Book Report: Twilight

This book is about an avarage girl who falls in love with a vampire, who in turn falls in love with her, and has to fight his own self and nature in order not to end her life, for he was not only in love with her, but was also enormously attracted to the smell of her blood. I don’t really know how to describe this plot, the best way I can think about it would be as a man vs. man vs. self.

I did find this conflict very interesting, because the typical vampire story ends up with Dracula sucking on some beautiful woman’s neck, using all his charm and hability to draw the prey towards himself without the need to fight her or force her to do anything. Instead, in this book, the main vampire’s struggle is to keep himself from using his natural gifts to seduce the victim, and try to love and be with her despite his thirst.

I think the climax of the book really is at the end, where Bella (the main character) tells Edward (the vampire) that she is ready to spend the rest of eternity with him, and that she really wants to become like him, aka, she asks Edward to turn her into a vampire.

Edward instead just gives her a kiss, and tells her “not this time”, (but of course there was a huge wave of suspense between Bella’s thoughts and what Edward was about to do).

I think I would have been really excited if Bella was turned into a vampire, but if she was, then there would have to bee a whole other story to be told, and that wouldn’t have made such a good ending. I suppose she will be turned into one eventually, so I think I’m glad with how this ended (the resolution).

The main characters of this book are Bella and Edward. Bella thinks she’s a shy, normal, completily unfabulous 17 year old. She’s not very tall, her mom is part albino and therefore she’s really pale. People around her, however, think she is very attractive (she gets asked out by all the guys at school, which makes Edward a little jealous), but she doesn’t seem to see why. 

Edward, on the other hand, is a vampire. He’s beautiful, strong, graceful, and very self-controlled. He struggles a lot between his thirst and love for Bella in the begining, but learns how to controll his hunger for her neck eventually, at about the middle of the book.

The character I find most interesting is Alice Cullen, one of Edward’s “siblings”. I think she’s interesting because she’s a mistery, no one knows where she came from, and I can’t really tell why Edward is so fond of her, nor can I tell when she’s making a joke or is causal about things frightening. For example, there is a scene in the book where Bella tells Edward she’s not afraid of him, at this Edward jumps at her violently, but he’s really just joking, protecting her with her arms. Since Alice could see the future (subjectively), she probably just saw the scene where Edward attacked Bella, so when she entered the room she said something like “I was wondering if you would share”.

Over all I did enjoy the book a lot, it’s the typical kind of theme particularly teen age girls are into reading, a vampire romance… I’d recommend it to any girl and romantic guys.