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A couple of things I'd like to ask Mrs. Meyers. And hey, if anybody knows the answers, I'd love to hear them.
**May contain spoilers. Please read no further if you don't want to be spoiled on certain points. Although, I've only read the first two books - how much can I spoil?**
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1. A big deal is made of Bella being impervious to the vampires' powers. The Volturi's powers don't work on her, Edward's doesn't. But in actuality, Alice's power technically works - she CAN see Bella's future. Not only that, but so does Jasper's. So - is she or isn't she? (maybe this is answered in the 3rd book)
2. It was said in one of the books (by Edward, I think) that vampires are the perfect predators. That everything about them is designed to lure people in. Their amazing beauty, their mesmerizing powers, their wonderful breath (which, btw, if I had to hear about how wonderful Edward's breath smelled one more time, I was going to throw up), etc. Even their sparkliness. Although, if I saw someone sparkling in the sun like a diamond, I think I'd fucking run the other way. Anyway, to the question...if they naturally draw people to them, then why is it that the entire school basically avoids them? Why aren't they fawning all over themselves, over and over again, to get near these people?
3. Oh, one more. This really is just curiosity. How attractive were all these vampires before they were turned? Like how much extra "oomph" does being a vampire give you? OH! And why was James described as plain? I thought all vampires were gorgeous. (SMyers certainly forced that nugget down my throat enough.)
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One: Alice and Jasper's powers work because they influence her on the outside. She's got some sort of mental shields (which seriously, belongs in a comic book.) which prevents any of the others' powers from getting in. Jasper can influence the situation and Alice can I don't know, use some sort of physical signature to see how their future unfolds. Which is why she can't see the werewolves.
Two: Yeah, why don't the other kids fall over the vampires? Better yet, as a Washington resident I can say with total certaintly that even on days when it rains in sheets for hours at a time, the sun can come out in a split second. Why has this never been a problem for the Cullens?
Three: In Breaking Dawn, Smeyer goes on for several pages about how a vampire gets changed physically. I don't want to spoil it for you, since I'm not sure if you've read the book yet.
So, I hope you find this somewhat helpful. If you have any other questions, feel free to direct them towards me. I currently teach 13-17 year old girls how to swim, and I cannot tell you how often these books come up. There are days when I think the word Twilight is going to send me into a killing spree that would give new definition to the term.
So your students are all about Twilight, huh? You poor thing. Like I said, I found the first one interesting, but the second one blew it for me. Seeing as I'll never read more than that, could you please spoil it for me and tell me about the physical change? I'm so curious about that...
The kids and I keep having the same conversation.
Child One: OMG! (unintelligible squeal) Edward is so super hot.
Child Two: I'd fuck him into the ground!
Me: How old are you?
Child Two: Old enough to know what I want!
Me: You know the Cullens are fictional characters, right?
Child Three: Yeah... (sad sigh)
Child One, Two, or Three: But he's still totally perfect!
Right, major spoilers ahead.
Okay, I want to start off the explanation by asking if you've ever seen the Interview With the Vampire movie? If not, google some pictures of creepy little Kirsten Dunst. She's flawless and CREEPY. So Breaking Dawn starts off with Bella and Edwards wedding. They get hitched within 30 pages. Then they head off to honeymoon someplace in the Carribean.
The Cullens have an island. I know, shocking. So Bella tricks Edward into sleeping with her, and then starts getting sick. Edward rushes her home, and it cuts to the middle part of the book. Part One is from Bellas p.o.v., two is from Jacob's and three is Bella's again. So it cuts to Jacob's, and he hears that Bella is home but Charlie can't get in to see her and the Cullens keep saying she's too sick to have visitors. Stomach virus. So Jacob rushes out to Casa de Cullen to see if they've made her a Vampire, which they haven't.
Instead she's pregnant. There's a huge portion of the book dedicated to why Vampire Children are a bad thing. Also the parasite baby is feeding off her, so the Cullens want to kill it. Bella incites the help of Rosalie for protection. Jacob (the true alpha wolf) and Seth (and eventually Seth's sister Leah) bust off from the La Push werewolf pack and head out to the Cullens to protect Bella.
The kid rips it's way out, Bella starts to massively bleed, Edward gives her the venom and Jacob goes downstairs to snap the kid's neck.
Back to Bella's p.o.v. She's going through the horrible pain all the vampires go through, except they gave her morphine for the birth, so she can't move her body but she's in horrendous agony. Then she wakes up as a vampire, but no surprise, Bella's like the best vampire ever.
I'm just sort of paraphrasing Smeyer here, but Bella's skin has toughened (to the point where later when she's wrestling a moutain lion, she doesn't even get a scratch), she's all glittery, and her vision is so advanced she can pick up red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, indigo, and a new shiny color she has no name for. Essentially it seems like she hardens into her ideal body, and her change reflects that. Her skin is tight and hard. All her old physical scars are completely gone. Her hair's all shiny and beautiful. Also, she's not prone to the violent attacks of newborn vampires.
Honestly I'm not sure how much of it is a phsyical change and how much of it is just psychological. It seems to be about half, but hey, I only read it once.
Right, but her kid is physically perfect. She's very Kirsten Dunst from Interview with the Vampire. A tiny perfect doll that grows at a freaky rate. Aging by three-five inches every day. Also she's Jacob's... mate? Jacob imprints on her and can't kill her. They all love her, and she loves them all. It's very touching.
But the kid is described as the perfect halfway point. Her skin is shiny, but it doesn't glitter like the full vampires. She has a heartbeat. She's warm-blooded, her physical features are perfect and doll-like. Her eyes are the exact same shade as Bella's old eyes were.
Does that help?