Apparently in the ALA’s Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2009, Twilight had been listed as offensive due to its sexual nature and swearing in its coming new books. I wonder what the author, Stephanie Meyer, has to say about this. I don’t know how many people thinks Twilight is offensive or have problems with the Twilight inappropriate to young readers but I think that children these days are growing faster and faster. Not only do they start to date and wear makeup in a younger age, they are also beginning to think and be part of the more mature world too.
It was reported that there are many complaints from school principles and librarians about the book, but I think it is the uniqueness that makes a book good and interesting. I mean, you don’t want to read about the same plot about a girl meeting a talking rabbit or saving the world from an evil source, would you? So with these new changes, it seems like sex and swearing is what novels are heading too… but wait a minute, do you see any bias here? For many years already, tons of young adult novels already had swearing in them, including sex and drug use. Now why is Twilight suddenly being targeted as the main culprit?
Twilight is just the same as other book except it has found a great pair of combination to make it a success and a distinct difference to all other books – vampires, sex, and lust. So do you still think Twilight is offensive? I think the only offensive thing, if any, is the link between vampire and sex. Plus with the upcoming graphic novel comic of Twilight, if readers can now see what they read, I wonder what more controversies would this lead up to.
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