The selection I chose was "Twilight".
In the first chapter of this selection we are introduced to
the character Bella Swan. She is moving from the sunny Phoenix, Arizona to the
rainy town of Forks, Washington. She is making this bold decision so her mom,
Renee, can experience true happiness with her fiancé Phil; a baseball player
who keeps getting transferred. Although she is making this sacrifice to go and
live with her father, Charlie, in the isolated town she truly doesn't want to
go. Bella arrives to the town where she reunites with her father after a few
years of absence and adjusts to her new life. On the car ride home Charlie and
Bella chit chat over the years they’ve missed and catch up on recent events in
the town. When they get to the house, she notices that much hasn’t changed from
her childhood home, except that her room has been adjusted for her current age.
Charlie does his best to make sure that all of Bella's needs are met so she can
have a comfortable stay. Upon her
arrival she reunites with a childhood friend, Jacob Black, whose father, Billy
Black, sells Charlie a truck for Bella. Even though it’s an old pick-up truck,
Bella accepts it with pride. My personal reaction to reading this story was
that she is a brave soul for putting her mother’s happiness before her own. If
I had the option of my type of note-taking for this story it would be listing.
Only because so many things are happening and it's important to keep it in
chronological order.
