Twilight | Themes
Meyer artfully interweaves several related themes throughout her novel: alienation, desire, community, and risk/threat.
Alienation
Before she even meets her first vampire, and long before she falls in love with Edward, Bella is the quintessential alienated teenage girl. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she splits her time between two very different locations: small town/big city, green and wet/brown and dry, etc. Bella does not really fit in anywhere. Since her mother has gotten involved with a younger man, one who is a professional baseball...
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