New Moon Summary

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New Moon by Stephenie Meyers The Twilight Saga consists of four novels following the romance of a girl and a vampire. The second installment in the series is entitled New Moon. In this novel the girl, Bella, is abandoned by the love of her life Edward, the vampire. She then falls into the arms of her friend Jacob, a werewolf. Both the movie and the novel follow this basic plot, but of course the novel was more detailed. For the most part the movie was close to the book. New Moon is narrated in first person by Bella and has an obvious parallel with Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet because even Bella recognizes that she is in danger of playing out history’s greatest romantic tragedy. Keeping Romeo and Juliet in the forefront of the readers mind actually helps the author build the tension for the climax of the story because we can all see the tragedy that is waiting to happen. There wasn’t much narration on what Bella was feeling internally. This was shown when she was doing dangerous things just to “hear and see” Edward telling her to stop. In the novel she was telling herself to keep being dangerous and Edward was just a voice. In the movie Edward’s whole body is shown and Bella isn’t narrating everything she’s doing and why. The pain that Bella feels when Edward abandons her is extremely well written and is really what this story is about. Most of the things that happen to Bella in New Moon are as a result of the overwhelming loss that she is trying to bear. Her friendship with Jacob has a doomed quality to it not only because he obviously loves her while she is in love with Edward but because he is a werewolf and he naturally hates all vampires. Things are only getting more dangerous for Bella, but she doesn't care. Victoria, an evil vampire, then comes back to Forks avenging her mate James. She is fed up and wants to do something so reckless and
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