Writing - Good & Bad - Edward Cullen?

[zanooda2]

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> If you were a young healthy 500 year old person (or however old
> Edward Cullen is) would you really be content to spend your 
> life in a small town high school.


zanooda:

I must admit that I didn't watch the movie, so I wouldn't know how it was explained there, but in the book Edward is *only* 100 year old, LOL. He was born in 1901 (iirc - I only read it once :-)) and became a vampire in 1918, during that Spanish flu epidemic, or how this was called.

As for spending his life in high school, LOL, maybe you are right to some point, but I wouldn't have called it his entire life. Meyers' vampires don't sleep, so a few hours of school a day don't take much of their time :-). 

Vampires that drink human blood are nomads, but the Cullens are not, they live among humans, with Carlisle working at hospitals and all that, so they need some legitimate facade and more or less realistic story to present. As it is, they need to move every few years so that people couldn't notice that they don't age. All the Cullen "children" go to high school in every new place, because this way they can stay in every given place longer. 

Then they all go off to college, always to a different one, I assume, and study something different every time. They have superior mental ability and memory, and also unlimited time to study, so they are very educated. I don't know the details, but Edward, for example, speaks every language in the world and seems to know everything, LOL. So he doesn't really need school, it's just a facade :-). 

I suppose they wouldn't need all that if they went their separate ways (and sometimes they go away for a while), but they seem to need each other to go on with their "vegetarian" lifestyle :-). It's something like a support group, you know? "Hi, I'm Edward Cullen and I'm a vampire...", LOL.