Freestyle #5

A few months back I had the pleasure of reading, for the second time, New Moon. (I figured I hadn't written a blog yet about one of my favorites as of late, so it was due.) My favorite part of this book is when the main characters, Bella and Edward, break up. If you haven't read this(which would be terribly sad) then you would know that Bella is so in love with Edward that she would do absolutely anything for him, and that he is also just as crazy about her. However, Edward is a vampire and Bella is just a human, so you can see some of the tension there. The line that gets me most worked up is when Edward says, "You can go on with your life without any more interference from me. It will be as if I'd never existed" (pg. 71). First off, this is so sad! Why would he do this to her, he claims it's for the sake of her living a normal life, but he didn't need to be so cold. And then, do men really think that by saying "if I'd never existed" will make a break up any easier? NO! It just makes it that much harder to know that they don't want to remember you. This is the most important part of the book, it sets up the rest of the plot and also puts that dark foreshadowing on the following chapters. It may be morbid, but I find something truly fascinating about this scene. It's much more than just his line, and it brings me back to those moments when I had to deal with break ups...glad I'm married now! But I really think that this line does show how much Edward cares for Bella, even though he's leaving her. He wanted her to still be happy without him. Despite it being a break up, people don't just stop caring that fast, and it shows in this part of the book.