My pondering on the first few chapters.

In my ponderings I find that the question that comes to mind is how exactly Bella falls for Edward. Bella falls completely head over heels, and a huge personality switch happens as Meyers turns a strong female personality, into the more gothic style of the woman in need of help, and makes this switch far too quickly (within 5 chapters). It is this switch that leads me to the following conclusion as to how it is possible for this to happen, with some amount of logic.

The grounding for my reasoning comes from a few key lines that are said later in the book. As Bella draws closer to the Edwards, when he reviles himself to her as a vampire “I am the ultimate predator, I am made to attract you, designed to draw you in.” Informing her that she will be attracted to him, no matter what, just as everyone else that would be his “prey” would be.

Later Edwards tells Bella that she is his own type of personal “Heroin”; a drug that he can’t get enough of addicting, and craving her, fighting himself constantly to keep from hurting her. This keeps Edward close, and makes him value her must like an addict. These statements lead me to the following conclusion.

In the beginning, both Bella and Edward are in no way interested in each other until the sign were Edwards keeps Bella from being smashed between cars ( a rather intimate moment). After this point Bella begins to think only of Edward, and focus on school, and even her hate of Forks takes a back seat to how much time he takes up in her mind. This and the attention that Edwards pays to her after bluntly rejecting her, and even casting aside any chance of a friendship, shows that they simply took their first hits and were doomed. Handcuffed together in a way, the two grow on each other and become closer than other had come out of need for their drug.

The love that begins in Twilight between Bella and Edward can be seen as having started many ways, from a sexual tension breaking forth between two cold people, to a romantic swept off her feet love story. I beg to remind the reader, that should we take this in the gothic standing though, we see that Bella is attracted to a predator who wants to drain her of her blood, and he, simply can’t get around to it.