Stories of monsters have become very popular lately; the majority of the readers and watchers are the younger generation. Walking through books stores all you ever see these days is about vampires, werewolves, witches, etc. The most popular monsters being vampires and werewolves, with every story line making them out to be some kind of hero. Writers are betraying them to be hero’s so that readers aren’t afraid to watch or read about them. Flipping through TV shows these days you’re sure to turn to a couple of them being about vampires or werewolves.
The most popular book out these days is the series of twilight; this series has three books out that they have made into movies. The novels being eclipse, new moon and breaking dawn, these movies are about a teenage girl falling in love with a vampire. There is also this boy Jacob that is a werewolf. After much research the girl finds out that the boy she loves is a vampire but even knowing what she knows she still loves the boy. Edward which is the boys name introduces the girl to his family which being many more into there life.
This series is very popular and has been made into movies as well as books, I heard from this series from my sister which it’s probably the only thing she feels normal doing being she is in the military. She has read every book that has came out and watched every movie. I think people have gotten really attracted to this series that they get everything of this series from bedding, back packs etc. This series has made people see that vampire and werewolves are very fiction but they get the joy in reading and watching.
Writers have also wrote TV series about vampires, the recent one being vampire diaries which is a American teen supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec, which is based on the book series of the same name written by L.J. Smith. This series takes place in Mystic Falls Virginia a fictional small town haunted by supernatural beings. Its main focus of the series is the love triangle between the female Elena and Stefan and Damon all of whom have dark pasts.
Being that twilight was very popular with the public and made so much money, people on television wanted a show that would being in just as much money. This show was also to make the public to be happy and enjoy watching the show. That is the most important thing is to make the watchers happy and this show does. I heard of the show again from my sisters, being she is a huge fan of twilight she was a fan of this one to. I find this show myself to be very weird but if I would have watched and read twilight I would also be a fan of this.
Writers today want reading to see that vampires and werewolves are truly fiction and not to be scared to watch the movies and TV shows they come out with. Mysteries stories have become very popular these days and that are were a lot of the money comes from. People like my sister would stand hours and hours just to be able to see these kinds of stories. With TV shows if a show isn’t being watched with so many people the show is taken off so when they find something people really like they make it in so many ways.
Meyer’s, Stephanie “Twilight Series” Book Series/Movie Series
Williamson, Kevin and Plec, Julie “Vampire Diaries” TV Series
I really enjoyed reading your view on why these types of books and shows are so popular now. I personally haven't read or watched Twilight nor the other show you mentioned, but I have heard of them. What I think makes things like these so popular is that they target younger kids first. When they get the young kids to want to read the books or watch the movies, their parents have to either buy them for them, or take them to see the movie. That sucks the adults in but then they realize that it is kind of entertaining because it is so far fetched. I mean come on, a girl falling in love with a vampire? It's so ridiculous that people have to follow what's going on to see what the creators will come up with next. That is just my opinion though, and like I said, I haven't seen a read any of those so I can't vouche for anything in them that really do make them interesting.
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