TWILIGHT BY STEPHENIE MEYER: BOOK SUMMARY / CHAPTER NOTES

OVERALL ANALYSIS

CHARACTER ANALYSIS

Bella Swan

Bella Swan's main development as a character is her movement through adolescence to emotional and sexual maturity by finding her first - and perfect - love, Edward Cullen. She arrives in Forks for the sake of her mother, feeling out of place and not even fitting the stereotype that could be placed on a Phoenix transplant. Nevertheless, she blossoms immediately as she attracts the attention of several boys before the bond with Edward is cemented. That her first love is someone as beautiful and unusual as Edward is key to the fantasy of Twilight - first love is a common rite of passage, but one that has added weight here because her choice turns out to be a century-old vampire, with all the romance and danger and exoticism it carries. Her interactions with Edward help embolden her in unexpected way: she goes matchmaking to fend off the attention of Mike and Eric, and even flirts with Jacob Black to gain some much-needed information about the Cullen family.

Bella is a strongly emotional character, as seen by the tears she cannot control. However, she also has a strong intellectual side - she enjoys literature and also takes on great determination when she reaches a specific decision in her life. This determination, this force of will, is evident in both the Prologue and in the beginning of the first chapter. Thus, when Bella is determined to stay with..........

Edward Cullen

Edward Cullen is as complex a figure in Twilight as Bella, but this is due to his history more than his development over the course of the novel. His growth comes from the same root as Bella's: their mutual love, as unlikely as it is. By falling in love with a human - further, a human who appeals greatly to his predatory vampire instincts - he must regain touch with his humanity. If he hews too close to his..........

Jacob Black

Jacob Black develops physically in this first novel more than emotionally: he gains a great deal of height over the course of the book, going from shorter to............

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