‘TWILIGHT’: WHAT’S WITH THE APPLE?

I thought it was cool.

I thought the ‘forbidden fruit’ analogy was good. But, I thought it could apply to Bella or Edward. There would be elements for both that should cause them to shy away from each other.

I’m not sure what a ‘working knowledge’ would be in this instance. She was raised as most people are, with knowing what constitutes ‘right and wrong’. Is this knowledge any different? Does Stephenie mean Bella learned about ‘good and bad vampires’, or something else? Or was she referring to learning of the existence of vampires?

The Snow White connection, not so much. Yes, a kind of partial death (a true fantasy conception), but Snow White just lay there, as if she really was dead. The vampires continued as if they were alive. Enough so they could pretend to be human.

At first, I thought more about the color of the skin than the apple. However, I think with a photo set up as this was, holding the apple in a way as to offer it, it would lead you to think it was forbidden, or would lead you to something forbidden.

um i think the symbol of the apple is awsome it does explain why she picked the apple and its great i love it

when i first saw the cover i liked it but i didnt knoe wat it ment but when i started reading the story i figured it out and i thought it was perfect for the cover

I wasn’t sure before on what SM’s thinking behind the offering apple symbol was, but I always thought it was a reference to forbidden fruit. Thanks for confirming that is actually what SM meant as well.

I had also wondered about the apple thing when I first saw the book cover, and thought that has not much do with Vampires, I loved it when Catherine put it in the movie, with Edward catching the apple, “Edible art, Bella?” Now “Of course” hello, forbidden Fruit, yep, totally get it now….god I am slow…..

Ahhhh!!!What I just wrote got lost in space. Anyway,I’ll try again.
I love the cover of all the books.Their kind of mysterious in their own way.I never understood that apple thing,until I read about what it meant somewhere. I never saw the apple in the movie either, till my daughter said to go watch one of the trailers for the movie. After umpteen times,I said OHHHHHHHH!!!! Well that’s not my fault. It’s EDWARD’S. You see I always knew he was there,right after Bella fixes her salad in the cafeteria.Sooo,I was not focusing on an apple. So don’t feel bad Australia Mom.Also the title is perfect too,since it doesn’t tell anything,really.I remember when Edward talks about that time of day, and how it’s perfect for vampires.Aren’t you glad,Stephenie didn’t put some cheesy model guy on the books,like these other authors do?
Never ever thought of the Snow White thing.

I actually think the cover is ingenious. It gives off that aura of mystery to the book. Just by looking at it, it gives nothing away regarding the story esp. about vampires. I like that ghostly feel of the hands holding the bright apple, which could be interpreted as a contrast between life and death. SM referred to it as the forbidden choice, which of course only makes sense after one reads the book. As for my interpretation of the fruit of knowledge, as in Genesis, Adam and Eve lost their “innocence” after taking the forbidden fruit, just as Bella lost her innocence regarding the existence of a supernatural world and yet gaining that knowledge that such a world existed at the same time.

It was only after the 3rd time that I saw the movie when I noticed Edward holding that apple like the cover, and I thought it was a defining moment in the film.

I always knew the apple was the forbidden fruit and symbolic of the ‘wrong’ kind of love (and by implication, sex) between Bella and Edward. I knew it was Edward’s hand offering the apple because he was the one who opened Bella’s eyes to the ‘reality’ of immortality. Once Bella ‘bit the apple,’ she lost her innocence twice over: first, she fell in love for the first time and felt the unfamiliar but consuming desire of a lover for her beloved; and second, because she fell in love with a vampire, she entered a ‘magical’ world that she previously was unaware coexisted with her own.

i really get the cove, and can see where Stephenie is comming from with the whole ‘forbiden friut’ symbolism thing, esspeacially with the genis quote at at the begining of the book. It brings in the biblical thing with Carlisle (which was so completely different from the vamp stereotype), and Edwards obsession with Bella’s soul (which is really sweet, i wish i had a guy that was that protective and cared that much about me!).

What i don’t really get are the other covers. Breaking Dawn could reference to Alice and Edward palying chess is suppose, but i have read and re-read the other two books trying to find a connection with the flowers/leaf ting on the cover of New Moon, and the ribbon on Eclipse. Does anyone have any ideas? don’t get me wrong i love the covers, they’re all mysterious (amd not at all trashy, which is so easy to do with vamp fiction), but i still don’t get them.

I think the apple as the forbidden fruit is amazing, I never thought of it that way until I read this, but it makes perfect sense.
When I first saw the cover, I didn’t really understand or make any connection to it–I just saw very, very pale arms/hands holding a little red apple.

With the “working knowledge” I think Bella gets a good look into what most would consider the “bad” or “tempting” world..and it’s kind of like Edward is her “forbidden fruit” which lets her see the good and bad of everything, including himself and his kind.
I think it’s a very spiritual meaning, which goes right along with the book.

I love it! haha
Now what about the other books covers meanings? I know what Breaking Dawn’s is..but what about NM and Eclipse?

The first thing that came to my mind when I saw the cover of the book was the bible.Not so much good and evil but knowledge: bella’s knowing the truth about Edward. For me it also represents the first love of all times Adam and Eve, devoted to each other in paradise.

Penguins, loverly: Go to Stephenie’s website. Click on the page devoted to each book. She has FAQs for each book.

A quick summary: Twilight as discussed above.
New Moon: That is a ruffled tulip. She had nothing to do with it’s selection and says it has no meaning for her.
Eclipse: No explanation given.
Breaking Dawn: The chess piece is a metaphor for Bella’s progression through the entire saga. She began as the weakest player (pawn) and finished as the strongest (queen). She saved the Cullens in the battle at the end.

Meaning aside, I thought the black background and red and white color scheme is very dramatic. Very classy and instantly recognizable as part of the Twilight series. I love them all.

My personal opinion is that it should mean bella to edward. The hands represent how edward protects bella and the way they are shows how he wants to show her to his side of the world. Bella is the apple. because to edward she is so “tasty” that he wants to “eat” her at the same time as he wants to love her (protect her like i said). I think the black bacground represents darkness of the vampire world. the red of the apple represents bella blood and the white/grey of the hands represent edwards skin.

i think new moon is like bellas just ready to show herself into the (new like new moon) world of vampires and really flower, blossom etc when things go upside down (like how the flower is n the cover) and she finds jacob who then becomes this new part of her that is not as big but still…(that shows the petal at the top (like to the left)) and then the drop of the small petal is like the blood from the papercut and how the blood like represents the way her heart falls and how it will scar and how edward left a mark and such. i think the stem is like how things started off with bella and edward and the green on the petal (wich i said made me think of jacob earlier) is like how it should have been if edward wasnt there which then goes into a (smaller but still) different start.and i think the colours fading )red to white) becuase now theres two. like jacob is red…like the wolf and how hes now a creature of the other world and how edwrd (the white cos hes so pale) was always ne (since he met bella at least ).

i think eclipse cover is suppose to be like how the two parts of the ribbon (bella= jacob+edward) a being pulled apart and she has to choose which side to keep.

i think breaking dawn is like she just about to win…get everything she wanted in life when the volturi come and get ready to take it from her. and then when they fix it how the volturi are still lerking at the side ready to do it all again. i think the board represents good (white) and evil (black) vampires and how they stand together to fight. and then it fads of cause they dont fight anyway. i think the red is like how the volturi want to kill and the white is like how bella wants to be good and like the cullens and stuff.

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SM did explain the cover of Eclipse… the fact that the ribbon breaks but not completely symbolizes Bella’s inability/reluctance to break away from her human life completely.

I think all the covers are amazing! The Apple thing still confuses me a bit. But to New Moon. Kaites Question–>New Moon seems like the scene whee japer tryed to bite her on her birthday and she got blood on the roses alice put out. I Havent red the other ones! SADLY! but i started last week..THERE AWSOME!

I love the cover. It expresses the hidden meaning so vividly. I actually did see the apple cameo in the movie the first time. And I was so proud of my dad. He watched it with me once, without ever seeing the book, and afterwards when I lent him the book (he actually wanted to read it!) he noticed right away that the apple was in the movie!

i think it was an awesome representation of edwards pain ..becuase bella was truly the only thing he couldn take a ‘bite’ of

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I thought that the apple represented the idiom ” apple of my eye” and that means charished above all others. Which supports Edward’s love for Bella.