Michelle Pan - Bella Should Have Dumped Edward. Controversial Views on the Twilight Series

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This book would not have been possible without the help of Ulysses Press. Thank you for giving me this fantastic opportunity!

Thanks to Stephenie Meyer for creating the wonderful world of Twilight and the story of Bella and Edward. Without you, none of this would be reality. Thank you for changing my life!

Thanks to all of the fans who submitted entries for this book, including Alejandra Marin, Alex Embleton, Alison Ng (LostinBelieving), Andrea Daembkes, Anthoula Tasioudi, Bristol Galbraith, Cynthia Serna, Dawn Atchley, Dayi Martinez, Deidre Frost, Elisabeth DeCrane, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Emily Bryan, Hannah Severns, Haylee Voda, Kristine Velasquez, Morgan Moore, Morgan Schutterle, Nicole Hobday, Paige Davis, Rachel Hahn, Rachel Leff, Rachel LeSage, Roni Hughes, Savannah Sanford, Shannon Angelo, Shelley Morris, Taylor Gleason, and Tine Kempenaers. Your passionate debates are what keep the fandom and BellaAndEdward.com alive.

Thanks to all of the BAE staff members and forum staff for always keeping the site updated, especially during the three months of craziness when I was writing. And thanks to Robin for helping me come up with the lovely questions featured in this book.

Last, but certainly not least, thanks to my friends and family for their support and enthusiasm. I couldnt have done it without you guys!

Meyer, Stephenie. Twilight. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005.

Meyer, Stephenie. New Moon. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2006.

Meyer, Stephenie. Eclipse. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2007.

Meyer, Stephenie. Breaking Dawn. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

I fell into the world of Twilight during the middle of 2006. It was the summer between my seventh and eighth grade years, and just like every other summer, I had a reading assignment to do. Entranced by its mysterious cover, I decided that Twilight was going to be the book for my assignment that year. Little did I know that book with the apple on the cover would change my life forever. A couple months after finishing the novel, I started my own Twilight fan website, BellaAndEdward .com, and since then it has grown to be one of the largest and longest-lasting Twilight fansites on the web.

My journey with Bella Should Have Dumped Edward began in the fall of 2009, three years after I was first introduced to the world of Bella, Edward, and Jacob. I was approached by Ulysses Press and asked to write a Twilight debate book similar to Mugglenet.coms Harry Potter Should Have Died, which they had published a couple months before. Naturally I took on the job without a second thought, only to realize later that I already had an insane workload to deal with. The next couple of months were hectic as I tried to balance school, band, and Bella AndEdward.com on top of writing a book. Trust me, it wasnt an easy task! But thanks to the fans who submitted their wonderful responses to many controversial Twilight questions, I was able to get some great ideas and persevere with my writing.

Speaking of fan input, let me tell you a little about how this book is organized. It all started with 30 of the BellaAndEdward.com staff members burning questions about the Twilight saga. Should Jacob have imprinted on Renesmee? Should Breaking Dawn have ended with a fight? Should Summit Entertainment have replaced Rachelle Lefevre? All of these questions and more can be found in the pages of this book. I then asked for fan input on the topics, and thats when we really got the ball rolling. I was thrilled to see that fans of all ages and from all over the world were eager to participate in this project. As fans sent in their responses (some passionately defending their arguments), I quickly categorized them under the appropriate questions and proceeded to write my portion of the book. At the end of each chapter, you will find The Final Call, my own opinion on the matter. While it isnt really a call and certainly not final, it does make me feel quite a bit more important! My thoughts on the question proposed sometimes adhere to the fans opinions and other times dont. But either way, the fan responses are just as crucial to the book as my opinions are (if not more so). After all, this is a book about Controversial Views on the Twilight Series; if I had written the book by myself, there would only be one view and it would make quite a boring read. So my point is, I couldnt have done this without the fans. You guys made this book possible. Thank you for being such dedicated Twilighters!

After three months of hard work, here is my finished product: Bella Should Have Dumped Edward: Controversial Views & Debates on the Twilight Series. I do hope you enjoy this compilation of fan opinions from all around the world and share it with other Twi-hards you may know. Who knows? Maybe youll get into a heated debate over whether Bella should have picked Edward or Jacob.

Oh, and for the record, Bella definitely should not have dumped Edward.

If I could be any Twilight saga character, I admit that I would love to be Bella. I know, so clich, right? But even though she goes through all this hard stuff when she comes to live in Forks with Charlie, she finds love. And not just her one true loveshe also finds a best friend. She has everything that I will ever want out of life. Shes so lucky. I know a lot of people who just think the series is all so cheesy and poorly written, but I dont know how they cant see what Bella goes through as something exciting and amazing, even if her life is threatened on more than one occasion. If I could be anyone, it would be her. Id have Edward all to myself and Jake as a BFF. And even though one is a vampire and one is a werewolf, having people with personalities like theirs love you makes it seem impossible that life could get any better.

Like any girl who loves the series, I would love to be Bella. Bellas life is not only exciting and intriguing, it is her own special world. Some people go through life with someone who never loves them a fraction as much as Edward loves Bella. Edward is unselfish, considerate, humorous, and a complete gentleman, among many other things. Although in New Moon it may seem like he is selfish in leaving her, he does it to protect her, though he is wrong, as he admits, and he apologizes for it. Bellas friend Jacob is beyond supportive. Although he hurts for almost all of the series because he loves her and she loves Edward, he is always there for her, as well. Like Edward, Jacob avoids Bella when he turns into a wolf because he doesnt want to hurt her. That shows how much she is loved. Not only would I want to be Bella because of how loved she is and how romantic her relationship with Edward is, but because she is a modest, genuine girl. She is not materialistic in the slightest and is an example to everybody who reads the series. She has a big heart and puts others before herself, even to the point of putting herself in danger. If life as a vampire with Edward were at stake, she would turn into a vampire in a heartbeat.