READING ON VAMPIRES

 

 

STEPHENIE MEYER AND THE TWILIGHT SERIES

 

On the night from 1st June to 2nd June, 2003, Stephenie Meyer had a very speial dream about two people who were in love: a girl and a beautiful vampire.

Stephenie became obsessed with this dream, and inspired by it, she wrote the novel Twilight.

In this novel, she named the girl Bella Swan, and gave her vampire lover the name of Edward Cullen. Stephenie published the novel in 2005, and shortly after its publication, it became a bestseller and a favourite among young readers around the world.

In the following years, Twilight became a cultural phenomenon. The novel received praises from many prestigious publications such as The New York Times and Publisher’s Weekly. Encouraged by this tremendous success, Stephenie wrote three sequels to the novel: New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn. In 2008, Catherine Hardwicke directed a movie about the first novel in the series. Right now, Stephenie is working on the fifth novel in the series, titled Midnight Sun.

Twilight is by no means the first example of a vampire story. These blood-sucking creatures appear in the folklore of many cultures, and are present in novels such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, classic movies such as F.W.Murnau’s Nosferatu, and TV series such as Buffy, the Vampire Slayer. One thing which all these works have in common is their success: audiences are fascinated by these creatures of the night. So if you like vampires, pick up a book and some garlic at the bookshop and start reading!

 

·         Underline all verbs in past tense.

Answer the following questions from the text:

·         What inspired Stephenie Meyer to write her novel Twilight?

·         What are the names of the two main characters in the novel?

·         How many novels are there in the Twlight series and what are their titles?

·         Is Stephenie Meyer’s novel the first vampire story?

If you want to know more about this author you can have a look to her official webpage