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she simply can not exist without a supposed strong and domineering man in her life. What’s most baffling here is that those that aren’t mythical creatures – Bella’s classmates, for instance – regard her as beautiful, strong, brilliant, and mysterious. She is none of those things, and what’s horrifying is that young girls might see her as a role model, when she is anything but. Her relationships with all the men in her life are unhealthy.
I am so glad that I'm not the only one who thinks that. I think Meyer created a very dangerous character in Bella Swan with her obsession with Edward Cullen. Nothing about their relationship is healthy and its nothing that the age group that this book was written for should want to have in their lives. They both disregard that advice from their elders, they put themselves and their loved ones in constant danger. None of the relationships Bella has with a man or a boy is healthy. Not Edward, Jacob, her father, her step father, Emmett, none of them.
I try not to compare books to one another, but when I read books with such thought out and well developed characters I can't help but cringe at Meyer's characters. The most thought out and developed character is Carlisle Cullen. And this isn't his story.
I think she got caught up in the romanticism of this story without thinking through the characters and really the story. I mean when its adults I can't really say anything because its adults, but Bella is a 17 year old girl and a lot of girls are putting themselves in the very dangerous shoes of Bella Swan.
And New Moon puts all of that on the big screen in a dragging slow 2 hour pace that frankly left me wanting my money back.