Friday, December 12, 2008
Twilight Saga Covers
~<>~ The BOOK COVERS of the Twilight Saga books, really have different meanings, though some of them are really not by Stephanie, and so some of them really contain no meaning at all. OH, I know its hard to understand, but be reminded that its not that easy to explain...
=+= First of all the books is "TWILIGHT". As you can see the cover of Twilight is a hand that holds an apple. The apple on the cover of Twilight represents "forbidden fruit." Stephenie used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because she loved the phrase "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil." Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death... Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started. Apples are quite the versatile fruit. In the end, Stephenie loved the beautiful simplicity of the picture.
=+= The second book is "New Moon". The flower is a ruffled tulip. The apple cover has a lot of meaning to Stephenie, but she did not pick the New Moon cover. Something to keep in mind if you intend to embark on a career as a writer: lots of things you might expect to be under your control are not. Covers, for example. Those are mostly up to the publisher and the marketing and sales departments. What the tulip means is unknown
This is stated at the Twilight FAQ:
"That is a ruffled tulip. As for the meaning... If you've read the Twilight FAQ, you know that the apple cover had a lot of meaning for me, and I was an active part of the covering process. However, that experience is more the exception than the rule in the publishing world. Something to keep in mind if you intend to embark on a career as a writer: lots of things you might expect to be under your control are not. Covers, for example. Those are mostly up to the publisher and the marketing and sales departments. So I don't know what the tulip means—I didn't have anything to do with this one."
=+= The third book is "ECLIPSE." The cover of the Eclipse [I mean the ribbon cut] was also chosen by the publishers instead of Stephenie Meyer herself. So the definite meaning is unknown, but I personally think that the torn ribbon represents how Bella is torn between Jacob and Edward, just a thought.
=+= And the 4th book would be "Breaking Dawn". The cover of the Breaking Dawn represents a pawn and a queen, both at a chessboard, means sumthing. The red pawn indicates the ~OLD~ Bella, weak, fragile, human, and the red color means filled with blood. The white queen means the ~NEW~ Bella; strong, hard, marble-like, and pale. In short the pawn resembles Bella being the weakest character or player in the story and ends up being the queen or the strongest player in the book.
~<>~ I got these details from different sources of info… ^_^
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