Outside Reading #1

The main characters in, "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer are Bella, Edward, Alice, and James. Bella is a 17-year-old girl who moves to Forks, Washington to escape her mother's second marriage to live with her father, Charlie. At first she hates living in Forks, but eventually she meets Edward. The two fall in love, but there's a problem, Edward is a vampire and it's very hard for him to resist the scent of her blood. But because he loves her so much, he restrains himself and the couple learns to be careful. Alice is Edward's "sister" in his family of vampires which is more like a clan. The two arn't blood related they just live together. Alice accepts Bella before the rest of her family does which creates a growing friendship between the two. When Edward takes Bella to meet his family they decide to play baseball and the noise attracts three stranger vampires, one of which is James, a ruthless tracker who takes pleasure out of a good hunt which ends in his drinking human blood. James decides to track Bella and Edward, Alice, and the rest of his family have to figure out how to keep Bella safe until they find and inevitably kill James. Bella is motivated by Edward, Edward by Bella, Alice by her family and friends, and James by blood.
One major conflict I mentioned above is the struggle for Edward not to kill his love Bella. He explains to Bella how hard it was for him to resist her scent the first day he saw her, "The fragrance coming off your skin...I though it would make me deranged that first day," (Meyer 270). Edward had to decide to be with Bella and resist, or leave her and forever live wanting her. "Bella, I couldn't live with myself if I ever hurt you...You are the most important thing to me now," (Meyer 273). Edward learns that he can resist his thirst which is undoubtubly extremely powerful, but his love for Bella is even more so.