Twilight

Meyer, S. (2008). Twilight. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Award: New York Times Bestseller

Exposition: Bella leaves Phoenix and comes to live with her dad in Washington state. She makes friends with a few of the students at the local high school, but more specifically with Edward Cullen.

Conflict: Bella becomes enamored with Edward. He tries to discourage her due to the fact that she is human and he is a vampire, which causes problems later in the book and series.

Rising Action: Bella and Edward continue to get to know each other and their families. Edward tries to show Bella the ways of vampires and how it wouldn’t work between the two of them.

Climax: James, another vampire, loors Bella back to Phoenix with the intent of killing her not only for revenge but to get back at Edward.

Falling Action: While at an abandoned dance studio James bites Bella and Edward eventually kills James.

Resolution: Edward and Bella back in Washington attend the prom. Bella wants to become a vampire to be with Edward, but he refuses.

Literary qualities: The book has a lot of foreshadowing, imagery, and symbolism throughout. The original covers (before the movie version) also showed symbolism as seen in the apple. Bella plays with an apple in the lunch room when trying to decide what to do concerning Edward. Biblically an apple is a symbol of temptation. Throughout the book the Cullens are compared to various animals; Edward is compared to a cheetah and Alice to a gazelle. This may help in providing imagery to the reader and as symbolism as well.