FRIGHTENING SCENES
With vampires as some of the main characters, this novel is full of frightening scenes.
p.56 Bella is almost hit by a van in the school parking lot.
p.158-161 Bella is walking alone through a deserted part of town when she realizes a group of men have taken an interest in her. “…I realized with a shock that two men were walking quietly twenty feet behind me. They were from the same group I’d passed at the corner…A chill that had nothing to do with the weather made me shiver again…lounging against the…building, midway down the street, were the other two men from the group, both watching with excited smiles as I froze dead on the sidewalk. I realized then that I wasn’t being followed. I was being herded.”
p.378-379 In this passage, three traditional vampires who are passing through the area, come upon Edward and Bella as Edward’s family is playing a game of baseball. One of the outsiders catches a whiff of Bella’s scent and realizes she is human. He immediately assumes a predatory position and Edward responds with one of his own, preparing to protect Bella if necessary. “A swift rigidity fell on all of them as James lurched one step forward into a crouch. Edward bared his teeth, crouching in defense, a feral snarl ripping from his throat….it was the single most menacing thing I had ever heard, and chills ran from the crown of my head to the back of my heels.”
p.390-404 This entire chapter is very frightening for Bella. The Cullen family realizes that James is after Bella. The family is rushing around trying to get Bella out of town to safety to hide her until the others can hunt James down and kill him. James is close behind, a continual threat. “‘The tracker followed us. He’s running behind us now.’ My body went cold.”
p.427-430 Bella receives a phone call from the tracker. He tells her she must meet him in a specific location or he will kill her mother. Bella is terrified through the entire conversation. “My joints were frozen with terror …I had no choices now but one: to go to the mirrored room and die.”
p.443-451 “Terror seized me so strongly that I was literally trapped by it. I couldn’t make my feet move forward…. I was definitely sick now. There was pain coming, I would see it in his eyes. It wouldn’t be enough for him to win, to feed and go…Then he slumped forward, into a crouch I recognized, and his pleasant smile slowly widened, grew, till it wasn’t a smile at all but a contortion of teeth, exposed and glistening. I couldn’t help myself – I tried to run.”
