Twilight is unlike any other story I have ever read before. It carries a level of intrigue and romance that I’ve never been interested in. Therefore, connecting this piece of the literature to something else is more than a challenge. I had to dig deep, trace the lines to long-forgotten memories from my early days of reading novels from my high school library until I found a title, one that both repulsed me and intrigued me, much like Twilight. I speak of Alice Sebold’s the Lovely Bones.
The Lovely Bones follows the tale of Susie Salmon, a young girl who is murdered by her neighbor and watches her friends and family from her own personal Heaven. Some aspects of the book, such as the Susie’s fixation on her middle school crush towards the end of the title, were uncomfortable for myself to read, much like some of the romance scenes between Bella and Edward. However, the concept of the Lovely Bones and the narration of Susie as she and those she left behind learn to let each other go captivated me.
In the same way I approached the story of the Lovely Bones, I again approached the story of Twilight. I engaged and accepted some aspects and pulled away from others.
Monstrous Poetry 