They went out to look for Edward and help Cullens to beat Volturi 
But if serious then that's just very crazy!!! 
Twilight and Breaking Dawn blamed for thirteen year old runaways
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If there was ever a story about the need to reign in reality for some kids, this is it.
Sure, we've heard of kids supposedly biting eachother to imitate Twilight (or so their parents might suggest), but this story takes the concept of "life imitating art" in the Twilight world to all new heights.
According to a local Massachusetts newspaper, two thirteen year old kids ran away - and police think it has something to do with Twilight and Breaking Dawn.
Says the Gloucester Daily,
Police say they are still not certain why two 13-year-old Rockport girls decided to skip school and set up an overnight camp in the woods of Gloucester on Monday.
But Rockport police Sgt. Mark Schmink said letters addressed to friends and family left behind by the Rockport Middle School students indicated they may have been inspired by the best-selling, young adult book series, "Twilight," a fantasy romance series recently adapted into a blockbuster movie.
The reason that the police are fingering the Twilight series, according to the publication, is that
As police searched for the girls later Monday, overnight and into yesterday morning, clues to their disappearance came streaming into police headquarters.
According to police Chief Tom McCarthy, notes relative to girls' disappearance were found in their friends' lockers and under their pillows at home. The family of one of the girls also told police they had found a list of camping supplies and that a tent and air mattress were missing.
"At that point, it became apparent they were camping out somewhere," McCarthy said.
After reading the notes left for friends at school and conducting searches in both girls' homes, Schmink — who has read all four "Twilight" books and saw the movie with his daughter — hypothesized the girls may have been inspired by the series.
"The reason these kids left wasn't drugs or alcohol, they weren't lured out of the house by a predator, and there wasn't a bad family environment," Schmink said yesterday.
"This is pure conjecture as to a reason why this occurred because they don't want to discuss it," Schmink said. "But they both had "Twilight" posters in their bedrooms and the letters (in the lockers) reference specific characters and almost matched a letter printed in the fourth book, word for word."
Says the Gloucester Times in a separate publication on the event,
Rockport police Chief Tom McCarthy said Schmink's familiarity with the story — he has read all four "Twilight" books and saw the movie with his daughter — was extremely helpful to the investigation .
...
"From reading the notes, they very much represented the same type of thought process and themes that were throughout the 'Twilight' series of books and the movie," Schmink said.
The "a" in Pamela's signature on one of the letters featured two fangs with blood dripping from them, Schmink said.
"Also, there were references to specific characters in the books in the letters left under their pillows," he said. "The letters (left in their friends' lockers) matched a letter in the fourth book ("Breaking Dawn") almost word for word. The letters followed the same story line where they said they had to get away because they were endangering people by staying around and that the reason would become apparent to people later."
However, the letters weren't the only pieces that helped Schmink make the "Twilight" connection.
"The reason these kids left wasn't drugs or alcohol, they weren't lured out of the house by a predator and there wasn't a bad family environment," Schmink noted. "They both had 'Twilight' posters and books in their bedrooms."
Undoubtedly, the police chief's familiarity with the Twilight series aided in understanding the motives of these two runaways.
We've already discussed the issue of whether Breaking Dawn is a children's book. Although our discussion of the question centered on the fact that the intimacy and level of violence in the series was substantially elevated in Breaking Dawn, apparently there is more to the matter than we initially expected.
If the "runaway" sequences with Alice and Jasper have really played any part - which, from the chief's experience with the series and his observations with the children's notes, seems to be the case - in the disappearance of these kids, there is a wealth of new discourse that needs to be had about this portion of the Twilight saga (as well as, potentially, the other books).
Parents of young teens that are reading or have read the Twilight series probably don't expect that things can get out of hand this way in the very minds of their youngsters, but the truth is that kids are impressionable, and they need to be guided.
With the Harry Potter series, for instance, many parents chose to offer a gentle resistence to the fleeting imaginations of their children and remind them of the concept of fiction and fantasy. The sentiment, when necessary, is that imagination is okay - but it does not extend to reality in certain ways. (In other words, with the Harry Potter series, escaping plight cannot be done with the flicker of a wrist and the like.)
In the case of Twilight, perhaps parents who have young children with an interest in the book and film series should take it upon themselves to make sure their children have a firm grasp on the distinctions between the spunk-tastic and enjoyable world where vampires, werewolves, and immortality exist and the real world where actions have consequences, and otherworldly beings such as the Cullen and La Push families are but a literary creation.
With this understanding, perhaps, incidents such as these - which can be life-threatening to these children - wouldn't happen at all.
So, I ask you, how would you try to communicate these messages to your children if they were reading the Twilight series? How would you approach the discussion so as not to stifle their creativity while still bolstering the norms of actuality in their thought processes? Comment below and let us know your thoughts!
http://www.examiner.com/x-4908-Twilight-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Twilight-and-Breaking-Dawn-blamed-for-thirteen-year-old-runaways
But if serious then that's just very crazy!!! Twilight and Breaking Dawn blamed for thirteen year old runaways
If there was ever a story about the need to reign in reality for some kids, this is it.Sure, we've heard of kids supposedly biting eachother to imitate Twilight (or so their parents might suggest), but this story takes the concept of "life imitating art" in the Twilight world to all new heights.
According to a local Massachusetts newspaper, two thirteen year old kids ran away - and police think it has something to do with Twilight and Breaking Dawn.
Says the Gloucester Daily,
Police say they are still not certain why two 13-year-old Rockport girls decided to skip school and set up an overnight camp in the woods of Gloucester on Monday.
But Rockport police Sgt. Mark Schmink said letters addressed to friends and family left behind by the Rockport Middle School students indicated they may have been inspired by the best-selling, young adult book series, "Twilight," a fantasy romance series recently adapted into a blockbuster movie.
The reason that the police are fingering the Twilight series, according to the publication, is that
As police searched for the girls later Monday, overnight and into yesterday morning, clues to their disappearance came streaming into police headquarters.
According to police Chief Tom McCarthy, notes relative to girls' disappearance were found in their friends' lockers and under their pillows at home. The family of one of the girls also told police they had found a list of camping supplies and that a tent and air mattress were missing.
"At that point, it became apparent they were camping out somewhere," McCarthy said.
After reading the notes left for friends at school and conducting searches in both girls' homes, Schmink — who has read all four "Twilight" books and saw the movie with his daughter — hypothesized the girls may have been inspired by the series.
"The reason these kids left wasn't drugs or alcohol, they weren't lured out of the house by a predator, and there wasn't a bad family environment," Schmink said yesterday.
"This is pure conjecture as to a reason why this occurred because they don't want to discuss it," Schmink said. "But they both had "Twilight" posters in their bedrooms and the letters (in the lockers) reference specific characters and almost matched a letter printed in the fourth book, word for word."
Says the Gloucester Times in a separate publication on the event,
Rockport police Chief Tom McCarthy said Schmink's familiarity with the story — he has read all four "Twilight" books and saw the movie with his daughter — was extremely helpful to the investigation .
...
"From reading the notes, they very much represented the same type of thought process and themes that were throughout the 'Twilight' series of books and the movie," Schmink said.
The "a" in Pamela's signature on one of the letters featured two fangs with blood dripping from them, Schmink said.
"Also, there were references to specific characters in the books in the letters left under their pillows," he said. "The letters (left in their friends' lockers) matched a letter in the fourth book ("Breaking Dawn") almost word for word. The letters followed the same story line where they said they had to get away because they were endangering people by staying around and that the reason would become apparent to people later."
However, the letters weren't the only pieces that helped Schmink make the "Twilight" connection.
"The reason these kids left wasn't drugs or alcohol, they weren't lured out of the house by a predator and there wasn't a bad family environment," Schmink noted. "They both had 'Twilight' posters and books in their bedrooms."
Undoubtedly, the police chief's familiarity with the Twilight series aided in understanding the motives of these two runaways.
We've already discussed the issue of whether Breaking Dawn is a children's book. Although our discussion of the question centered on the fact that the intimacy and level of violence in the series was substantially elevated in Breaking Dawn, apparently there is more to the matter than we initially expected.
If the "runaway" sequences with Alice and Jasper have really played any part - which, from the chief's experience with the series and his observations with the children's notes, seems to be the case - in the disappearance of these kids, there is a wealth of new discourse that needs to be had about this portion of the Twilight saga (as well as, potentially, the other books).
Parents of young teens that are reading or have read the Twilight series probably don't expect that things can get out of hand this way in the very minds of their youngsters, but the truth is that kids are impressionable, and they need to be guided.
With the Harry Potter series, for instance, many parents chose to offer a gentle resistence to the fleeting imaginations of their children and remind them of the concept of fiction and fantasy. The sentiment, when necessary, is that imagination is okay - but it does not extend to reality in certain ways. (In other words, with the Harry Potter series, escaping plight cannot be done with the flicker of a wrist and the like.)
In the case of Twilight, perhaps parents who have young children with an interest in the book and film series should take it upon themselves to make sure their children have a firm grasp on the distinctions between the spunk-tastic and enjoyable world where vampires, werewolves, and immortality exist and the real world where actions have consequences, and otherworldly beings such as the Cullen and La Push families are but a literary creation.
With this understanding, perhaps, incidents such as these - which can be life-threatening to these children - wouldn't happen at all.
So, I ask you, how would you try to communicate these messages to your children if they were reading the Twilight series? How would you approach the discussion so as not to stifle their creativity while still bolstering the norms of actuality in their thought processes? Comment below and let us know your thoughts!
http://www.examiner.com/x-4908-Twilight-Examiner~y2009m6d17-Twilight-and-Breaking-Dawn-blamed-for-thirteen-year-old-runaways
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