NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
We start with Bella moaning that thing that all woman have said at one point or another: I have nothing to wear. But in this case it's a little stupid. See, Bella is dressing for her graduation and apparently didn't buy a dress ahead of time like all other girls do because you know that would imply she's normal. So she's desperately searching for something dressy and evidently the only dressy thing she has is a khaki skirt...First, khaki skirts aren't very dressy. Second, that's the ONLY skirt she owns? What? Even I own more then one skirt and I don't even dress up that often (I take my que from Kristy Thomas and do the jeans and t-shirt route; if you don't know who Kristy Thomas is you didn't grow up during the nineties and haven't read The Baby-Sitters Club. Shame on you). Third, what about the dress she wore to the prom? Or to her birthday party? She couldn't wear those? Did she get rid of them or something? Then she thinks she knows she would have worn the red shirt that the vamps took and complains about that. But...I thought Meyer specifically said it was a SWEATSHIRT that got taken? Not a blouse? I think Meyer flubbed her own cannon yet again.
But fairy godmother Alice shows up and gives her a dress out of the blue. Wow. We should all have best friends like Alice. Got a special occasion? Have your BFF show up with a stylish number that will fit and look great on you. Seriously, I could have used her for my own prom...
Then as they talk something that's been bugging Bella (even though she never made mention of it that it bugged her but apparently it did) and she realizes, that the army isn't after the CULLENS. It's after HER! Um...okay. Because Bella is just that hard to get rid of, you see...Victoria needs a whole army of newborns to get rid of one human girl...yeah. I won't even bother going into how that makes no sense whatsoever but in a Mary Sue world, it makes total sense.
This horrifies Bella of course and she starts crying AGAIN (am I going to have to start a cry count now?) but then stops to go to graduation. She takes a moment to complain about Charlie again (heaven forbid he drive his own daughter to her graduation, that's so stupid, right?). He tries to have a moment and she rebuffs him as usual. Sigh.
Then Bella goes to take her place and ends up with a babbling Jessica who is excited (like, you know a NORMAL PERSON) and Bella of course treats this with great annoyance. Look, Miss Swan. I know you are above such petty things like being happy at your own graduation. But for some people, graduating from high school is a big deal. The least you could do, is smile back and make some chit chat. But that would be decent and I think we've established by now that you are in no way required to be decent, that would mean you're HUMAN and being human is a dirty word. Jessica's behavior at graduation is actually pretty normal. I ended up talking to people my last week of high school that I never talked to in my whole four years of school there. I'm sure others can say the same.
Basically Bella treats her graduation as some huge inconvience and I'm sorry it ticks me off. A lot of people are lucky to graduate at all. They actually had to you know, WORK to graduate. But little Miss Sue is just so bored by it all and practically says it's stupid:
Because it was an ending, no matter what Eric, that valedictorian, had to say about commencement meaning "beginning" and all the rest of the trite nonsense.
From Eclipse, Chapter 16
She even implies she has more to gain from this then the rest of the students and yet she can't even be bothered to pay attention to the speech! Then you want to talk nonsense: the ceremony went by quickly. Um...no, no, no. No graduation ceremony goes by quickly, unless you have a graduating class of like twenty students.
The insignificant event (I'm sorry, why is this chapter called a word that means notable event when the notable event itself is a few paragraphs and treated like an inconvenience?) passes and she explains her theory to Edward. She has an annoying dinner with Charlie (again, what a huge inconvenience spending time with your family after you've graduated). There's actually a relatively touching moment between the two as she leaves for the party but it's awkward and really forced and random and Meyer kind of redeems herself a little with the scene too as Charlie gives Bella advice and saying she was right to throw a punch in the first place. Chapter ends with Bella going into the doom that is that party thrown in her honor. Yes, what a hardship.
WORD LIST: epoch, trite
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: Graduation being treated as insignificant and annoying.
I'm sorry, a whole army is being created to go after tiny little HUMAN Bella Swan? Are you kidding me?
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