analysis Oreo Reads Twilight and Analyze it for Red Flags

[King Oreo He/him]

Welcome! Here I will be looking into the world of twilight and looking at the red, orange, and green flags in the book! I will be spoiler tagging everything so it's safe for new readers 

My goal is to read the book then compare it with the movie and see how it changes aswell

Let's begin 

Chapter One-three

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Orange flags: Edward stares at Bella for the entirety of the lunch break. Next he goes as far away from Bella in their biology class.

 

Red flags: Then in Chapter three Edward blames Bella for his behavior 

I might get bored and draw some art too

Edited April 1, 2024 by King Oreo

[King Oreo He/him]

Twilight chapter 3

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Well done Edward. Straight from the abusive boyfriend's handbook 

 

[Cash67]

The only acceptable way to read Twilight

[Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him]

Honestly. If I ever read Twilight, this is how I'll do it.

[AonEne he/him]

On 4/3/2024 at 7:02 AM, Cash67 said:

The only acceptable way to read Twilight

Not to derail Oreo's thread but hard disagree, I very much like Twilight. (It does have red flags, but it has good stuff too.) 

[Cash67]

3 hours ago, AonEne said:

Not to derail Oreo's thread but hard disagree, I very much like Twilight. (It does have red flags, but it has good stuff too.) 

Agreed. Won’t stop me from making fun of it like I would a Hallmark movie. 

[AonEne he/him]

31 minutes ago, Cash67 said:

Agreed. Won’t stop me from making fun of it like I would a Hallmark movie. 

For sure, I just don't want to say there's one right way to read a book. 

[King Oreo He/him]

Twilight chapter four

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Oh boy where do we start...

Basically Bella nearly gets run over by another student. Edward runs over to protect Bella and destroys the car. 

He then goes on to blame Bella and convince her that she saw nothing via gaslighting

Say it with me now

Red flags!

Chapter 5-6

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Wow... Edward forcing himself upon Bella and convincing her that she can't even drive herself home because she had a panic attack about blood. 

 

4 hours ago, AonEne said:

For sure, I just don't want to say there's one right way to read a book. 

I'm really enjoying this book! It's not my first read through but I'm enjoying it a lot more with seeing the hints from book one that leads up to book four

 

[AonEne he/him]

58 minutes ago, King Oreo said:

Twilight chapter four

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Oh boy where do we start...

Basically Bella nearly gets run over by another student. Edward runs over to protect Bella and destroys the car. 

He then goes on to blame Bella and convince her that she saw nothing via gaslighting

Say it with me now

Red flags!

 

Are you up for discussion or just wanting to post your thoughts?  Because I do actually think there's an argument to be made that the gaslighting in this instance is justifiable (debatable, but an argument). 

[King Oreo He/him]

1 minute ago, AonEne said:

Are you up for discussion or just wanting to post your thoughts?  Because I do actually think there's an argument to be made that the gaslighting in this instance is justifiable (debatable, but an argument). 

Open for discussion! Share the thoughts!

[AonEne he/him]

3 hours ago, King Oreo said:

Open for discussion! Share the thoughts!

Alright so - basically my thought is that, with the intent of keeping vampires secret, lying and gaslighting is understandable, if still not nice to be on the other side of. Better to save her life, and then try to save it again by not [New Moon spoilers] 

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putting her potentially in the line of fire of the Volturi, 

than to risk it, I think is the thought process - the motivation makes a difference to me, where if he'd been gaslighting her about something just for kicks and giggles or to feel powerful, that's textbook abuse. Or like, from a perceived danger that he can't be sure about (like driving, where she might have been fine to drive), that's getting overprotective and can definitely be a red flag. I don't think this gaslighting is a green flag, but I do think in context, it's arguably not abusive, as it's done for a legitimate reason. [later Twilight] 

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(If one that didn't pan out, because she was not convinced, only got more suspicious, and figured it out anyway lol.) 

 

[King Oreo He/him]

1 minute ago, AonEne said:

Alright so - basically my thought is that, with the intent of keeping vampires secret, lying and gaslighting is understandable, if still not nice to be on the other side of. Better to save her life, and then try to save it again by not [New Moon spoilers] 

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putting her potentially in the line of fire of the Volturi, 

 

Hadn't thought about it that way! 

3 minutes ago, AonEne said:

 that's getting overprotective and can definitely be a red flag. I don't think this gaslighting is a green flag, but I do think in context, it's arguably not abusive, as it's done for a legitimate reason. 

 Given the context I agree, hadn't thought about it like that before but it makes a lot more sense from that view! I'll make sure to keep the volturi in mind for the later analysis. 

[AonEne he/him]

To be clear, I don't think her life being genuinely in danger excuses all possible behavior! But I think it does account for a good chunk of it. 

You're also making me want to reread now XD