This book has recently been on the most Challenged List. (Vampires)
Exposition: The main characters in this story are Bella Swan, Edward Cullen, Charlie Swan, Edward's family, and the kids at school. The story takes place in Forks, Washington. The story begins with Bella coming to live with her father.
Conflict: Bella meets Edward and he acts like he can't stand to be around her. She is definately drawn to him and his beauty.
Rising Action: Forever a clutz, Bella could do worse than to fall in love with Edward. His family is wealthy and his father is a doctor. After talking to an old family friend, she realizes that Edward and his family are all vampires. She also finds out that they are not living off of human blood. They hunt animal blood in the mountains. She has to contend with hostility from Edward's family.
Climax: She is in dire danger when James, Victoria and Laurent, three visiting vampires, begin to hunt her. She is taken to Phoenix to get away from James but he finds her anyway. Her life was almost over.
Falling Action: Edward and Edmund, his brother, find Bella just in time to save her and kill James. She returns to Forks with multiple stitches, broken ribs, and a broken leg. Edward takes her to the prom.
Resolution: Edward promises to stay as long as she needs him but her insistance that he make her a full vampire has angered him. He feels that because of him her life is in grave danger.
Twilight is one of those books that you can't put down once you begin to read them. The suspense keeps growing and doesn't stop. I had to read the second book before I could consider reading anything else.
Literary Elements:
- Imagery - description of scenery, the baseball game, Edward's house all seemed so real to me.
- Irony - Saying that vampires are bad, yet Edward is good
- theme - very much a love story
- simile - likens Edward to a fish covered in warts
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