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Some ways you can tell that the author is being facetious is by the way he makes the series seem like a joke. He says "There has been an illness spreading across America recently that is more virulent and insidious than mad cow disease, swine flu and monkey pox combined. The disease I am referring to, of course, is vampirism." Right there you can tell that this writer hates the idea of vampires being sucked into our brains. It is very true that almost all of us kids, teens and even adults love vampires and the Twilight Series, but to John Houder that's not the case.
Another thing Houder says is, "What's more troubling than the pedophilic relationship between a 17-year-old girl and a man 90 years her senior." (Referring to the Twilight Series.) To me this tells that John really finds the whole story of the Twilight Series sickening and wrong. However, to many of us, the story is extremely romantic and interesting. He seems to try to make us readers believe that the Twilight Series is disgusting and disturbing to read. Almost as if were getting brain-washed by the stories and he's trying to save us from the pathetic obsession of it.
All in all, John Hourder doesn't seem like such a fan of vampires and any story or show related to them. Hourder is very facetious about any vampirism. He makes a parody out of vampires and doesn't take them seriously. I guess he has his own opinion but i will forever stay a vampire lover. (:
The author is clearly annoyed and disturbed about the vampire craze, and who can blame him? 90% of the vampire books and movies are a bit racey. Personally, I'm a vampire hater (TEAM JACOB ALL THE WAY). But that's beside the point, it is true that vampires are not positive role models because of the sex. The undead are portrayed by attractive actors scantily clad and slithering all over each other and preying on innocent victims. But Mr. Hourder needn't worry for long, the vampire craze will be sucked dry with a year or so due to excessive use. Then the next craze will be something like zombies and (hopefully) werewolves.
It is easy to tell that the author is extremely irked by rise in popularity of vampires. You can tell the author is completely facetious by all of his satirical comments throughout his entire article related to especially the Twilight Series and vampires in general. Personally, I found his sarcastic opinion of vampires hilarious. Like the author I definitely don't understand the obsession with Twilight and other vampires. I do own and have read the entire Twilight series; I loved the series, I could easily enjoy reading it again but, I do not see the point in obsessing over something that simply isn't real.
"Do your part and get your kids hooked on something safe like street racing or sexting instead." Anyone in their right mind would never desire to have their kids sexting, or racing cars. The author, John Houder, did this to compare and interpret his feelings towards vampires, all while being facetious. From "guyliner" to getting a "crippling vitamin D deficiency" are his almost sarcastic opinions on vampires. He is clearly bothered by the new trend setting in on teenagers.
I agree with Allyssa and the author; sex appeal is a huge factor in today's society. The author stated, "Imagine how much more authentic but less popular the Twilight movie would have been with a puffy, red-faced Meat Loaf as the male lead instead of the dreamy, hollow-cheeked Robert Pattinson." Without society's standards of wanting a beautiful person that has immortal qualities, "vampirism" would be nonexistant.
Hmmm...do you really think he's that annoyed with the topic of vampires or more annoyed with people's overzealous responses to the trend?
You can tell the author is being facetious by the way he makes "vampirism" seem like it's a major disease. He says "There has been an illness spreading across America recently that is more virulent and insidious than mad cow disease, swine flu and monkey pox combined". By saying this the author is showing how disgusted he is with the public's reaction to the latest vampire craze. He suggests "healthy" alternatives to "vampirism" such as "getting your kids hooked on something safe like street racing or “sexting” instead." This is where you can definitely tell he is being facetious because no parent is going to want their child to be sexting or racing cars.
You can tell that the author is being facetious because you can tell that he is being biased. He uses his dislike for the story line to create sarcastic jokes and puns. He is also giving the current vampire craze the actual characteristics of a real vampire. He is saying that by reading into all of this vampire hype you yourself well fall under its spell like Lucy and the other voluptuous women and victims fell under Dracula's spell. I think most people in their right mind won't get seduced by these stories, they may enjoy them but they will not posses its content.
Mrs. Matysak i think the author of the article is annoyed with the responses. I mean come on, basically everything revolves around vampires and vampirism has basically become an addiction to us teen, kids, and even adults.
The author has made many obvious points of being facetious. Right from the get-go you can tell that the author is being facetious, especially with a title like "Sexy vampires are destroying our nation's children". The author definitely over-exaggerates when he says that the illness which is spreading, Vampirism, is worse than the swine flu, the mad cow disease and monkey disease combined.. You can tell he's exaggerating, obviously, because we know that pretending to be vampires is far less harmful, if even harmful at all, than actual deadly diseases the author had mentioned. The author makes fun of how the relationship of Bella and Edward is a pedophilic one. The author's sarcastic nature doesn't even stop there. He goes on to say that children would be safer "Streetracing" or "Sexting". I'm definitely sure that I would rather my child be obsessed with a fictional idea of Vampires than to be messing around with streetracing or sexting.
The author makes it very clear that he loathes the new Vampire craze that's going on, and claims that the only reason it's gotten so popular is because the media has attractive people fit the roles of Vampires. Any movie would be less worth watching without sexy actors and actresses. But I don't believe the sex appeal is the only reason that teens and young adults are drawn to it. I know for a fact I'd still be interested in reading Twilight even if Stephanie Meyer had described all the characters as ugly because I was far more into the story line than trying to imagine what these people look like. Anyways, the author doesn't seem to appreciate the new perspective given to "Vampires" and he is pointing out how the views of vampires have changed.
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