By: Ivy Dahl

Summary:

Chapter seven of ‘Twilight’ begins with Bella having a nightmare where she’s at La Push, the beach she was at in the last chapter, seeing Jacob transforming into a wolf to attack Edward.

She awakes from this nightmare extremely confused, and with her mind full of questions that won’t let her sleep, so she decides to research on her computer. She starts by typing just one word: vampire. She sifts through websites, many of the things she read seeming like they were just stories for kids. But there were a couple of legends that stuck out to her.

Overwhelmed by her thoughts, Bella decided to go on a hike in the woods outside her house to clear her head. It was dark and eerie outside, just like it had been in her dream and when she came across a fallen down tree log, she sat on it like a bench. She thought in a place like this it seemed more reasonable to believe vampires existed. Everything about Edward aligned with him being a vampire including the way he talked so formally, as if from a different time. Also, his impossible strength and his constant reassurance that he’s too dangerous to be around. And even knowing all this, Bella knew one thing even more: she still wanted to be near him.

With her thoughts finally clear, Bella returned to her house, finished some homework and drifted back off to sleep.

When she wakes up the next morning, she’s in a much better mood because of the clarity from last night. This good mood follows her to school, where she decides to sit outside while drawing since it’s sunny. Mike approaches her and tries to use her good mood to his advantage by hitting on her, but she turns him down and tells him to ask Jessica out instead.

Bella goes to lunch and sees that not only is Edward missing, but his entire family is. She’s so bummed out by this that when Jessica invites Bella to go dress shopping in Port Angeles, she just mumbles an agreement.

When Bella gets home, Jessica calls her to tell her the trip is postponed to tomorrow because Mike asked her out.

The chapter ends with her and her friends leaving for Port Angeles the next day.

Review:

This chapter is supposed to be the big realization about Edward, yet afterwards it doesn’t feature him at all or have any kind of confrontation with him about what Bella thinks she realized. Instead, it just features her talking to her friends at school about stuff that isn’t really related, which makes it fall flat and lessens the impact of it on the plot. I’d give it a 5/10.

This is my last ‘Twilight’ chapter review, and I know there is quite a lot of book left, so if you have a lot of time, I would suggest you read the rest of the book! If you don’t have a lot of time, you can watch the movie.