I am sorry but with the holidays I have been reading, just not commenting on the wonderful piece of literature I am reading. Once again this is a chapter by chapter breakdown of Twilight by Stephenie Meyer. I am trying to figure out what the big deal is.
When we last left our heroic band of adventurers they were about to be eaten by giant rats…
Chapter Two
Let’s make this one quick- Bella is hoping that the strange kid in her Biology class isn’t rude to her. Life is miserable, She has these boys in competition over her, but not the right boy. You have got to love teen angst. Edward (the strange kid from Biology) doesn’t show up to school for a few days- Bella starts to get concerned that she did something. When he shows up his eyes are are some strange yellow color and he is polite. (I think he’s one of the pod people now) Bella is confused but pulls through by showing Edward that she is smart on a Biology Lab. Bella also thinks that every time Edward leaves school he is laughing at her.
Chapter Three
Oh no! How could things get worse? Snow and ice- Bella doesn’t know what to do. She heads out to school and things go well. When she arrives she finds out her dad had put chains on her truck. As she looks at the chains thinking that it was a nice thought a van pulls into the parking lot out of control and squishes her like a bug. The End.
No, of course not, that would be a very short multi-million dollar movie. So suddenly Edward is standing next to her and pushes her out of the way of the speeding van and uses his body to block the impact. Bella realizes what has been going on as she is taken to the hospital to be examined. As she asked Edward how he saved her, he calmly says that he was standing next to her the whole time. We all know what really happened. Edward was rocketed to Earth from his home planet of Krypton right before it exploded. Now Bella has to figure out where she can get her hands on some Kryptonite to prove her theory. After Edwards denies it and finally breaks off all civil communication with Bella we know something is up.
Chapter Four
Weeks have passed- Bella is once again miserable- Why won’t Edward be nice to her? Once again guys- this trick works in the movies- not in real life. Unless you have worked years to be labelled a “Bad Boy” and time it just right so the girl in question has something to prove- you’ll probably just end up alone. Then again, following a girl around like a little lost puppy dog also doesn’t work (I speak from experience).
So Bella is miserable… and she has all these guys hanging on her every action hoping that she will invite them to the school’s Spring dance. She turns down suitor 1, arranges for suitor 2 to get asked by someone else, and turns down suitor 3 (the guy who hit her with his van). Telling them all that she has plans to go into Seattle that weekend. Edward comes to the rescue and offers to drive her to Seattle because he is afraid her truck won’t make it (See I told you the truck would play a part).
That’s where I’ve ended off and I am still thinking that this is just a weird adaptation of the Superman story. Instead of Smallville Kal-El’s rocket crashed into the woods in the Pacific Northwest. I guessing the other kids in Edward’s “Family” are actually Kryptonians rescued from the phantom zone.
My Prediction: While driving to Seattle, the dam is going to burst causing Edward to show that he has powers far beyond those of mortal men. Bella, unfortunately, will not survive, causing Edward to fly around the Earth so fast that he will change time and save Bella.