Isabella "Bella" Swan - A 17-year-old girl who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father.Edward continues to refuse to turn her, as he thinks being a vampire is being a monster, and does not want Bella to suffer the same fate. Bella says that she wants to become like him, a vampire, but Edward reiterates he is against this.īella's desire to become a vampire increases throughout the series. Edward prevents Bella from becoming a vampire by sucking the venom out of her wound, and she is treated at a hospital, using the story that she fell out of a window as an excuse.Īfter they return to Forks, Edward takes her to the school prom, as Edward did not want Bella to miss any normal human experience because of him. James attacks her, but before he can kill her, she is rescued by Edward and the other Cullens who kill James. When she arrives, she finds that the hostage claim was a ruse. Bella sneaks out and hurries to save her mother. James calls Bella and claims to be holding her mother hostage. Bella and Edward are forced to separate as Bella escapes with Alice and Jasper (Edward's brother and sister) to hide in a hotel in Phoenix. James, a tracker vampire, who is intrigued by Cullen's relationship with a human, wants to hunt Bella for sport. Their relationship is affected when a nomad vampire coven arrives in Forks. He tries to stay away from Bella to avoid hurting her, but over time, Edward and Bella fall in love. Edward confirms her belief and confesses that Bella's blood is more desirable to him than anyone else's and he wanted to kill her on the first day of school.
On the way, she tells him she knows that he is a vampire. Furious, Edward drives Bella away and takes her to a restaurant for dinner and then back home. She compares the characteristics of the vampires in mythology to the Cullens and becomes convinced that Edward is a vampire.īella is saved by Edward again in Port Angeles when she is almost attacked by a group of men.
Disturbed and riddled by recurring nightmares, Bella researches vampires. She learns from stories told at a bonfire with his tribe that Edward and his family are "the cold ones" (vampires) who consume only animal blood. Bella questions Edward about how he saved her life but he refuses to tell her anything.ĭuring a campout, Bella meets Jacob Black, a local boy from the Quileute tribe. Edward saves Bella, narrowly stopping the van with his bare hands. Their newfound relationship is interrupted after Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot. He disappears for a few days but when he returns, he is unexpectedly friendly to Bella. On the first day of her school, Bella sits next to Edward in biology class, but he seems to be utterly repulsed by her, much to her bewilderment. A somewhat inexperienced and shy girl, Bella is dismayed by several boys competing for her attention. Bella is admitted to Forks High School, where she easily settles in with a group of friends. Her mother, Renée Dwyer, is traveling with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor-league baseball player. In 2020, Meyer released Midnight Sun, a retelling of the story of Twilight from the perspective of Edward Cullen.īella Swan is a seventeen-year-old introvert girl who moved from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington on the Olympic Peninsula to live with her father, Charlie Swan, the town's police chief.
In October 2015, Stephenie Meyer announced a new gender-swapped version of the novel, entitled Life and Death: Twilight Reimagined, with characters Beau and Edythe, in honor of the 10th anniversary of The Twilight Saga. Īs of 2008, Twilight had been translated into 37 different languages. The book was the biggest-selling of 2008 in 2009, it was the second-biggest selling, losing only to its sequel New Moon. The film adaptation, released in 2008, was a commercial success, grossing more than $392 million worldwide and making an additional $157 million in North American DVD sales as of July 2009. The novel was named one of Publishers Weekly's Best Children's Books of 2005. It reached number five on the New York Times bestseller list within a month of its release and eventually reached first place. Others criticized Meyer's prose and argued the story was lacking in character development. Some praised the novel's tone and its portrayal of common teenage emotions such as alienation and rebellion.
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Additional novels in the series are New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn. She is endangered after falling in love with Edward Cullen, a 103-year-old vampire frozen in his 17-year-old body.
It is the first book in the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington. Twilight (stylized as twilight) is a 2005 young adult vampire- romance novel by author Stephenie Meyer.
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