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Overview

Twilight is a story about Bella Swan, who moves to the small town of Forks after her mother remarries. She hates the rain but at least she fits in better in Forks than she did in her huge high school in Phoenix, Arizona.

Bella is a girl who decides to go to school for the first time. On her first day, she runs into Edward Cullen and his friends. They’re all good-looking and seem uninterested in other people. Bella is attracted to Edward’s looks but he seems hostile towards her at first. He warns her that it would be better if she didn’t talk to him or even try getting close because it would only lead to trouble.

One day, Bella almost gets crushed by an out of control minivan. She is saved by a mysterious man who appears out of nowhere and throws her to safety. Although she doesn’t know how he did it, she sees him across the parking lot before the crash occurs.

When Bella and some of her schoolmates take a trip to the beach, she meets Jacob Black, who is Billy Black’s son. He tells her that his people have legends about vampires being in their area, but they don’t feed on humans.

Bella is suspicious that Edward might be right, but she decides to give him the benefit of the doubt. She confronts him about it and he tells her what she wants to know. He explains that’s why he can’t be with her—even though he doesn’t hunt humans, Bella’s blood smells too good for him to resist.

She can’t stay away from him because she has fallen in love with him. Likewise, even though it would hurt them both if they were together, he loves her so much that there is no way for either one of them to let go of what they feel for each other.

There’s a scene in the movie where Edward takes Bella to watch him and his family play baseball. They are attacked by another vampire, James, who hunts Bella because he can smell her blood.

Bella decides to leave with the Cullens after they come up with a plan to save her mother. James tricks Bella into going alone, and he almost kills her, but Edward arrives in time. Edward sucks some of Bella’s blood out without killing her.

Bella gets better, and Edward takes her to the prom. She asks him if he’ll turn her into a vampire so they can be together forever, but he says no because she has another choice: family.

Preface and Chapter 1

Twilight starts with a female narrator who is facing off against a smiling hunter. She finds the prospect of death terrifying, but she doesn’t regret what’s led her to this noble death because she’s willing to die in place of someone she loves. The first chapter opens as Bella boards the plane and heads for Forks, Washington. It rains more than anywhere else in America, and it was where she was born. However, when Bella was only one year old her mother left with her and they moved away from there until age fourteen when Bella insisted that they move somewhere sunny instead of rainy so he started meeting them someplace sunnier instead every summer since then.

Now seventeen, Bella has decided to move back to Forks with her father. Her mother doesn’t want her to go, but she says that she wants to. She gets on the plane and five hours later lands in Port Angeles where her father is waiting for her.

Bella and Charlie drive to Forks. During the car ride, Bella learns that Charlie has already found her a new car: an old pickup truck that his friend Billy Black is willing to sell at a discounted price. However, Billy can no longer drive because he’s in a wheelchair now. When Charlie tells Bella that he bought it for her as a gift, she accepts it and loves it immediately when she sees it.