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=﻿Focus Assignment= =﻿Plot= The story takes place in Forks, Washington (present day) and is about a seventeen year old girl named Isabella Swan. Bella Swan decides to move from sunny Poenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father Charlie, in order to allow her mother, Renee, to travel with her new husband, Phil (a minor league baseball player). Even though she never had many friends in Phoenix, Bella quickly discovers she is the new subject of curiosity and envy at her new school in Forks, where she quickly meets new friends. Much to her embarrassment, Bella discovers that several boys are competing for her attention. Bella finds Forks a bit repetitive. She never liked the ever-raining city as a child, and even referred to it in Twilight as her "own personal hell on earth". However, the one exception to her boring life in Forks is Edward Cullen, the gorgeous and beautiful, mysterious boy she sits next to in her biology class. Through their unbelievably strange friendship she hears 'ridiculous' rumours that Edward and his family are more than beautiful humans, but despite having many theories she cannot bring herself to believe that there is a supernatural explanation for Edward's behavior. Bella and Edward quickly fall inlove and, after spending more time with him, she realizes that he has unnatural abilities. Isabella finds out that Edward and his mysterious family really are vampires but, she doesn't care and is still deeply inlove with him. Their foremost problem is Bella's alluring scent, which "sings" to Edward and makes it difficult for him to restrain himself from attacking. The seemingly blissful state of affairs is thrown into chaos when another vampire coven sweeps into Forks and James, a tracker, sets his sights on Bella. Edward, along with the rest of the Cullen family, have to rescue Bella before James kills her. Bella runs of, after getting a phone call from her mother's house saying that James had her prisoner, and is left alone with James, helpless and unprotected. In the chaos James bites Bella, which complicates matters further; the venom injected into a victim of a vampire attack starts the process of turning the victim into a vampire ( beneath the surface, tension remains as Bella wishes for Edward to turn her into a vampire while Edward refuses to do so). Just before James could finish Bella off, Edward showed up, killed James, and brought Bella to safety. Bella healed, and the insident with the tracker (almost killing Bella) just intensified the love between Edward and Isabella (Bella).

Twilight is told in first person in Bella's perspective. Twilight, the title of the novel, has a lot to do with the book because it was a comparison used in the book by Edward between Bella and twilight, “...before you, Bella, my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars- points of light and reason. And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliancy, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn’t see the stars anymore. And there was no more reason for anything.”-- Edward Cullen. In the novel, two things make up the central conflict. The first conflict is the struggle for Edward to not drink Bella's addictive and tempting blood. The second conflict was that James, a roge vampire, was tracking Bella and that the only way to stop him is for the Cullen family to kill him; which goes against their way of life. The climax of the story occurs when James decides to track Bella and kill her. James captures Bella and is planning on how to slowly torture her slowly. The climax is resolved when Edward arrives just in time to save her and kill James. Carlisle, Edward's father, takes care of Bella (because he is a doctor) and brings her to the hospital; where she spends a few days healing from the injuries James gave her. I really enjoyed the plot of the story. It was interesting to read about vampires falling inove with humans, and all the struggles that occur within that type of relationship. I also liked it because it was captivating and kept my interest because I wanted to know more about the mysterious Cullen family, and why Edward acted so strangely around Bella. It was a fantastic romance and action novel, and I would recomend all teenage girls to read it.