By: Ivy Dahl

Summary-

The sixth chapter of ‘Twilight’ begins with Bella going to the La Push beach with her friends from school, with some other local teens from the Quileute tribe joining their group. One of these teens is Jacob Black, Bella’s childhood friend who she remembers seeing when she used to visit her dad’s house in the summer, because his dad was friends with hers. When Bella mentions that she had invited Edward Cullen, one of Jacob’s friends looks grim before firmly stating that the Cullens don’t come there. Bella thinks back to Edward’s earlier immediate refusal of the beach trip and infers that he’s not allowed there.

Bella and Jacob end up breaking away from the group to go on a walk along the beach. Their conversation shifted towards Jacob telling her about “the cold ones”, a legend from his Quileute tribe. This legend stated that the Quileute tribe descended from werewolves, and that their one natural enemy were vampires, which they called “the cold ones”. The legend then continues that Jacob’s great grandfather made a treaty with a group of vampires who hunted animals instead of hunting humans, saying that if they stayed off Quileute land, they wouldn’t be exposed to society. This obviously immediately reminded her of the Cullen family. Jacob notices how enthralled she is and teases her for it, telling her it’s just a scary story. She half heartedly agrees. When they walk back to the rest of the group, Bella realizes that it’s already time to leave and their conversation has taken up more time then she thought.

Review-

This chapter is mostly just an information dump of hints about Edward’s true form for Bella, and features a long winded story, with little real life action happening to push things forward. This is supposed to be the moment in the book where Bella figures out what Edward really is, which I suppose is technically a climax, but since it’s given through long dialogue, in contrast to all the previous chapters which have been full of action, I’d say it’s kind of underwhelming. One positive aspect is that it introduces an important character, Jacob Black. I’d give it a 5/10.