Welcome To Wet and Soggy



(Photograph. Forks)



 Setting 

The main setting of New Moon is the tiny town of Forks and the nearby Indian reservation of La Push located on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State where it rains "more than any other place in the United States of America (Meyer Twilight, 3)." Because the book is written from Isabella Swan's perspective—a girl who is use to sunshine and the brown on brown desert landscape that surrounded her home in Phoenix, Arizona—the overabundance

  

(Second Beach)

of green foliage that make up the forest that surrounds everything and the ever-present thick cloud cover are presented as oppressive and almost

alien. One place that is described in great detail in this book is First Beach which is described as being a small, moon shaped stretch of land covered in multicolored, sooth stones, strewn with driftwood that has been bleached white by the salt water, and

(Photograph. Volterra)

 bordered on either side by high, rocky cliffs. She spends a lot of time walking this beach and several of the most important scenes in New Moon use this  

peaceful place as a background.The other place that a portion of this story is set is the hilltop city of Volterra, Italy.This ancient city is enclosed by high rock walls that, in the state of mind that the characters enter it, make it seem like a prison. It is also sunny hear, which as a change of pace for the main character, a bad thing because it symbolizes impending doom.