NOTES/THOUGHTS/REACTIONS:
So for the first time in this book I was looking forward to a chapter because I have been rather curious about Roselie and why she hates being a vampire. As always though, Meyer greatly disappoints because she didn't do research, she tells and doesn't show, and Roselie sounds like a robot when recounting her life story. So this chapter ends up being as dull as all the others. Sigh.
Roselie asks if they can talk and then worries about Bella's feelings which is odd because she's never worried before and then like a robot proceeds to tell her life story. Even the good guys monologue in this series. Awful convenient no? It saves Bella from having the trouble of figuring it out herself or letting the reader piece it together themselves and that's way to much work. But anyway, lets move on to the exciting life of Roselie.
Roselie it turns out lived during 1933 during the depression. Yet somehow her family was a) well off middle class folks and b) her dad had a STABLE JOB AT THE BANK. Um...Meyer? READ A HISTORY BOOK. Bankers were some of the worst people hit during the depression or did you miss the fact that the banks were BROKE? Therefore, they couldn't pay people much less have the money to pay bankers. Also, you know who was hit the hardest during the depression? THE MIDDLE CLASS, it wasn't just the poor. Apparently you slept through history class as well as english class.
But heaven forbid someone as beautiful as Roselie be desitute or struggle for a living, you know? That would be realistic! So her family is well off even though it makes no sense. Sigh. It's even worse because Roselie wasn't even troubled by the depression and her father made it seem like the people brought it on themselves. So her father was quite the ass apparently and didn't read the papers.
Roselie was of course the favorite in the family (beauty, you know) and her family were all silly social climbers. Poor Roselie had beautiful dresses, men falling at her feet, in short her life was horrible. God, so she was a whiny Bella, but in the nineteen thirties? UGH.
But her life wasn't rosy because you see she didn't have a child. Her friend had one and so she wanted one, it just wasn't fair. Her telling is then inturrupted by this idiotic inner rambling from Bella:
It was hard for me to imagine the world that Roselie had known. Her story sounded more like a fairy tale than history to me. With slight shock, I realized that this was very close to the world that Edward would have experienced when he was human, the world he had grown up in. I wondered-while Roselie sat silent for a moment-if my world seemed as baffling to him as Roselie's did to me?
From Eclipse, Chapter 7
First Bella, you clearly have no imagination or paid attention in history. Picturing this actually isn't very hard. Second, why are you even thinking about how hard it must be for EDWARD? He is not even a freaking part of this tale. Third, his situation is in no way like you imagining it because um, HE SAW THE WORLD CHANGE. Fourth, you are just NOW THINKING ABOUT THIS? You've known since the beginning how old Edward was! God, you are slow.
Roselie continues and somehow a royal family gets involved in this and they are uncreatively called the Kings. Roselie of course gets set up with the son (who naturally falls for her at first sight) and they are engaged to marry. Where am I supposed to feel sorry for her exactly? Well, it starts when Roselie tells us that she notices her beau doesn't have much affection for her. Poor thing. Then she runs into him and his friends who are all drunk and gets raped. Meyer naturally doesn't go into the details and for once I thank her for that. Rape is horrible enough.
Naturally though, Carlisle magically finds her and saves her. She is not grateful. When she is turned she kills her attackers and that's the end of how Roselie became a vamp.
Then we learn that Roselie was jealous of Bella because Edward wanted her and not Roselie. But it's not because she has a thing for Edward it's just that she was irritated that Edward never showed an interest in her. Just...UGH. First, once again no one doesn't like Bella just because of her herself. It's to do with a petty jealousy. Second, this whole thing just makes Roselie seem MORE petty and silly as opposed to Bella which I'm sure was Meyer's intention because she probably noticed people in the fandom liking Roselie more then her precious Mary Sue and we can't have that so we destroy what little we've seen of Roselie's personality and just make her into the stereotypical jealous female. Oh, and more sexist junk for the fact that Roselie is naturally baby-obsessed. She can't have a baby now so she's horribly depressed because you know that's all women need is to have a baby and a husband.
Even creepier? After Roselie tells Bella what an idiot she is for throwing her humanity (aka her ability to have children) away, she mentions that she saved Emmett and that he reminded her of the baby her friend had! Just...what? The implications of this are just...wrong. But of course, it's "true love" so naturally it's okay. All of this revealing back story doesn't really do anything though because Bella is already so focused on being a vampire she basically ignores Roselie's advice.
Bad transition and Bella and Alice go to school. Mike is there and he ASKS Bella out! Just...WHAT? Meyer, could you make this boy any more pathetic? He KNOWS Bella and Edward are going out. I was under the impression that he was OVER Bella by now after the horrible way she and Jacob treated him at the movies in New Moon. But no, he asks her out. You really need to give men a better rep then this Meyer.
But Jacob shows up in the nick of time on his bike and she jumps on his bike and they go, thus cutting school. Yes, Bella is a wonderful role model. Chapter ends with them driving away.
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GENERAL ANNOYANCES: "Did Edward ever tell you what led to this?" she asked, gesturing to her glorious immortal body.-Okay Meyer, we get it, the Cullens are hot and Roselie is so ungrateful for not appreciating living forever.
She looked up at me and smiled; it was a harsh, bitter-but still stunning-expression.-First, how can a harsh and bitter expression be stunning? Second, WE GET IT. MOVE ON.
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