Twilight: What Every Book Cover Really Means (Including Midnight Sun) – Screen Rant

The book covers of the Twilight novels seem to have nothing to do with Edward and Bella, but they do have a meaning. Let's take a look.

The covers of the Twilight series might seem unrelated to the novels story and themes, but they do have a meaning and heres what it is. Vampires are an often used creature in literature, and in 2005, Stephenie Meyer introduced readers around the world to a different type of vampires in the novel Twilight, the first entry in a series of four books. Twilight tells the story of the romance between mortal Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen, who over the course of the series come across with different obstacles from werewolf Jacob Black, to a clan of vampires known as the Volturi.

The Twilight series became widely popular, and the fanbase only grew when the books made the jump to the big screen. The Twilight Saga was released between 2008 and 2012, with the final novel, Breaking Dawn, being split into two films. As it happens with many other books that expand to film, the covers were changed to target the audience brought by the movies, adding the faces of the actors and the films posters as covers. However, the original designs can still be found (and might be more popular than the other versions), but not many are aware of the meaning behind such peculiar covers, as they dont explicitly reflect what the novels are about.

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The book covers of the Twilight series have a red, black, and white color palette, and each has a different object that doesnt hold any direct connection with Edward, Bella, Jacob, and the rest, but they do have a meaning. Stephenie Meyer didnt go with the obvious for the covers of her books, so over the years she has had to offer some explanations, which along with the interpretations of fans, make the meaning behind them a bit more interesting. Heres what the book covers of the Twilight series mean, including that of Midnight Sun.

The cover of the Twilight book is, perhaps, the best known of all the series. It features two hands holding a red apple, which according to Meyer is the representation of the forbidden fruit from the Book of Genesis, and thus a symbol of Bella and Edwards forbidden love. Meyer actually used a quote from Genesis at the beginning of the book, as the apple also symbolizes Bellas knowledge of good and evil and the choices she makes. On her official website, Meyer expanded on this saying that the apple has a lot of symbolic roots, and used the examples of Snow White and Paris and the golden apple in Greek mythology, as the fruit in both stories was the trigger of conflict. The Twilight movie made a reference to the cover, in the cafeteria scene where Bella drops an apple and Edward catches it.

While Meyer chose the cover design for Twilight, she didnt get to do so when New Moons time arrived. The cover of the second book in the Twilight series features a flower a ruffled tulip with the same color palette as its predecessor. Meyer has expressed that, as she didnt have anything to do with the idea of the cover for New Moon, she doesnt know what the tulip stands for, and she originally suggested a clock as she saw time as one of the main themes of the story. The artwork team behind the ruffled tulip cover, however, explained that the tulip losing one of its petals represents Bella losing a drop of blood, which is a triggering event at the beginning of the story, with Jasper not able to control his instincts and Edward realizing he was putting Bella in danger. Some fans have interpreted the falling petal as a symbol of Bella losing Edward when he leaves, and even representing her tears.

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