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Why have some people felt offended por Breaking Dawn?

I came across link and the poster answered a pergunta asking if she was offended por Breaking Dawn.
The blog also states that many people sent Meyer letters about their negative feelings about the book.


Is it because of Bella's pregnancy? They don't believe that vampiros should reproduce?
If that's the case, how it that an offensive thing to read?

 cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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November99 said:
Meyer said her vampiros can't reproduce, and then Bella gets pregnant and it's Eddy's fault.

Renesmee is just perfect. She has the intelligence of a 17 ano old in a matter of days, she's pretty, and Jacob falls in amor the moment he sees her.

Jacob had a complete character change. He goes from in amor with Bella to "oh, never mind, I was in amor with Renesmee all along!". Also, it's considered paedophilia and child grooming for a 17 ano old to be in amor with and/or promised to a 6 mês old. (because that's what imprinting basically is)

Epic battle... that never happened. I'm OK with her premise, that violence isn't always the answer, but all that build up to the Volturi saying "awwww, she's adorable! We were wrong!" (which is mais proof of Renesmee's Mary Sueness.

That's all I can think of at the moment.

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posted over a year ago 
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Exactly! I don't think I could have said it better.
bri-marie posted over a year ago
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Well, this is pretty much the same thing I would say. *Clicks best answer*
tellymaster posted over a year ago
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Okay. It completely slipped my mind that the Jacob thing would offend some.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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i-am-mariella said:
I had managed to read most of the Twilight books before, silly as I found them (well, you know my opinions on them) because I told my friend I would, and I just decided I would give them a chance.
However, I couldn't finish Breaking Dawn. I felt physically sick. Imprinting is where they will be a mentor figure to the child until they feel the child is mature enough to enter a sexual relationship. The fact these children who are imprinted on have no choice in the matter of who they are together with, also relates to feminism. These boys or girls might not reciprocate the feelings but feel they have to because it's nature. Smeyer says there is no pergunta of the feelings not being reciprocated, because of the devotion. So they have been told from a really young age how in amor and devoted the imprinter is to them. They will grow up thinking this is the norm, and that they owe them a sexual relationship because of this. If they choose not to, they will feel guilty, because the adult gave up other relationships when it isn't the child's fault at all.
Then there's the fact that they're CHILDREN. It's child grooming. It's disgusting. They will grow up with this guardian or father/big brother figure. It's an authority figure who has been in their life since they were born, so clearly they trust them. This is common in cases of child grooming.
I have experience with this sort of thing and it is so raw and awful. Teenage girls read this and enjoy it, and amor the character. Why is she promoting this? Why is she letting them believe this? Ugh, I feel sick.
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posted over a year ago 
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Jacob was the first to imprint on a child.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Actually Quil was the first to imprint on a child (2 ano old Claire) Jacob was the first to imprint on an infant.
lasalle28 posted over a year ago
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You said exactly what I think, honey.
SickMuse posted over a year ago
lasalle28 said:
Since they took most of what I was going to say, instead I'll say that Bella increased her Sue-ness por 9000!!!1!!1 when she became a vampire. She got everything she ever wanted on a silver prato, travessa with no real, long lasting struggle. She got beauty, immortality, eternal youth, a "hot" husband, a super special demonspa- er "baby" that grew up in a matter of weeks, she gets to have "super awesome" vampire sex 24/7, a loving family of rich, beautiful vampires, Jacob, and endless wealth. And the final slap to the face was all the evil vampiros who totally came with their x-men like powers, who would have given us an awesome fight...just pretty much bowed down to God Mode Sue!Bella and her mary sue baby and left without a fuss after Bella used her "mind shield" powers. And the book ends in "I now I finally have my perfect, little piece of forever."

And on the side note, my favorito character, Leah, was given no happiness of her own and was only given pity from God Mode!Bella. T-T
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I can see why someone would dislike those aspects, but I still don't see how that's offensive.
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Because she was whiny and bitchy throughout all four books. She never gained any character development. She was shallow, vain, cynical, bitchy, judgmental, selfish, faker than plastic breasts when it comes to trying to act selfless, and she treated everyone who wasn't the Cullens, Edward, or herself with contempt, including her own father and her "shallow, human friends." Yet, she was still treated as a kind, selfless girl and better, mais special, mais unique, and kinder than any human girl in the world, in real life or fantasia por the characters in the story. She retained all of those horrible personality traits and yet she receives everything she ever wanted on a golden platter. She never struggled for it, she never gained character development, she never experienced any losses that she cared about, and there wasn't even an epic fight in breaking dawn. She had the same crappy personality she came in with after she was turned. With all of the bad messages and themes from Smeyer's books, this one basically said "Acting bitchy, abandoning your friends and family, treating everyone that don't meet up to your standards of beauty and/or perfection with utter contempt, and changing your species for a guy you've only known for a ano or two will gain you money, wealth, and a gorgeous family without ever working for it."
lasalle28 posted over a year ago
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Bravo lasalle! So so true!
Ms_Mea posted over a year ago
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Omg thats sooo true !!
g4eva posted over a year ago
bri-marie said:
Different people find different things offensive. I thought (besides what November said) that Smeyer made Edward bruising Bella's body seem sexy, offensive. I thought the fact that there was hardly any "lets talk this out" between Edward and Bella about the baby offensive. The fact that Smeyer built up tension and promised a huge battle only to go, "Nope! Sorry! Changed my mind!"

As a writer, I thought Smeyer having all the "cheats" in her story to 1)try and please her fãs and 2)give her characters a happy ending offensive.
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posted over a year ago 
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This. The sex scene (if there had been one) was disturbing at the least, the aftermath even mais so.
November99 posted over a year ago
Milena96 said:
Actually, Breaking Dawn offended me from the whole saga. stephenie has just overdrove with bellas pregnancy. totally stupid, por my opinion :S

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What did you find stupid about her pregnancy?
cassie-1-2-3 posted over a year ago
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Bella's pregnancy is stupid because Meyer came up with an incredibly weak explanation (which was inconsistant with what she had written previously) in a desperate attempt to have the "happily ever after, nothing could be better" ending. Also, nothing but crap came out of Renesmee's birth. I'm sorry, but I don't really like Renesmee, just because of how she was written. Bella gave birth to a seventeenyear-old girlfriend for Jacob with super powers. Nothing more.
New_Moon_Master posted over a year ago
rachaelwsz said:
I wouldn't use the word 'offended' to describe what I feel for Breaking Dawn. The correct word for me would be 'disgusted'.

-Jacob imprints on Nessie and Meyer uses this as an excuse for why Jacob used to have feelings for Bella, which I think is really disgusting and absurd.

-Breaking Dawn is the thickest book of all four and nothing really goes on in the book. We have marriage>honeymoon>OMG!BABY!>Angst(x10)>Baby is born>OMG!VOLTURI!>Preparation for battle that never came>Battle never came.

It's a letdown for the last book in the series. A lot of fãs were expecting something mais than just that. Breaking Dawn is like a bad case of icky fã fiction.

-And that infamous line:

Goodbye, Jacob. My brother, my son...

xoxo Edward Cullen

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These are the three that I can come up with right now. May add mais later.

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posted over a year ago 
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Oh that line...
HecateA posted over a year ago
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The "my son" line was something beyond good and bad...
maryksand posted over a year ago
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Ugh.....This is what I mean about characters being totally inconsistant. Like Edward (or any person in that sistuation for that matter) would say that.
New_Moon_Master posted over a year ago
New_Moon_Master said:
I think that Stephanie Meyer got so caught up in her happily-ever-after that she threw away all the rules of writing.
The other three books were great with the consistancy of the characters and everything, and then suddenly in Breaking Dawn, "Belly can get pregnant! She was impregnanted by...venom! Yeah, that's it, venom!" and after months of Jacob saying how he hated the "thing" and how they should just kill it, and TRYING to kill it, then he has some wolfy claim, and he is a totally different person, and now he and Bella can just be friends.
After about half the book of building up to the big fight scene, "Oh no, we're the Volturi, but we're sorry, we have seen the error of our ways! We will leave you in peace instead of just killing all of you and the witnesses."
In all: the book was all over the place, completely different than the rest of the plot, the characters changed to suit the hole-filled plot, and it was completely unrealistic in every way.
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SickMuse said:
The only thing I think right now is that I got to page 80, and then it made me want to vomit. I didn't finish to read the book, it was too awful for me. I don't know if I'm wrong, but I always thought that Stephenie Meyer has a very cute composição literária style (only in the first book) with the one she makes you cannot stop reading, and despite of how boring the story may be (hehe that was what happened to me :P). But with that same style she can write a lot of better things... I'm just saying that the woman must have some talent there, right? I don't think she's useless at all...

And I didn't read the whole book, so I can't give a good answer.
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