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To: nickcarraway

Not exactly. From Wikipedia:

“Inspiration and themes

According to the author, her books are “about life, not death” and “love, not lust”. Each book in the series was inspired by and loosely based on a different literary classic: Twilight on Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, New Moon on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Eclipse on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, and Breaking Dawn on a second Shakespeare play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.[16] Meyer also states that Orson Scott Card and L. M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables series are a big influence on her writing.[13]
Other major themes of the series include choice and free will.[13][17] Meyer says that the books are centered around Bella’s choice to choose her life on her own, and the Cullens’ choices to abstain from killing rather than follow their temptations: “I really think that’s the underlying metaphor of my vampires. It doesn’t matter where you’re stuck in life or what you think you have to do; you can always choose something else. There’s always a different path.”
Meyer, a Mormon, acknowledges that her faith has influenced her work. In particular, she says that her characters “tend to think more about where they came from, and where they are going, than might be typical.” Meyer also steers her work from subjects such as sex, despite the romantic nature of the novels. Meyer says that she does not consciously intend her novels to be Mormon-influenced, or to promote the virtues of sexual abstinence and spiritual purity, but admits that her writing is shaped by her values, saying, “I don’t think my books are going to be really graphic or dark, because of who I am. There’s always going to be a lot of light in my stories.”


47 posted on 06/24/2010 1:09:20 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham; nickcarraway
Meyer, a Mormon, acknowledges that her faith has influenced her work. In particular, she says that her characters “tend to think more about where they came from, and where they are going..."

Meyer's characters re: 'where they come from': Mormons claim they always "have been" -- that people are in one sense "uncreated"...Here, I'll let Joey Smith lay it out for himself in Lds "scripture":

"Man was also in the beginning with God.
Intelligence...was not created or made, neither indeed can be...
For man is spirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected..." (Mormon "scripture" -- Doctrine & Covenants 93:29, 33)

There ya go: Mormon intelligences, Mormon spirits go back to eternity past as much as their god does (so they say)...which doesn't explain why then they needed to be born as a spirit by a Mom-goddess in the pre-existence if they already were...but why should anything about Mormonism make sense, knowing its true source?

...and where they are going...

Lds general authorities for decades have been labeling their followers as "gods-in-embryo." So where are they going? Why, they're growin' up to be gods!!!

12th "prophet" of the Mormon church, Spencer W. Kimball: "Brethren, 225,000 of you are here tonight. I suppose that 225,000 of you may become gods" ( The Ensign, November 1975, 1980).

No wonder the Twilight storyline includes a character who's becoming a "god."

68 posted on 06/24/2010 3:20:13 PM PDT by Colofornian
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