Redemption in 'Twilight'

According to R. Scott Ormond (Readers' Forum, Nov. 17), our modern culture's adoration of vampires is a degradation. True, vampires have been symbols of evil demons in the past, but it depends entirely upon that fiction's particular metaphor. In "Twilight," the Cullen vampire coven rejects their malevolent and unsavory tendencies in order to live more humanely and harmoniously with mortals. In essence, they make upright, moral decisions to redeem themselves from their baser natures, which they never sought or even desired.

If Ormond's logic had its way, people such as the children of convicts would have no chance of escaping from the sins of their parents.

It is a person's deeds that make him good or evil, not his blood!

Natalie Dean

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