NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
Time passes along. Bella basically pretends she's happy but in reality she's not and at least she realizes something's wrong with her. Unfortunately, she doesn't do anything to help herself. She refuses to do therapy (because that would imply she's not perfect), she doesn't even attempt to enjoy any of the things going on in her life. Charlie is of course made out to be a big meanie just because he wants her to be happy:
And Charlie got his wish: I wasn't miserable anymore.From New Moon, Chapter 9
She also has had lessons but now those are pointless because she doesn't hear Edward in her head anymore (because this is you know, a really big problem not hearing voices in your head). But anyway, all this summary leads up to the fact that it's Valentine's Day. Jacob is sweet and gives her some candy hearts. This makes Bella nervous because you know, we can't have the boy thinking there could be something between them. I would call this noble except that she has been spending every minute of her free time with the boy and has pretty much been flirting with him. If she didn't want a relationship with him, she shouldn't have done those things or just set it straight with him in the first place that she wasn't interested in having a relationship. So it actually isn't noble, so much as she just doesn't back up what she says she wants with her behavior. But I believe I've already mentioned several times that Bella is a hypocrite so lets move on.
It also doesn't help that she basically all but invites him on a date in the next conversation. To see yet another horror movie...must be horror movie season or something...I mean, doesn't she enjoy other types of movies? Bella doesn't exactly strike me as the horror movie type but whatever. Jacob and Bella make plans and Bella pretty much assumes all her friends will be up for it. She planned it, you know.
But her ungrateful friends still aren't accepting her non apology and have claimed to be busy. Mike tries to make it an actual date and instead of point blank telling him she's not interested, she gets people to go. I'm sorry but at this point, Mike still being interested in Bella is plain ridiculous. Most guys by now can take a hint that a girl is just not interested in him. Also considering how Bella treats Mike, most guys would have by then given up trying to be friends with her PERIOD. But no, our Mary Sue is so enamor worthy that a guy is still into her a year after they've met and she's treated him like dirt the entire time. Sigh. I'm beginning to think Mike has less of a backbone then Bella does.
Anyway in a bad transition area we are suddenly on date night and Jacob says this about Mike:
"The one who thought you were his girlfriend. Is he still confused?"
From New Moon, Chapter 9
Um...no, that wasn't Mike. That was TYLER. Mike never actually DATED Bella and therefore never actually thought she was his girlfriend. God, get your own story straight Meyer. I know characters who are not Bella, Edward, and Jacob are unimportant to you but jeez.
Well, turns out the other people can't make it and it ends up just being Bella, Jacob, and Mike. This isn't awkward at all. But that really isn't any excuse for how Mike is treated during this chapter. Even Jacob is a jerk to him and I admit my opinion of him went down quite a bit in this chapter.
Let me put a long story short: Mike is pretty much made out to be a whiny child while Jacob is cool and suave. Except that Mike was sick so he had reason to feel bad. But this isn't the point here. Point is: Mike is a loser, Jacob is not. In fact it's basically drilled into the readers head. What it doesn't point out, is that Bella and Jacob were jerks to him even though he was sick.
Hell, instead of worrying about him or staying with him while he's sick they stand outside the bathroom and discuss their relationship! Some great people here, folks. Stuff like this is why I do not like Bella (and now Jacob, he's still kind of better then Bella but he was an ass here).
In case you want to know what Bella and Jacob where doing while poor Mike was throwing up, Bella basically went against what she said earlier in this chapter and is going to give Jacob a chance but warns that she probably will never get over Edward. Jacob says he has no problem with this and will wait for her and is happy with whatever he's given. Ugh. I feel like lining up all the guys in this book and telling: SHE IS NOT WORTH IT. But because Bella is a Mary Sue they probably wouldn't listen. About the only good thing here is that Bella does actually realize she's being selfish but again; she's agreeing to it anyway. Realizing something does no good unless you actually DO something with that realization. Bella constantly realizes things about herself but does nothing to correct it. It drives me nuts because as a result, there's no character growth and one has to wonder why Meyer even bothered with sequels if Bella is never going to grow as a character.
Mike is taken home (and is further not worried over):
Mike groaned in the backseat, and threw up in the bucket. I grimaced, hoping my own stomach could stand the sound and smell. Jacob checked anxiously over his shoulder to make sure his car wasn't defiled.
From New Moon, Chapter 9
Bella and Jacob: DO NOT become Doctors. In order to become doctors you would have to care about someone's well being when they're sick and not how they're being sick effects YOU. You obviously don't have the capacity to do that.
Well anyway, Bella tells Jacob to call her and is irritated when he doesn't do so right away (um, give him time to come home?) and somehow gets the stomach flu (something else Mike is blamed for). Some erratic time passage (really Meyer, you suck at transition, work on that please) and it's noted later that Mike has recovered. Instead of being happy for him, Bella thinks that okay I only have to suffer a few more hours. Sigh.
Well, she recovers in like one paragraph, and calls Jacob who is also sick and she's actually sympathetic towards him. But apparently he doesn't have the same thing she does and is distant and says good bye quickly. We all know what happens to Jacob later on so who wants to take bets on what he has? In case you're slow I'll give you hint: full moon. This means that the plot is actually moving forward now, right? ;crosses fingers;
WORD LIST: second word use offense for hedged. Capitulation.
POSSIBLE EDITS: Transition-WORK ON IT MEYER. Paragraph breaks during time passage are your friend.
I was like a lost moon-my planet destroyed in some cataclysmic, disaster-movie scenario of desolation-that continued, nevertheless, to circle in a tight little orbit around the empty space left behind, ignoring the laws gravity.-Big huge run on sentance that should not be a whole paragraph and is ridiculously overdramatic even for a emo teenager. Plus, there shouldn't be a hyphan in between disaster movie.
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: Bella's assworthy behavior again and now Jacob is joining her
Time began to trip along much more quickly than before.-Except that time can't trip because time isn't a person and doesn't have legs. This is stupid. Better way to put it would have been time passed.
I was an empty shell. Like a vacant house-condemened-for months. I'd been utterly uninhabitable. Now I was a little improved. The front room was in better repari. But that was all-just the one small piece.-I was an empty shell was all that was needed here. All the rest of this was pointless elaboration and again, ridiculously overdramatic.
As per usual, this is way too funny. I love reading your blog. I think that you are putting the finger on what is wrong with these books that I couldn't wuite figure out.
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