Outside Reading Assignment #2

I am still reading New Moon by Stephanie Meyer (p. 53-84).

"It will be as if I'd never existed, he'd promised me" (Meyer 84). This quote is at the very end of the reading that I did and is an incite to what this section was about. As I have written in previous posts, Edward and Bella are boyfriend and girlfriend who are in love. Their relationship is difficult because Edward belongs to a family of vampires and is a vampire himself. In this section Edward starts to feel that he can no longer be with Bella. He feels that them being together is no longer in Bella's best interest, so he decides to leave. He comes to this conclusion because, like I said in my last post, Edward's brother Jasper attacks Bella and cuts her arm very badly. Edward realizes that he doesn't want Bella to get hurt and the only way that he can make sure of that is if he and his family leave Forks. He does end of leaving, but after he does, bella tries to follow him through the woods. She ends up getting lost and spends the whole night on the forest floor. She is found the next morning by one of the people of the search team that was made to find her.
In the quote it explains that Edward claims that it will be like he never existed. Bella knows she will never forget him. Edward on the other hand wants her to move on, so he literally takes action about erasing himself from her memories. Edward takes all of the pictures from Bella's scrapbook, so that she will not be able to look at him and dwell on what they had together. Bella doesn't want to forget him, but she realizes that Edward wants her to forget him.