The Red Ribbon Meaning[Eclipse Cover Spoiler]

[Hitokiri-hime]

I think the torn ribbon is to represent perhaps a promise being broken? That's what I thought when I saw it.  

[Gethyn]

Phantomette

I don't think it's a scarf.
It's very thin and is torn in two towards the top, as has been said.
It was an excellent thought though!

Anyone else noticed that red is a recurring theme on all the covers?
Perhaps the person who designs the covers likes M. Night Shyamalan.

Or perhaps its just cuz red is associated strongly with blood, and thus vampires.  

[What-I-am-Is-ME]

He He...
I cant wait till Eclipse comes out...When i first saw the cover instint thought light poped up in my lttle mind...The tear in the ribbon could simbolize a pain of somesort like Bella Having to choose between Edward and Jacob...The color red means many different things like love because Bella loves them both...some more than others but still love...Red also a simble of blood maybe Jacob and Edward face it off one on one and thus some blood is still shead. Or The pain Bella may/or may not feel is caused by the many deaths around her...rouge vampire on teh loose...A red ribbon is occasionally centered into love and stuff like that...ne!?
Still thats just me coming from teh littlest of minds
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~mack  

[wanna_b_vampire]

A Thousand Painful Memory

the tulip did have something to do with new moon, rember Edward asked Bella to marry him, flowers wedding, that kinda thing, the apple had something to do with Twilight Edawrd or Bella alwasy would eat an apple, the ribbon has to have something to do with it

i don't know if its just the typos or if its just worded funny, but i have no idea what you are talking about... sweatdrop  

[Karaiya_Ine]

A Thousand Painful Memory

Alisox

When I looked at it, I saw ribbon, I didnt even think scarf.

I doubt it has anything to do with the story though. The tulip had nothing to do with New Moon.


EDIT: Doesnt look too good to me either, but it is torn. I can see the fray a little there.

the tulip did have something to do with new moon, rember Edward asked Bella to marry him, flowers wedding, that kinda thing, the apple had something to do with Twilight Edawrd or Bella alwasy would eat an apple, the ribbon has to have something to do with it

Thats true also but Stephenie didn't have anything to do with the cover of New Moon but she said that Eclipse's cover wuold give too much away so she might of had some decision about that cover


Not to figure out what it means lol...  

[Song of the Sirens]

Cute_honor_student666

What could it mean? It makes me think of St.Marcus day in Volterra when the woman's scarf floats away.How that could possibly be connected, I don't know. It's just the first thing I thought of.


Stephenie said that the cover would give too much away. What could this mean?
I imagine the rip is significant.

I think the ribbon could be a symbol for a relationship in Bella's life. Either Jacob or Edward. And the rip means the end of that relationship. So I'm thinking more towards Jacob. But that's just my thoughts.  

[Gunslinger4ever]

On all of Stephenie Meyer's covers there have been white and red, Except with Eclipse.

Now with Twilight Edward and Bella were just meeting, and falling in love, so the white(dead) hands were holding the red(very alive and full of blood) Apple. The white hands being Edward, and the red apple being Bella.


With New Moon the relationship grew at the beginning,seperated, but is the strongest it has ever been at the end. The flower on the cover is of the two life and death colors merging.


With Eclipse there is broken life. That could either mean Edward leaves bells alive, and hurting. Or it means that her life is broken, as in he left, or she was turned. I do not think however that Edward will turn her. He loves her too much. But we never know.


The rip in the ribbin could also mean that Bella's life is torn between Edward her love, and Jacob her best friend.
 

[Erotica-Exotica]

I think the rip has to do with Edward, but I couldn't help noticing the fact that the ribbion isn't ripped all the way.
There's just a few threads that still connect it--there must be a reason for that.
Also, that scarf theory is intersting, I never thought of that!

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[xanti-lolx]

I think it represents how Bella is split between Edward and Jacob.  

[charliechick117]

Maybe its Bella being ripped in two between Edward and Jacob
and how its slowing starting to get bigger and bigger.
also the cover is being more red
on twilight, there was very little red, so Bella wasnt a vampire
on new moon, there was more red, showing Bella is decided to become a vampire
on eclipse, there is no white, so maybe Bella is a vampire now and because of that Jacob is pulling himself out of her life, thus the tearing  

[arya241]

i think it has something to do with her turning into a vampire and her old life and her new life as a vampire and what spepshal gifts she gets as a vampire  

[charliechick117]

Mezo the strange

sperd_nerd20

Maybe its Bella being ripped in two between Edward and Jacob
and how its slowing starting to get bigger and bigger.
also the cover is being more red
on twilight, there was very little red, so Bella wasnt a vampire
on new moon, there was more red, showing Bella is decided to become a vampire
on eclipse, there is no white, so maybe Bella is a vampire now and because of that Jacob is pulling himself out of her life, thus the tearing

I'm going to have to agree with you. It's almost exactly what I've been thinking.
Maybe it has very little to do with Jacob? Or at least not as much as we think it does. Maybe it has to do with her decision to stray away from humanity and her parents...? Because Charlie and Renee made her decision harder, though she loves Edward, she still can't hurt them.

i never thought of it as her parents, but thats really good!!