We know how Bella has some serious issues about aging because each سال she ages, she becomes one سال “older” than Edward. Her fear of aging is borderline neurotic, but it all seems to stem from not wanting to appear older than Edward. I’d always had a hard time understanding this – after all, Edward is well over 100 years old – he just doesn’t look it. And I always thought “So what if Bella becomes a few years ‘older’ than Edward in appearance? No one’s going to be able to tell!” But I suppose it’s a big deal to Bella. To this day, I don’t understand that fear....
So anyway, I compared two passages that caught my attention when I was thinking about Bella and her fear of aging. One is from Bella’s dream (or nightmare) about growing old with Edward, if she remained human. The other passage is of her thoughts of what she’s giving up سے طرف کی deciding not to be – and grow old – with Jacob.
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Edward - still smiling so beautifully that my دل felt like it was going to swell up and burst through my chest - put his arm around my shoulder and turned to face my grandmother.
Gran's expression surprised me. Instead of looking horrified, she was staring at me sheepishly, as if waiting for a scolding. And she was standing in such a strange position - one arm held awkwardly away from her body, stretched out and then curled around the air. Like she had her arm around someone I couldn't see, someone invisible...
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With a dizzying jolt, my dream abruptly became a nightmare.
There was no Gran.
That was me. Me in a mirror. Me - ancient, creased, and withered.
Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly beautiful and forever seventeen.
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As if I were looking through the filter of Jacob's thoughts, I could see exactly what I was giving up, exactly what this new self-knowledge would not save me from losing... I could see years passing, and meaning something as they passed, changing me. I could see the enormous red-brown بھیڑیا that I loved, always standing as protector if I needed him. For the tiniest fragment of that second, I saw the bobbing heads of two, small black-haired children, running away from me into the familiar forest....
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In the first passage, we see Bella’s obvious fear of turning into a wrinkly grandmother while the love of her life, Edward, remains forever youthful. I personally thought it was romantic notion that Edward would remain with Bella even in her old age, and that, when she passes away, he’d find away to end his ‘life’. I found it to be an endearing and cute thought, but maybe I’m just twisted? *ROFL* Bella obviously didn’t like it. “Granny Bella” (in the dream) appears to be sheepish – seemingly ashamed of her old age – while standing اگلے to a young Edward.
Now in the سیکنڈ passage, Jake is obviously presumed to still be phasing and therefore does not age. In Bella’s thoughts, she already has two small children with him which means that she is at least 7 years older (maybe?) than Jacob (she’s already 2-3 years older than him to start with). Here, she is getting older while Jacob remains 16 years old (even though he “appears” to be 25). Bella saw what she was giving up. It was a life she could have been happy in, had the world been a normal place.
This was what I wondered as I compared these two passages:
Why is it that she was capable of picturing herself happy with Jacob even if she was aging, while she considered it a “nightmare” that she was aging when she was with Edward?
Each سال passing (with Jacob) and “meaning something as they passed” must indicate that there is some kind of happiness there. She also expressed “losing” that future, indicating that there is some form of regret – though not enough – about the future she is giving up سے طرف کی not choosing Jacob. So if Bella can picture herself happy in either scenario (although I’m sure her happiness with Jacob would seem like a tiny drop compared to what she thinks is going to be her happiness with Edward), then why the difference in perception of aging?
To me, this seemed to be yet another example of the unconditional kind of relationship that Jacob and Bella has – regardless of it being friendship یا something مزید than that. Why does Bella put this “condition” that she must not age if she were to be with Edward??
So anyway, I compared two passages that caught my attention when I was thinking about Bella and her fear of aging. One is from Bella’s dream (or nightmare) about growing old with Edward, if she remained human. The other passage is of her thoughts of what she’s giving up سے طرف کی deciding not to be – and grow old – with Jacob.
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Edward - still smiling so beautifully that my دل felt like it was going to swell up and burst through my chest - put his arm around my shoulder and turned to face my grandmother.
Gran's expression surprised me. Instead of looking horrified, she was staring at me sheepishly, as if waiting for a scolding. And she was standing in such a strange position - one arm held awkwardly away from her body, stretched out and then curled around the air. Like she had her arm around someone I couldn't see, someone invisible...
...
With a dizzying jolt, my dream abruptly became a nightmare.
There was no Gran.
That was me. Me in a mirror. Me - ancient, creased, and withered.
Edward stood beside me, casting no reflection, excruciatingly beautiful and forever seventeen.
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As if I were looking through the filter of Jacob's thoughts, I could see exactly what I was giving up, exactly what this new self-knowledge would not save me from losing... I could see years passing, and meaning something as they passed, changing me. I could see the enormous red-brown بھیڑیا that I loved, always standing as protector if I needed him. For the tiniest fragment of that second, I saw the bobbing heads of two, small black-haired children, running away from me into the familiar forest....
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In the first passage, we see Bella’s obvious fear of turning into a wrinkly grandmother while the love of her life, Edward, remains forever youthful. I personally thought it was romantic notion that Edward would remain with Bella even in her old age, and that, when she passes away, he’d find away to end his ‘life’. I found it to be an endearing and cute thought, but maybe I’m just twisted? *ROFL* Bella obviously didn’t like it. “Granny Bella” (in the dream) appears to be sheepish – seemingly ashamed of her old age – while standing اگلے to a young Edward.
Now in the سیکنڈ passage, Jake is obviously presumed to still be phasing and therefore does not age. In Bella’s thoughts, she already has two small children with him which means that she is at least 7 years older (maybe?) than Jacob (she’s already 2-3 years older than him to start with). Here, she is getting older while Jacob remains 16 years old (even though he “appears” to be 25). Bella saw what she was giving up. It was a life she could have been happy in, had the world been a normal place.
This was what I wondered as I compared these two passages:
Why is it that she was capable of picturing herself happy with Jacob even if she was aging, while she considered it a “nightmare” that she was aging when she was with Edward?
Each سال passing (with Jacob) and “meaning something as they passed” must indicate that there is some kind of happiness there. She also expressed “losing” that future, indicating that there is some form of regret – though not enough – about the future she is giving up سے طرف کی not choosing Jacob. So if Bella can picture herself happy in either scenario (although I’m sure her happiness with Jacob would seem like a tiny drop compared to what she thinks is going to be her happiness with Edward), then why the difference in perception of aging?
To me, this seemed to be yet another example of the unconditional kind of relationship that Jacob and Bella has – regardless of it being friendship یا something مزید than that. Why does Bella put this “condition” that she must not age if she were to be with Edward??
this is my opinion just to let آپ know so I am going to speak out loud and tell آپ what I think about Renesme and Jacob,i mean seriously Jacob marked Renesme as a baby so he can marry her I mean really he only did that cause he fell in love with Bella and she married Edward so since he noticed Renesme was exactly like bella he fell in love with her as a baby and that's why he marked her and that's why he married her that's what I think I watched the ending and all that with Jacob and Renesme and Belle and Edward on thye ساحل سمندر, بیچ with Renesme holding Jacobs hand cause they just married that was crazy that he married her anyways, that's my opinion thx for reading!!!!!!!
It's all hats off now, all drum rolls and applause
سے طرف کی slight of the hand آپ will turn them into dust
A face to face آپ will lead them سے طرف کی the fall
A track fiend and the saw dust
You're allowed to stare it out
It’s all good luck charms
All trying to understand
Indeed inside me will always hope for worse
آپ say آپ keep them close by
They're closer than آپ think
A track fiend and the saw dust
You're allowed to stare it out
اگلے spring will bring آپ back again
You'll sigh and crack the whip for us
And maybe آپ will be the one
Who'll draw the line in the sand
For us to crawl
It's all past bats now
All painting gorgeous time
And maybe when the night comes
You'll open up the cage
You'll open up the cage
سے طرف کی slight of the hand آپ will turn them into dust
A face to face آپ will lead them سے طرف کی the fall
A track fiend and the saw dust
You're allowed to stare it out
It’s all good luck charms
All trying to understand
Indeed inside me will always hope for worse
آپ say آپ keep them close by
They're closer than آپ think
A track fiend and the saw dust
You're allowed to stare it out
اگلے spring will bring آپ back again
You'll sigh and crack the whip for us
And maybe آپ will be the one
Who'll draw the line in the sand
For us to crawl
It's all past bats now
All painting gorgeous time
And maybe when the night comes
You'll open up the cage
You'll open up the cage
Your lips are nettles
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter’s liquid
But your body’s pine
آپ love all sailors
But hate the beach
آپ say come touch me
But you’re always out of reach
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
Your arms are lovely
Yellow and rose
Your back’s a meadow
Covered in snow
Your thighs are thistles
And hot-house grapes
آپ breathe your sweet breath
And have me wait
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
I turn the lights out
I clean the sheets
آپ change the station
Turned up the heat
And now you’re sitting
Upon your chair
You’ve got me tangled up
Inside your beautiful black hair
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
Your tongue is wine
Your laughter’s liquid
But your body’s pine
آپ love all sailors
But hate the beach
آپ say come touch me
But you’re always out of reach
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
Your arms are lovely
Yellow and rose
Your back’s a meadow
Covered in snow
Your thighs are thistles
And hot-house grapes
آپ breathe your sweet breath
And have me wait
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
I turn the lights out
I clean the sheets
آپ change the station
Turned up the heat
And now you’re sitting
Upon your chair
You’ve got me tangled up
Inside your beautiful black hair
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour
In the dark آپ tell me of a flower
That only blooms in the بنفشی, وایلیٹ hour