Critical Analysis of Twilight Article: Jessica; A Rant

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posted by renrae

We have a discussion on the foros here about noteworthy things in twilight. I picked Angela, and now I realize that Jessica is noteworthy, too.

We'll start with Jessica!Hate. Besides Lauren, Jessica is probably the most hated human friend that Bella has. Reasons Twilighters give for this are 'Jessica is a brat', 'she ignores her in book two', 'she's too hyper', and 'i just don't like her'. Some of those are just ridiculous. 'Jessica is a brat'. How? How is Jessica a brat? Answer: She isn't. 'she ignores bella in book two' I'll elaborate on this one later, because it's pretty big. 'shes too hyper' Ummm, if tu didn't like hyper, then tu wouldn't like Alice. Jessica.. isn't what I would say is hyper. 'i just dont like her' Same answer with 'Jessica is a brat'.

I don't see why Jessica is so unliked. When Bella arrives at Forks, Jessica is nothing but nice to her. She invites her to go dress shopping with her, and Bella uses her in this situation. Bella heads off to a bookstore to find out about Edward.

Jessica ditches Bella in book two. This is partly true. In New Moon, after Edward leaves her, Bella becomes... catatonic. She hardly eats. she hardly sleeps. Her grades drop. She becomes less social. She cannot live her life because she was dependent on Edward. Jessica, and Bella's other 'friends', try in vain to help her. It says in the book that jessica calls many times, but Bella ignores it. Eventually, she stops calling because bella is ignoring her. People complain that Jessica is rude to Bella, but if your friend ditched tu and did what Bella did, would tu still be friends with her? I doubt it!

Jessica has many good qualities. She is nice, she is happy, she is not exclusive, she helps other people... if she had been fleshed out a bit más than she would have been a great character. jessica is open to bella, and accepts her within her group of friends. Bella, again, ignores this and uses them.

All in all, I really like Jessica. She is a great character and I do not understand why she isn't liked. Not the greatest conclusion ever, but she really is a great character.

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Cinders I remember liking Bella's friends in the movie very much, because I felt there was a lot of unexplored potential there that either the script writers, or Stephanie Meyer herself, ignored. They seemed like genuinely flawed characters, or, in other words, realistic human beings. Even though her two girl friends were sometimes self-centered, vain or obnoxious, that's exactly how teenage girls can act sometimes, and it wasn't overly extreme to be unrealistic. Also, I want to say something about Bella's arrival at school. I have moved around a lot, both overseas and in the US. Also, I am very familiar with small Washington towns. These two experiences coupled together told me that a new girl going to a new school in a new, small, close-knit town would NOT be accepted as immediately as she was. Maybe a student would be assigned to show her around, but it's been my experience that these "first day guides" are more polite than friendly. I think Cady's experience coming to a new school in Mean Girls was far more realistic, where a lot of the students didn't give her the time of day. In the movie, at least, Bella was accepted immediately by the school community, gaining instant popularity among both girls and guys. I felt like her two guy friends (who, if I recall, were both crushing on her in the film) were being treated unfairly by Bella, who only had eyes for Edward. A counter-example would be Buffy's treatment of Xander when she was head over heals for Angel, and Xander had his crush on her. She didn't blow Xander off, and she didn't step on his feelings (at least, not intentionally). I felt like Buffy juggled friends, school, romance and slaying expertly, and if she did ignore one, it was more often her duties as slayer or student, which makes sense because teenagers generally aren't fond of academic (or destiny related) responsibilities. I felt that (in the movie at least), Bella treated her supposed friends horribly, and reading your article just makes me feel more justified in thinking that.

moo000 I compleatly agree with you. In real life there are not that many girls who would instantly befriend the 'new girl' like that. People may say 'but all the boys were taking interest in Bella because she was new.' There is a difference with the boys because as Cinders said above, they were all crushing on her. I liked Jessica in the books, but the actor in the movie annoyed me.. I think it was her voice...

HerMelody I think a lot of the people who dislike Jessica got their opinion from Midnight Sun. Edward can hear Jessica's thoughts in Midnight Sun, during the first half of Twilight. Jessica's thoughts about Bella were not nice, they were cruel and two-faced. I'm sure some people liked her until they read Edward's point of view on Stephenie's site and found out what Jessica was really thinking...

renrae See my article on Lauren forf info about the thoughts thing. It puts into perspective why they were being "rude".

sapherequeen I agree with everything you said. I can honestly conclude that a lot of the Twilight fans start to hate any character that disrespects Edward, Bella, or any popular character in the Twilight series or somewhat complicates Bella's and Edward's relationship. It's completely ridiculous...

anna0789 when i read the twilight saga i also didn't really get why everybody hated so much Jessica just because Bella didn't like her i mean jessica was really just a normal teenager with good cualities and with flaws i totally agree with you i mean "too hyper" cmon alice is like 10 times more hyper than jessica ( i love alice character :D) i think that maybe because it is written in bella perspective and bella doesn't like jessica well maybe some readers like start to hate jessica without really giving it a second thought

Ultimately57 Personally, I think Meyer just put rude thoughts from Jessica in Midnight Sun because people were realizing how kind she was actually being.

Twilight Jokes

posted by KateKicksAss

I found these online, and thought they were kinda funny, :)
Credit: wiki answers, wattpad.com, b l o g s p o t.com

How many Twilighters does it take to screw on a light bulb?
I don't know, they're all too busy fighting over who gets to be Mrs Cullen

What happened when Emmett Cullen stubbed his toe?
He made the whole city collapse!

Rosalie Hale was told to find something just as o más beautiful then herself. She came back with a mirror!

How do tu stop Jacob Black from attacking you?
You pick up a stick, throw it and yell "fetch"!

How do tu irritate Edward Cullen?
Buy him a dog and call it Jacob!

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Twilight Saga- Take it off

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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Review: Rotten Tomatoes mostrar

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Twilight vs Dead Until Dark

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The Twilight Saga: The Plot Holes That Never Were

posted by cassie-1-2-3

I’ve read many lists pointing out Twilight “Plot Holes”, but más often than not, the lists aren’t very valid at all. Half of them are usually just complaints, pointing out something they don’t like about Twilight (Example:” Why would vampiros go to high school?”, o “Why does Bella have so many friends?”). The rest are just factually incorrect, o can be logically theorized. These are usually followed por “Stephenie Meyer obviously ditched history class”, o “Hasn’t Stephenie ever heard of logic?”, o my personal favorite, “I would know, I had a lesson about it...

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Hitler Was Not Dazzled por Breaking Dawn

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Contains strong language. It's not an anti video if tu don't mind the lulz.

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The Real Reason Bella "Couldn't" Get Over Edward

posted by nuxi

aagh! I accidentally deleted this when I was trying to editar it. here it is again with a new title:

Bella could have gotten over Edward in New Moon and even had a real relationship with Jacob in time, but she wouldn't let herself. She felt that moving on would diminish o discredit her twu wuv with Edward and the pain she felt after he left. She wants to believe she can't get over it because she wants to believe that what they had was extraordinary, not like any other teenage romance. She wants to believe no one else in the world can relate to what she's going through. She was alone because she...

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12 Ways to Annoy Crazed Obsessive Twilight Fangirls

posted by sapherequeen

*Most I made up, a few I admit I saw on a video but I stated these ways in my own words so it is therefore not plagiarism*

1) Tell a fangirl that you'll send her a T-shirt with rare pictures of Edward Cullen on the front and back in two days, make sure she gets extremely excited. When the two days go by, send her a T-shirt with pics of Hagrid from Harry Potter instead.
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2) Tell the fangirls that all gay men sparkle.
3) Tell the fangirls that the Quielete hombres lobo have major anger management issues if they turn into beasts when they got irritable...
4) Ask them for their Twilight merchandise,...

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Why we Antis amor our Pro spot members

posted by Mermaid-Tail

I think this spot and the majority of it's members have worked to ensure that when we talk about things we dislike about the series it's things we feel strongly about o have an actual point to make, not just mindless hating and that when we poke fun we try to keep an eye on the line between fun mockery and plain rudeness, even though that line can be debatable o hard to see. Still, there are some cases when I can see fans feeling left out, singled out o wanting out completely, and I don't like that. Part of the problem is something us antis can't really help with, which is that not many...

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Rose Hathaway and Dimitri Belikov kills the cullens

posted by vampiressJazz

i had nothing to do absolutely nothing to do. As i was so bored i began drawing through one of Dimitri's favorito! cowboy novels i had a feeling this would annoy him. suddenly i felt someone looming above me i turned around, it was Dimitri just as i thought he was going to be annoyed with me for sure.
"What are tu doing Roza?" he asked
I grinned. he picked up the novel that i was drawing in i hope he didn't see it.
"Ah one of favorito! books." he opened the book and saw my lovely work of art. He frowned at me.
"Busted." i laughed nervously
"Rose why are tu destroying my books?" he asked sternly...

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Bella cisne as a heroine should be illegal

posted by bendaimmortal

I'm just sayin' Bella is one of the worst role modelos ever when it comes to love, sex and life choices and should not have allowed to be published in any shape o form. I mean, when she's made the heroine of the story and marketted at teenage girls.

1. She's obsessively in amor with a control freak stalker.

Unfortunately it seems the vast majority of the Twilight fangirls are too with the very same freak.

2. She wants him so bad that she'll abandone everyone else she loves so that she could be with him. Even when it means she'll practically have to become a blood-drinking corpse.

(The movie 'Eclipse'...

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Twilight Vs. Harry Potter: A Breakdown

posted by shieldmaiden

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I felt a compelling need to write this articulo because recently I have found myself más constantly thrust into situations and debates where I have to defend the Harry Potter fandom against the Twilight fandom, which I despise so much. My best friend and her family are actually major pro-Twilight fans. This past evening made me realize that there are so many reasons why Harry Potter is much más awesome than Twilight, and its not just the obvious ones either. Thus, I give tu all the evidence tu will ever need to successfully pwn a Twilight fan trying to bring your fandom down.

Obvious Reasons...

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Are the accusations of Meyer 'stealing' plot ideas fair?

posted by Mermaid-Tail

OMG she totally estola that manzana, apple from Adam and Eve!!!

OMG she totally stole that apple from Adam and Eve!!!

The people on this spot who know me will be aware I'm an anti, but I think a part of using this spot fairly means me not only talking when I have something against Twilight, but also fessing up when I don't think Meyer/the books/actros/etc are in the wrong. I've heard a lot about how many of Meyer's plot points are too similar to those in other vampire/fantasy stories. Well, that's never the way it's put. It's usually closer to "she totally ripped off _____. That's a stolen idea!" and I wanted to talk about why I actually disagree with most of those accusations. I say 'most of' and not 'all...

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Rob respuestas the pregunta 'Who is better for Bella?'

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1:57-2:44 Have I dicho how much I amor this man?

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