Bella Swan

Summary Bella Swan is a 17-year-old girl who has lived in Phoenix, Arizona, with her mother, her entire life. After her mother remarries, she moves to Forks, Washington, to live with her father. Although she is very shy, she seems to make friends very easily at her new high school. On her first day of school, she takes a seat next to a handsome, yet extremely reserved boy named Edward Cullen. As soon as Bella sits down, Edward gets up and leaves, trying his hardest to avoid her. Bella finds his

Bella Swan moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie. She is not happy about this move but she knows her mom wants to follow her new husband who is a minor league baseball player. Fortunately for Bella she is welcomed into Forks High School and makes friends quite easily. The only weird thing about the school that she notices are the five Cullen siblings: Edward, Alice, Emmett, Rosalie Hale, and Jasper Hale. They are all adopted by the town doctor, Carlisle

October 5, 2015 Entering the Stereotypical Gender Ring: Bella Swan’s Passivity vs. Rosalie Hale’s Proactivity For my research project I have decided to choose a character from a popular book series, Twilight which was written by Stephenie Meyer. The forbidden love story between a plain human girl and a gorgeous vampire boy sparked the hearts of millions, but the singular character I’m conducting my research on is Rosalie Hale. While Bella Swan, the main character is passive, Rosalie Hale is proactive

Twilight. Twilight is about a teenage girl, a vampire, and a werewolf. Isabella Swan moved to a small town in the state of Washington and while there she fell in love with some supernatural beings. What Laing is saying about the mortality of humans is thrown out the window when vampires are involved, but the mortality of humans is still a major plot point in these books. Edward Cullen, Jacob Black, and Bella Swan are perceived as metaphors for the darker parts of mankind’s existence. Even though

Isabella Swan or “Bella” moves from sunny Phoenix, Arizona to rainy Forks, Washington to live with her father, Charlie, while her mother, Renée, travels with her new husband, Phil Dwyer, a minor league baseball player. She starts high school in her new town, she isn’t considered the new kid in school yet fits in as if so she always attended. Bella is seated next to Edward Cullen, who is a 109-year-old vampire who was transformed by Carlisle Cullen when he was near death with Spanish Influenza in

Twilight begins with the main character, Bella Swan. She is a girl from Phoenix, Arizona who is more pale than the people where she is from. She lives with her mother, Renee, who is marrying a man named Phil Dwyer. Bella feels that-due to Phil’s travelling job-she should live with her father, Charlie Swan, in a small city in Washington called Forks. When Bella moves in with her father, she begins to slowly become more comfortable around him than she was before. In Forks, she attends the local

Stephenie Meyer, the author of the Twilight Saga. Throughout the books, Bella Swan is a 17 year old girl who is moving in with her father, out of town. She soon meets the Cullen family, realizes they are vampires, and eventually becomes devoted to one of the males, Edward. During the course of the series, Bella is overly emotional about a variety of things, most of the time she is considered to be overreacting. It is clear that Bella needs help with almost everything she does, she even comes off as the

written by Stephenie Meyer was the first part of a four book series that begun in 2005. The story begins with a girl and a vampire falling in love, and was the first series in a while to bring vampires back into the lime light. The girl, Elisabeth "Bella" Swan and the vampire Edward Cullen, have a complicated love that although they are destined to be together, everything is working against them to do otherwise. Throughout the work of literature, although it is a modern day love story, Twilight displays

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer follows Bella Swan through her romance with the vampire Edward Cullen. However, the novel is extremely harmful, especially to its young adult audience. Twilight's use of sexist stereotypes for its main characters and the portrayal of them as “ideal” makes it necessary to censor. From the first chapter of Twilight, Bella Swan is placed into the traditional stereotype of a damsel in distress. In this stereotype, the woman is a delicate beauty. Bella fits this description, as she

isolated from the rest of the town because they are the newest citizens and live outside of the town isolated from everyone else. When Bella Swan invited Edward Cullen to come to the beach with her group of friends he declined feeling like he would not be wanted there. One of the characters, Angela, had this to say while they were at the beach, “It was nice that Bella invited Edward, nobody ever does.” This is what Mike had to say in response, “That’s because Cullen is a freak.” The other male characters