Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Grew up… on the Quileute tribe’s La Push reservation in Washington state. Jacob grew up with his mother, father, and two sisters. Unfortunately, his mother died when he was nine, and his sisters moved away, so now it’s just him and his dad.
Living… on the reservation, where he also attends school. Jacob isn’t a stranger to neighboring town Forks, though. His dad and the Forks sheriff, Charlie Swan, are friends, and Jacob used to play with the sheriff's daughter, Bella, when they were younger. Still, he spends most of his time hanging out on the reservation with his friends there.
Profession… student. His dad seems to think that it’s Jacob’s job to warn Bella to stay away from the Cullens, though. Jacob's a bit more awkward about it, telling Bella, “He said to tell you, no, to warn you, that — and this is his plural, not mine, ‘We’ll be watching.’ ”
Interests… fixing up old motorcycles and cars. Jacob has a knack for machinery: he sells Bella a car he rehabbed, and later on he makes her a motorcycle.
Relationship Status… crushing on Bella, although she seems to see them as nothing more than old friends.
Challenge… getting closer to Bella despite his dad’s cryptic warnings about the Cullens, who have taken her in. Some of his friends have also been acting weird lately, disappearing at odd times and acting secretive. Jacob doesn’t believe in any kind of superstitious stuff, but something is definitely going on.
Personality…friendly, carefree, and childish. Jacob is very much a young teenager: shy around girls, rebellious with his friends, and uncertain about who he wants to be. His outgoing personality is charming, even if he isn’t always very poised.
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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.
