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Question: What does each cover of the books in the Twilight series mean!? How are they symbolic!?
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twilight: the apple is supposed to be the forbidden fruit in the bible and it represents choice!. so it represents bella's choice to be with edward!.

new moon: no specific meaning is given but from what i gather the tulip is dried and dead which shows how bella was after edward left!. also there is a single petal falling which can represent the single drop of blood from bella's paper cut which was a catalyst for edward leaving!.

eclipse: Again, no symbolism was given but it has a ribbon which is stretched and is about to tear!. That could represent bella being torn between edward and jacob!.

breaking dawn: meyer said there were two symbols from this cover!. The first is the pawn and the queen!. It represents bella before and after she was changed into a vampire!. also the chess set represents how the final battle with the volturi in the end was actually an intellectual and mental one rather than a physical battle!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It says on her website the exact meanings!.

What's with the apple!?

The apple on the cover of Twilight represents "forbidden fruit!." I used the scripture from Genesis (located just after the table of contents) because I loved the phrase "the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil!." Isn't this exactly what Bella ends up with!? A working knowledge of what good is, and what evil is!. The nice thing about the apple is it has so many symbolic roots!. You've got the apple in Snow White, one bite and you're frozen forever in a state of not-quite-death!.!.!. Then you have Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology—look how much trouble that started!. Apples are quite the versatile fruit!. In the end, I love the beautiful simplicity of the picture!. To me it says: choice!.

What kind of flower is that on the cover, and what does it mean!?

A!. That is a ruffled tulip!. As for the meaning!.!.!. If you've read the Twilight FAQ, you know that the apple cover had a lot of meaning for me, and I was an active part of the covering process!. However, that experience is more the exception than the rule in the publishing world!. Something to keep in mind if you intend to embark on a career as a writer: lots of things you might expect to be under your control are not!. Covers, for example!. Those are mostly up to the publisher and the marketing and sales departments!. So I don't know what the tulip means—I didn't have anything to do with this one!.

What does the cover mean!?

Breaking Dawn's cover is a metaphor for Bella's progression throughout the entire saga!. She began as the weakest (at least physically, when compared to vampires and werewolves) player on the board: the pawn!. She ended as the strongest: the queen!. In the end, it's Bella that brings about the win for the Cullens!.


I didn't see what Eclipse meant, but I think it's about Bella's struggle between Jacob and Edward!. She's the ribbon and they are tugging her until she breaks down!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

i dont know most of them but i asked this same question a while ago lmao
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