Tips for Teachers: You Too Can Capitalize on Student Interest in Twilight and New Moon
decision-making department, but the analogy still works.
As a whole, the Twilight series is full of literary allusions, including everything from George Orwell to Geoffrey Chaucer. Meyer strategically places her favorite books on her heroine’s bookshelf so that the series’ characters can discuss the best parts. On her website, Meyer even admits that she named her male lead with some of her other favorite heroes in mind, such as Edward Ferrars from Sense and Sensibility and Edward Rochester from Jane Eyre. Moreover, Twilight’s Bryonic hero motif has reinvigorated popular interest in the Brontë sisters, and sales of Wuthering Heights are reportedly skyrocketing in France. Obsessed though your students may be, enthusiasm isn’t one of those
