What do the titles “Twilight” and “Eclipse” mean?
I know that “New Moon” was titled that because the darkest night is the night of a new moon and the book is Bella’s darkest time. But I couldn’t find out why the other two books were titled what they were.
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twilight- the main point and change of bella’s life
Eclipse- In this case, Jacob’s the sun, and Edward’s the moon. At the end he states “The clouds I can handle, but I can’t fight w/ an eclipse.”
and new moon, you already know.
On a FAQ on Stephenie Meyer’s site, it says…
Twilight was not the easiest book to title. When I started sending out queries, I called it Forks for lack of a better idea. The first thing my agent advised me was that the title was going to have to change. We played around with a lot of different titles, and nothing seemed to convey the right feel. We brainstormed through emails for about a week. The word twilight was on a list of “words with atmosphere” that I sent her. Though these words were meant to be used in combination with something else, the word twilight stood out to both of us. We decided to try it out, and, after a little adjustment time, it started to work for both of us. It isn’t absolutely perfect; to be honest, I don’t think there is a perfect title for this book (or if there is, I’ve never heard it). When I look at the titles other countries have used (examples: Germany: Bis zum Morgengrauen which is “Until Dawn” or “Bite” if you add an “s” to make it “biss” (if you look at the German book cover on the Twilight International page); Finland: “Temptation;” France: “Fascination;” and Japan, which has split it into three separate books: “The Boy Whom I Love is a Vampire,” “Blood Tastes Sadness,” and “The Vampire Family in the Darkness.”), it seems like I might be right about that. (Both New Moon and Eclipse were much easier to title, and the titles also fit better.)
I’m not sure about Twilight, but Eclipse is the sun and moon overlapping, which represents Edward’s Bella and Jacob’s Bella (like the magnets in the book) overlapping. It means she can’t decide between them.
I think Breaking Dawn means that good things are going to happen because it’s like the sun rising.
Twilight: http://stepheniemeyer.com/twilight_faq.h...