this whole adult vs. teenager thing is sort of irrelevant, particularly when you consider the vast number of adults out there who don’t know what love is or how to love someone else. i think the ever-increasing divorce, violence, and child abandonment rates should be some indication of this. besides, there are a lot of teenagers out there who have better heads on their shoulders than some of the adults i know just regarding life in general. those “kids” certainly may have the ability to love in a deeper sense than messed up and jaded adults. stephenie even does a great job of providing this as sort of a fundamental of bella’s character by setting bella apart as a caretaker to both her mother and father. it’s true that this is a piece of fiction, but can anyone honestly say they don’t know someone like bella in real life?

the bottom line? love is what the individual makes of it, and no one person (or age group) holds stock in what love means or how it is experienced. so, can a teenager truly love someone? absolutely.

Whether or not their characters are old enough to be judged seriously or not is a understandable question, and the answer is that while in my personal opinion,they are, the answer is indeed irrelevant: for their story has been told, and they have taken the situations that they were given and done the best that they can with them.

People will not generally make the decision to stay away from a person due to the fact that their love may not be taken seriously by another, and in the face or their insurmountable love for each other, they choose to disregard both other’s opinions toward the in the fact of the question of their seriousness of their relationship at such a young age, and the opinions of those who do know of Edward’s secret and how that must affect their relationship, as well as the personal danger, both emotionally and physically that the relationship presents to them both.

This all plus the fact that he’s quite a bit older than he appears (^.~) as well as Bella’s fairly mature nature for her age, plus the fact that she must have a pretty good understanding of herself after everything that she’s gone through, and how much she’s questioned herself through all of it.

As far as Bella’s hesitancy upon the subject of marriage, much of it is due to her somewhat jaded views on marriage due to the way that her parent’s marriage turned out. Bella thinks that her mother in particular would be opposed to her marrying right out of hight school, due to her own mistakes, and being a character who worries about those around her, and their opinions, she would probably see this as a fairly valid reason to not get married. This, in my opinion at least has nothing to do with her feelings for Edward, and she does not ever seem to associate the two within the book.

The final point on the last question being: that this is a BOOK. Teenagers need to have the ability to read a story and be able to understand the differences between hat and reality, even if it is used as an escape method. The question of this being realistic is contradictory to the nature of the book as how many use it, as such: an escape method.

Btw- Icky Vicky Mini get a little carried away…

Bella and Edward have gone threw major lifetime, one-in-a-million, horrible crisises that have somehow brought them together.

would u kindly ZIP IT????!!!!

she told what she thought, and so did you!!!!!!!!!!So what’s the problem? how do you know who she is even talking about?

Don’t even think about makin drama again.

I am soooooo glad i am not your mini me!!!!!!!!! Not to get personal again…

GO TWILIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!