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By Michaella
Filed in: Article, Books
Oct 08 2009

An interesting little article by the Examiner caught my attention. Listen to this! During the admissions interview for Oxford University, students were asked, “Why might it be useful for an English student to read the Twilight series?”. So reading twilight is truly educational! How about that!

The popular book series, Twilight has now made it to the halls of Oxford University.  The Telegraph is reporting that students applying to Oxford University were asked a question about Twilight by Stephenie Meyer during the rigorous admissions process.

Here is the question that was asked in the interviews for applicants in English Literature:

“Why might it be useful for an English student to read the Twilight series?” 

Whether or not you are a fan of the series, how might you answer the question?

Leave a comment // 4 Comments



by SL in October 09 - 12:52 am

Well why do we read any books in english?We could do questions on the book and all that boring stuff we don’t hear in English.Some of my firends who don’t really like Twilight said it was poorly written.What do you think?




by SL in October 09 - 12:54 am

Wow sorry about the bad spelling ha ha I mean’t to say the stuff we do here in English class.ha ha sorry about that.




by Anna in October 10 - 5:24 pm

If it was poorly written it wouldn’t be the phenomenon that it is today. It’s written from Bella’s perspective, so its all the thoughts going on inside the mind of this character, and most people who hate Twilight joke about how corny Edward is described etc, but it only sounds corny when read from an outsiders perspective, but its written from this character Bella’s perspective, this is how her character describes Edward in her mind, she doesn’t say these things out loud to people, so its not corny! We get an intimate look at how 17 year old Bella’s character thinks in her head and I think its popular because despite having vampires etc in there, ultimately its about general human emotions that everyone feels when they read the books.




by Kristen in October 11 - 6:34 pm

It is NOT poorly written. People just say that to criticize the success of the series. It is written in current times, not one hundred years ago, so people just don’t want to appreciate it ;p



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