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Science Fiction owes a debt of gratitude to the BBC, for both Douglas Adams and Doctor Who. Here’s a special tribute: Who Girls
The world’s greatest graphic novel is being made into a movie, and I’m excited. If for nothing but the attention to [...]
The first installment in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Saga follows an misleadingly simple plot. Girl, daughter of divorced parents, goes to live with father in small Northwestern town. In trying to fit in in the ridiculously small high school, girl unwittingly falls for gorgeous, reclusive boy. Relationship develops, girl gets into trouble, boy saves girl. Simple, yes? Don’t let the plot’s simplicity fool you. The complication, in this book as in a great number literary works, comes from the nature of the work. Isabella Swan (Bella to her friends), is the ‘girl’ in this story, as well as being narrator, protagonist, and self-described as exceptionally plain. The boy she falls in love with is named Edward Cullen, member of the wealthiest and most reclusive family that inhabits the small town Bella moves to.
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.”
C. S. Lewis
