New Moon (Stephenie Meyer)

Name : Hoh Tjin Li

Class : S4A

School Num. : 08160

Book Call Num. : F MEY C2

Book Title : New Moon

Author : Stephenie Meyer

Publication Year/ (Edition) : 2008

Setting

The small, rainy town where Bella lives is in Forks, Washington. It is the main setting throughout the whole series. While Italy, is where the Volturi live. There, Bella rushes over with Alice to stop Edward from killing himself.
In this book- New Moon, one of the main setting is Jacob's house- Where Bella is most of the time after Edward leaves. She spends time mostly in Jacob's garage, watching him work on his car.

Synopsis of Characters

Bella

When Edward leaves her, Bella is destroyed emotionally and spends the next several months in a deep depression after a birthday party for Bella goes horribly wrong. Her life was put in danger. After renewing her childhood friendship with Jacob Black, she begins to feel alive again.

Edward Cullen

Edward decided to leave Forks with his family so they wouldn't be able to hurt her. After keeping tabs on Bella through his sister Alice's visions, he learns that she has fallen to her death, but Alice doesn't realise yet that she can't see everything, and it's a race against time to save Edward from the biggest mistake of his life. He returned because he realized he cannot live without her.

Jacob Black

Jacob is also hiding a supernatural secret himself. He's a member of the Quileute tribe, and as he hits puberty, he discovers he's inherited the genes that turn him into an enormous, powerful wolf – part of a pack that protects the tribe from vampires. Instantly Edward and Jacob become natural enemies, but with one common aim - to protect Bella.

Conflict

Edward leaves Bella, after Jasper attacks her and tells her that he does not want her anymore. She starts to spend time with Jacob and finds out he's a werewolf. Bella jumps off a cliff, not suicide, but just for fun. Alice saw that, and comes back to forks to console Charlie as she thinks Bella is dead. Edward calls and Jacob told Edward that Charlie is at "the funeral".

Conclusion

At the end of New Moon, Bella went off with Alice to save Edward in Italy. The Volturi at first say that Bella can't leave because she knows too much about vampires but Alice and Edward promise Bella will be changed soon. They go back to Washington. When they get back, Jacob has returned Bella's motorcycle, and when Charlie sees it, he gets really mad and grounds Bella.

After that the Cullen family vote for whether Bella should become a vampire takes place, and since the majority says yes, Edward loses his temper. He eventually offers to change her if they marry, which she freaks out at, because she remembers how her parents' young marriage was like.

Opinion

Actually, in my personal opinion, this book is educational in the way that it teaches young women not to be so emotionally dependent on their boyfriends because of the way it can feel like "your world is ending" when you break up. Besides it would be a good topic for a mother to talk to her daughter, after they both read it, about how those kinds of relationships can be so self-destructive.