Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer #8

There was a whole chapter on Bella's pain and torture she was going through after Edward turned her into a vampire. It seemed like such excruciating pain and it baffles me that she overcame it. In chapter 19 Bella says, " Reality was red, it felt like I was being sawed in half, hit by a bus, punched by a prize fighter, trampled by bulls, and submerged in acid, all at the same time." (Meyer 369). This really shows how much pain she was enduring and her real feelings. Once she got over that stage of pain, Bella now fully understood what it was like to be a newborn vampire. She starts to notice things she has never noticed before, like the dust in the air and the individual grains in the hard wood ceiling. Many things that a mortal would not notice because their vision is just so dull. She talks about how she can't even control her movements and they are so fast that it seems as if her change in movement occurred instantaneously. Many questions started to pop up in her head, too. She says, " What about Jacob? Was he fine? Did me long-suffering best friend hate me now? Had he gone back to Sam's pack? Seth and Leah, too? Were the Cullens safe, or had my transformation ignited the war with the pack? Did Edward's blank assurance cover all of that? Or was he just trying to calm me?" (Meyer 291-292). These were just some of the many questions that Bella was asking herself. So what does she do now? Attack the Cullens, who are far more strong and less vulnerable than her, or does she give in and trust them? I think she will trust them because she loves Edward and his family and would never do anything to hurt them, but will she have the strength to? I will soon find out!