READING GROUP PRAISE FOR THE ABOUT THE GUIDE TWILIGHT SAGA AUTHOR “Move over, Harry Potter.” — USA Today “ Has a hypnotic quality that puts the reader right inside the dense, rainy thickets of [Forks].” Photo © David Stone — People Stephenie Meyer graduated from Brigham Young University with a degree in English “ The legions of readers who are Literature, and she lives with her husband and three young sons in Arizona. Stephenie hooked on the romantic struggles of wrote Twilight in just three months! Bella and the vampire Edward will ecstatically devour this.” — Publishers Weekly Breaking Dawn HC ISBN: 978-0-316-06792-8 “ [Stephenie Meyer is] the world’s To be irrevocably in most popular vampire novelist love with a vampire is both fantasy and since Anne Rice.” nightmare woven into a — Entertainment Weekly dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. “ Meyer’s [series] seethes with the Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen and in another by her archetypal tumult of star-crossed profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, passions, in which the supernatural a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and element serves as a heady spice.” strife have led her to the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice to either join the dark — New York Times but seductive world of immortals or to pursue The final book in the a fully human life has become the thread from which the fates of two tribes hang. #1 bestselling Twilight Saga will take your breath away. Also Available: Twilight HC ISBN: 978-0-316-16017-9 PB ISBN: 978-0-316-01584-4 New Moon HC ISBN: 978-0-316-16019-3 Discussion questions written in part by Katy Coyle. PB ISBN: 978-0-316-02496-9 Eclipse HC ISBN: 978-0-316-16020-9 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Breaking Dawn contained many 5. When Alice and Jasper 9. Renesmee’s talent allows her more twists and turns than the disappeared, what were your initial to communicate in a very unique way. previous titles in The Twilight Saga. thoughts? Did you believe that they Breaking Dawn presents innocent Which of the plot lines did you were gone forever? What were some uses of her talent, however do you predict? Was there foreshadowing other possibilities for them going think her talent will mature as she that led you to your prediction? away? Would it have been possible for does? For example, do you think she Where? What was the most surprising them to stay with the family and still could someday be able to manipulate moment for you? protect them? How—and what impact images to show people what she could that have had on the ending? wants them to see? How could this 2. The anticipation was high for give the Cullens an advantage if the the last installment—what did you 6. Bella as a newborn vampire Volturi were to reappear? think would happen that didn’t? Could has changed in many ways. She has it have fit into the story? How? And become nimble and confident, and 10. Stephenie Meyer has noted would it have changed the outcome? also shows a level of self-control that that each of the novels in The Twilight is surprising to the Cullens. Do these Saga pays homage to other literary 3. As Jacob tries to explain Bella’s changes seem natural? Did you find classics. For Breaking Dawn, she has situation to Charlie, Charlie cuts him yourself getting reacquainted with said Shakespeare’s A Midsummer off, asking just to know if she’s OK. Bella—and do you think she was Night’s Dream and The Merchant Based on how much Jacob let slip, do doing the same with herself? of Venice were the key inspirations. you think Charlie knows the truth? If In what ways do you think Breaking not, what other conclusions could he 7. The scene in the meadow Dawn’s structure and key plot points have come to about the Cullens, Bella, looked to be headed toward a fight- draw inspiration from A Midsummer Jacob, and his La Push friends? to-the-finish war between the Cullens Night’s Dream? In what ways do these and the Volturi. What did the Cullens elements differ? The Merchant of 4. Throughout the series, the do right to peacefully resolve the Venice, according to Shakespearean vampires have displayed a wide situation? What strategic mistakes did scholars is a “problem play”— variety of special talents. However, the Volturi make that ultimately led to setting out to explore specific moral until Renesmee’s arrival, we never saw an ending not of their choosing? dilemmas and current social problems talents passed from one generation through the central characters. Can to the next. If Alice and Jasper were 8. Since New Moon, we have all you identify characters beyond Bella able to have a child, what might their believed that Jacob and others in and Edward that struggled with moral baby’s special talent be? How about the Quiletes tribe were werewolves. dilemmas in Breaking Dawn? What Esmee and Carlisle? Rosalie and However, in the field Edward refers characters set the stage for social Emmett? to them as shape-shifters. Why did parallels that we see today? Edward use that term? What are the main differences between werewolves and shape-shifters? Why is this distinction important? 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