Misunderstandings lead to a happy ending . . . . Eventually!!

           In the novel New Moon by Stephenie Meyer the reader fallows Bella, a young girl who has all but lost the will to live after being dumped by her vampire boyfriend Edward Cullen after his vampire brother, Jasper, nearly kills her on her eighteenth birthday. At first she goes throw the motions, simply fallowing the pattern of day-to-day life, “She went back to school and work, she ate and slept and did her homework.  She answered when someone asked her a direct question. But she was . . . empty.”(396)  After about three months, she is told that she will be sent to live with her mom because her dad has no idea how to help her move on. Desperate to

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prove him wrong she begins spend time with her friends. She finds a small amount of happiness spending time with Jacob Black, a boy from the nearby Indian reservation La Push. Bella and Jacob have a lot of fun together riding motorcycles hiking. What Bella doesn’t tell Jacob is that the real reason that she wants to do all these dangerous stunts is because when she is doing something reckless she has delusions in which she hears Edward scolding her. About halfway through the story, Jacob expresses that he would like to be more than just friends—a sentiment that Bella does not share—and though he says it makes no difference to him he then stops talking to Bella for about two weeks.  It takes only a few hints from Jacob and a dream for Bella to realize what is happening to her friend, he has become a werewolf just like the ancient legions of his people talked about. Once “the wolf’s out of the bag” (328) Jacob and Bella’s relationship returns to some semblance of normal except that he is now hunting down Victoria, a vampire that is determined to kill Bella with the rest of his pack of werewolf friends. One day when Bella is wondering along First Beach on La Push, she decides that she wants to jump off the cliff (purely for recreational purposes) and nearly drowns. Jacob reaches her in time to save her but not before Alice, Edwards’s future seeing vampire sister, sees her die. Edward hears the news second hand from his sister Rose only she tells him that Bella is dead. Edward decides that life is not worth living if Bella is not alive and runs off to the Volturi, a group of vampires that he hopes will help him die. Alice and Bella race to Italy to stop him and bring him back. They secede but the Volturie tell Edward, Alice, and Bella that Bella must be turned into a Vampire or they will kill her. They all return to Forks and Edward tells her hat the only reason he left was so that she would be safe from him and his family and that he still loves her. The decision is made that Bella will be changed once she has finished high school and moved out of her dads house.