NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
We open to Bella at the barbecue and the boys being...boys have a large appetite. Cute moment with Paul and Jacob and a hot dog is ruined by Bella's constant inferiority complex:
Hanging out with no one but extremely dexterous people all the time was going to give me a complex.
From Eclipse, Chapter 11
Bella...you already have one. You already clearly feel you and your kind are inferior to these god-like creatures. You also already have a ton more issues but I'm moving on. Though I will say simply catching a hot dog is nothing to really feel inferior about. Any normal human can catch a hot dog.
We get a flashback to a couple of minutes ago (why didn't she just start out with this?) where Bella is warmly greeted (naturally, she is a Mary Sue and thus no one will feel any resentment towards her whatsoever).
People there are the pack, Billy, Quil's grandfather who Bella charmingly decribes as ancient and brittle (way to respect your elders honey), Sue Clearwater and her kids, Leah and Seth. We get pondering on Leah's situation and I love how Bella just naturally assumes she knows how these practical strangers feel, and how Leah feels and pretty much just sits there and judges a situation she is not a part of and has no right to judge. Hell, she even goes and comments on Jared's girlfriend's plainness (which is rich coming from a girl who is apparently plain herself) and pointing out her flaws but then goes on to say how being in love makes her beautiful and now she totally understands how imprinting is not wrong. Whatever, Bella. I also would like to comment on how Bella focuses on LOOKS throughout this. Seriously, this girl is supposed to not care about that, right? Yet she goes on to comment about Emily's ugly scars and it being justice (what the hell?! Because now she's not as beautiful that somehow makes Leah feel okay?!) and then going on about how Kim is plain but then suddenly seeing her as beautiful and that suddenly making imprinting all right. If she supposedly DOESN'T care about looks, she'd be commenting instead on how happy the couples are not what the women look like (I notice she doesn't devote nearly as much time into caring whether or not the men are hot). Also, I don't care how beautiful imprinting supposedly makes them look, IT STILL ISN'T THEIR CHOICE.
Anyway, Billy starts to tell the history of the wolf pack (for some reason Emily is taking notes...why?). I will say I found the stories somewhat interesting. It's the first time in this book, something hasn't ticked me off. Granted, it was all very lackluster and not very relevent (and not very logical but it's a mythlogy story so I kind of am letting that go). Then it moves on to the cold ones. I will not go into these overly long stories (accept for a eye roll at Bella for being scared at one point and doing the gender stereotyping YET AGAIN, god Meyer, you can't just let it go for one chapter can you?) just know there's sacrifice (of a woman of course) and the cold one got defeated (she was also a woman by the way).
I now want to comment on something that irritates me. In the beginning of this chapter Bella simply calls Leah by her first name. But then after all the beauty commentary she's suddenly relagated to Leah Clearwater but all the other members of the tribe are still called by their first name. Why is that? Let me guess, Bella made a judgement somewhere in there and found Leah lacking and therefore decides she needs to be called by her full name instead of her first name like everyone else. Or Meyer made the judgement. Whatever, it's annoying.
Bella goes home after, with Edward of course. Has a vivid dream about Roselie and Billy fighting (I see we're back to the dream sthick Meyer) and wakes to find Edward reading Wuthering Heights. More lack of subtlty as Meyer once again tries to make her book out to be on the caliber as Wuthering Heights (it's NOT, Wuthering Heights was a) Well written, and b) Had a point to it) and then even tries to make allusions between Edward and Heathcliffe. Well, I do give on this. They are both jerks, and obsessive, and controlling. The difference is, Bronte knew there were flaws in her characters and didn't try to make them out to be wonderful magnificent male leads that all men should aspire to be. Whereas Meyer...well, you've all read the books I'm assuming so you know as far as she's concerned her characters are perfect.
Edward leaves and Bella goes, no he's in no way like Heathcliff and chapter ends.
WORD LIST: dexterous, brittle, adulation
GENERAL ANNOYANCES: how the shape of her lips was a perfect double curve,-What? What the hell is a perfect double curve? And how does that suddenly make her beautiful as opposed to a few seconds ago?
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