Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew Up… the son of a pastor in 1640s London. His mother died giving birth to him. Carlisle and his father tried to rid the world of evil by hunting down vampires, werewolves, and other creatures, but eventually Carlisle was bitten himself. He hid from his father as he transformed into a vampire, but vowed never to hurt anyone.
Living… in Forks, Washington. Carlisle has perfected a “vegetarian” lifestyle, living off animal blood instead of humans. He’s gathered a family of like-minded vampires, and together they live a quiet life in the small, rainy town.
Profession… doctor. As the town sheriff says, “Dr. Cullen is a brilliant doctor who could probably work in any hospital in the world, make ten times the salary he gets here. We're lucky to have him.” Carlisle spent years perfecting his medical ability, and his ability to resist the lure of blood.
Interests… art and family. In fact, Carlisle spent many years as a patron of the arts.
Relationship Status… married to his loving wife Esme, whom he made a vampire. Esme and Carlisle serve as the “parents” to their “children,” Edward, Emmett, Jasper, Alice, and Rosalie.
Challenge… protecting the Cullens’ peaceful way of life. It’s hard to conceal that his family never age, never eat, and occasionally disappear for days. Not to mention that there are other supernatural forces opposing them.
Personality… calm, educated, and kind. Carlisle’s compassion for others is what has allowed him to live the peaceful life of a vegetarian. He tries his best to give his children guidance, using the wisdom he’s gained in his many years of life.
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Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger as Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob, knowing that her decision has the potential to ignite the ageless struggle between vampire and werewolf. With her graduation quickly approaching, Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.
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Forks, Washington resident Bella Swan is reeling from the departure of her vampire love, Edward Cullen, and finds comfort in her friendship with Jacob Black, a werewolf. But before she knows it, she's thrust into a centuries-old conflict, and her desire to be with Edward at any cost leads her to take greater and greater risks.
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When Bella Swan moves to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to live with her father, she starts school and meets the reclusive Edward Cullen, a mysterious classmate who reveals himself to be a 108-year-old vampire. Despite Edward's repeated cautions, Bella can't help but fall in love with him, a fatal move that endangers her own life when a coven of bloodsuckers try to challenge the Cullen clan.
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The new found married bliss of Bella Swan and vampire Edward Cullen is cut short when a series of betrayals and misfortunes threatens to destroy their world. Bella soon discovers she is pregnant, and during a nearly fatal childbirth, Edward finally fulfills her wish to become immortal. But the arrival of their remarkable daughter, Renesmee, sets in motion a perilous chain of events that pits the Cullens and their allies against the Volturi, the fearsome council of vampire leaders, setting the stage for an all-out battle.
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After the birth of Renesmee, the Cullens gather other vampire clans in order to protect the child from a false allegation that puts the family in front of the Volturi.
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Raphael Lipkin is a man obsessed. He hears voices. He talks to ghosts. He is spending the summer at the Mountain Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in upstate New York—not as a patient, but as a visiting professional with a secret, personal quest. A professor of literature and a Holocaust survivor, Raphael, having rebuilt his life since the war, sees it on the verge of coming apart once more. He longs to talk to Pedro, the man who rescued him as a fifteen-year-old orphan from postwar Poland and brought him to Paris, becoming his friend, mentor, hero, and savior. But Pedro disappeared inside the prisons of Stalin's Russia shortly after the war. Where is Pedro now, and how can Raphael discern what is true and what is false without him? A mysterious nighttime caller directs Raphael's search to the Mountain Clinic, a unique asylum for patients whose delusions spring from the Bible. Amid patients calling themselves Adam, Cain, Abraham, Joseph, Jeremiah, and God, Raphael searches for Pedro's truth and the meaning of his own survival in a novel that penetrated the mysteries of good, evil, and madness.
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A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
