Twilight #2

In the book, Twilight, Edward, the main Cullen character, always tried to protect Bella even though she is a huge whiner in my opinion and always complains. If I were Edward I would not put up with that. I do not understand why he is even slightly attracted to her. Moving on from that, I really liked how sophisticated the Cullens are even though vampires are some of the most unsophisticated people in the world. I think it is interesting how they try to fit in with the rest of the world. The chapter where they went to go play baseball was very interesting. I thought it was cool that the author would have it in there because even if the Cullens are vampires they still like baseball, which can be known as the American pass time. After reading the chapter about them playing baseball and then watching the part of the movie where they play baseball, I think that it is very interesting about how they portrayed it. Although it was exactly how I imagined it, if I were the makers of the movie, I wouldn't have had them climbing up trees, but just running super super far so they wouldn't have had to use those terrible special effects.

Blog #1 for Twilight

After reading the beginning of the book, the one thing that sticks out to me is how much of a self-centered downer Bella is. First of all, when she gets into town, she can barely squeeze out a 'hi' and a nice smile for her dad. I do not care who you are in the car with and what your history is with them, one must be able to do more than what Bella did, especially because it is her dad who she hadn't seen for a long time and she is going to be living with him for the school year. Second of all, her dad, who is nice enough to pick her up from the airport and let her live at his house for the school year, also surprises her with a car! I feel that Bella should been slapped and have had the car taken away because with her 'enthusiasm', she could have made a person with the highest self-esteem feel bad. Also, she has nice people throwing themselves out to be nice to her, especially the girls dream of Edward Cullen. With the tone of this book, I can just see this self-centered downer not cracking a smile and looking not one bit grateful for all of the things she needs to be grateful for. This may just be me seeing how popular this book is, but it is the one thing that stuck out to me when reading the beginning of the novel, Twilight.