Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew up… with her mother in Phoenix, Arizona. Bella's mother and father split when she was young, and her father now lives in Forks, Washington.
Living… in Forks, with her dad. After Bella’s mother fell in love with a professional baseball player, Bella moved in with her father to let her mom travel with her boyfriend. But Forks is a tiny, rainy town, and Bella’s not thrilled about the change from major city Phoenix to middle-of-nowhere Forks.
Profession… student. Bella’s always been good at school, because she spends a lot of time reading, and because she wants to become a teacher. Classes in Forks are easy, so she spends most of her time in school with a group of outsiders. But Bella's not as interested in them as she is in the mysterious Cullen family, especially the beautiful Edward Cullen. Seeing them, Bella says, “I felt a surge of pity, and relief. Pity because, as beautiful as they were, they were outsiders, clearly not accepted. Relief that I wasn’t the only newcomer here, and certainly not the most interesting by any standard.”
Interests… books and music. She likes to be alone.
Relationship Status… single, which is good news to the boys of her new school. Bella's more interested in Edward, though. Sadly, he doesn’t seem to want to be her classmate, much less her friend.
Challenge… getting close to Edward and discovering the Cullens' secrets. Fitting in at her new school isn’t easy, either, and it doesn’t help that Bella’s father is Forks’s sheriff.
Personality…responsible, quiet, but determined. Bella’s clumsiness and outsider status should make her more cautious, but her curiosity tends to overcome any sense of self-preservation. She thinks of it as her job to help her parents and protect her friends, even though it often ends up the other way around. While Bella is quiet, she isn’t shy, and has a sarcastic streak when provoked.
Get to Know her in...
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Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
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Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
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When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't help but fall in love with him, a fatal move that endangers her own life when a coven of bloodsuckers try to challenge the Cullen clan.
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The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal. But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle.
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After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
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Raphael Lipkin is a man obsessed. He hears voices. He talks to ghosts. He is spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York—not as a patient, but as a visiting professional with a secret, personal quest. A professor of literature and a Holocaust survivor, Raphael, having rebuilt his life since the war, sees it on the verge of coming apart once more. He longs to talk to Pedro, the man who rescued him as a fifteen-year-old orphan from postwar Poland and brought him to Paris, becoming his friend, mentor, hero, and savior. But Pedro disappeared inside the prisons of Stalin's Russia shortly after the war. Where is Pedro now, and how can Raphael discern what is true and what is false without him? A mysterious nighttime caller directs Raphael's search to the Mountain Clinic, a unique asylum for patients whose delusions spring from the Bible. Amid patients calling themselves Adam, Cain, Abraham, Joseph, Jeremiah, and God, Raphael searches for Pedro's truth and the meaning of his own survival in a novel that penetrated the mysteries of good, evil, and madness.
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A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
