in fact, Bella never learns. She constantly and consistently puts herself in a reckless amount of danger over someone who at certain points completely lets her down and abandons her. Finally, the themes in Twilight promote the idea of a selfless love, so selfless in fact that you would literally abandon all thoughts of yourself if something were to go wrong in the relationship. Frankly, Edward, in my opinion, is a very manipulative character and Bella is a vapid girl who's all too eager to allow him to control her.
The books are miles apart, and there is nothing that could convince me that twilight is or ever was a good book series.
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Excellent post! I completely agree with you that Harry Potter is in a completely different league than Twilight....the "well-written" league vs. the "poorly written" league. Twilight was just marketed well. The Harry Potter series is heads and shoulders above Twilight in every category - writing, character development, plot. I always felt Twilight was way overrated.renohunter26 wrote:I am going to go ahead and say it, The Harry Potter series is ten times better than the Twilight Series could ever think of being and I'll explain why. Now don't get me wrong, you're correct in saying that the two series are completely different. That is a very true statement. So content wise the two books can not be compared. The writing style of Twilight is the problem I have. Those books are very poorly written, the symbolism is lacking, there is little to no character development and the themes that are presented are problematic in a multitude of ways.
Twilight is marketed to higher level teenage students and written at a sixth grade level. Harry Potter grew as it's target audience grew, allowing the readers to develop with the story. Twilight is readable by children as young as ten and therefore should not have the issues that it dealt with available to young readers.
I can not name an instance of symbolism in Twilight, everything in those books is straight forward, as it's read. Meyer's tells you everything you should be thinking and feeling. She gives you no room to infer what you should feel. Rowling guides you and allows the reader to make their own assumptions and feelings about her characters, which is why her books are so unpredictable. Mostly as you are so busy making your mind up about how you feel about something that you don't even realise that the direction she's going is the complete opposite of where you are. The character development in Twilight is severely lacking, in fact, Bella never learns. She constantly and consistently puts herself in a reckless amount of danger over someone who at certain points completely lets her down and abandons her. Finally, the themes in Twilight promote the idea of a selfless love, so selfless in fact that you would literally abandon all thoughts of yourself if something were to go wrong in the relationship. Frankly, Edward, in my opinion, is a very manipulative character and Bella is a vapid girl who's all too eager to allow him to control her.
The books are miles apart, and there is nothing that could convince me that twilight is or ever was a good book series.
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I for one never understood what exactly is the character of Bella and her relation with Edward. It was so frustrating and also irritating, talking about it makes me annoyed. I do not like it and I agree that Harry Potter is WAY better than Twilight.renohunter26 wrote:I am going to go ahead and say it, The Harry Potter series is ten times better than the Twilight Series could ever think of being and I'll explain why. Now don't get me wrong, you're correct in saying that the two series are completely different. That is a very true statement. So content wise the two books can not be compared. The writing style of Twilight is the problem I have. Those books are very poorly written, the symbolism is lacking, there is little to no character development and the themes that are presented are problematic in a multitude of ways.
Twilight is marketed to higher level teenage students and written at a sixth grade level. Harry Potter grew as it's target audience grew, allowing the readers to develop with the story. Twilight is readable by children as young as ten and therefore should not have the issues that it dealt with available to young readers.
I can not name an instance of symbolism in Twilight, everything in those books is straight forward, as it's read. Meyer's tells you everything you should be thinking and feeling. She gives you no room to infer what you should feel. Rowling guides you and allows the reader to make their own assumptions and feelings about her characters, which is why her books are so unpredictable. Mostly as you are so busy making your mind up about how you feel about something that you don't even realise that the direction she's going is the complete opposite of where you are. The character development in Twilight is severely lacking, in fact, Bella never learns. She constantly and consistently puts herself in a reckless amount of danger over someone who at certain points completely lets her down and abandons her. Finally, the themes in Twilight promote the idea of a selfless love, so selfless in fact that you would literally abandon all thoughts of yourself if something were to go wrong in the relationship. Frankly, Edward, in my opinion, is a very manipulative character and Bella is a vapid girl who's all too eager to allow him to control her.
The books are miles apart, and there is nothing that could convince me that twilight is or ever was a good book series.
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Both series were and always will be pop literature phenomenons, for different reasons. Harry Potter for its whimsical style and bedtime story telling, (not unlike our most beloved British writers) and Twilight because its the kind of drama people, in general, just love to eat up. I don't very much like Twilight for its obvious reasons, mostly because the authors political opinions are so blatantly shoved in your face.
In ways that they are similar, their marketing teams made the money pour from the sky, and neither author knows when to lay a good story to rest.
Also, I think a better comparison would be Twilight vs. Hunger Games, as both are written in first person, our main protagonist is a female, and both are written rather poorly. (Sorry Hunger Games fans, nothing personal, I enjoyed the story.)
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Even if you know everything that is going to happen in the book. It is still soon worth reading. It's one of those books that I have read numerous times because you often miss little details or have a different view on it in you second reading. You should definitely still take a read. I promise it'll be worth your time.Hailey_Gardner wrote:To be honest, never read the harry potter books. I was going to but my husband decided to ruin the ending. So I can't really compare the books but I do think harry potter movies were better.