Borrowing from Aquinas for that title.
She's out in the rain in front of a house where she sees some motorcycles for sale. This is apparently fate, because Charlie hates motorcycles and somehow this is her way to get back at Edward for breaking his promise that it would be like he never existed. Now, I know that previous sentence has two completely unrelated ideas in it, but literally this is her reasoning for wanting the motorcycles. Charlie hates them, they're dangerous, and Edward broke his promise, so she'll break her promise about not doing anything dangerous.
A kid from school opens the door, recognizing her for some reason and she inquires about the bikes. It turns out they are not for sale, they are free to whoever wants them, but they need work. For some reason haggling is involved regarding whether or not she'll take them. Which I don't understand at all, if the junkman comes around my neighborhood and he wants to take some scrap metal; I'm not going to get into it with him about where the best place to go would be. This is what happens, apparently there is one mechanic in Forks but he's expensive and everyone knows this. Yet somehow he still operates, even though the entire town would rather drive to Port Angeles to get their car worked on. What it sounds like is that this kid, the high school kid, is trying to kiss up to the hot senior. That's at least in the realm of plausibility, but if the family is really trying to ditch the bikes then the less talk about it the better.
Bella, now in possession of two motorcycles, needs a way to get them fixed, "inspiration hit like a bolt of lightening, not unreasonable considering the storm."
The "like a bolt of lightening" part I understand, it's a bit cliche, but I get the meaning. All of the sudden the idea exploded in her mind, but then she explains the simile? Why? It's completely reasonable to say that inspiration hit like lightening, because people say that all of the time and everyone understands the meaning of the phrase.* What does the storm have to do with anything? Does she mean that literally lightening hit her? The weather is a complete non-issue for the simile to work. If she had said instead, "the idea exploded like a volcano" would she have to justify it with, "which is pretty reasonable considering what happened in Iceland recently?" Sorry Stephanie, but that's bad writing.
What is the idea then? Jacob. She knows someone that works on cars, and he'll pretty much do anything for her, so just like I assume how she got the job at Mike's store she heads off to the reservation but first she calls her dad to tell her what's going on. Her dad, the Sheriff, wonders why she is calling and what's wrong to which Bella asks, "Can't I call you at work without there being an emergency?"
No, Bella, you can't. Other people can, but not you. Mainly for the reason that every morning she wakes up screaming.
She gets permission and then runs to the Black's house to see Jacob, "You grew again!' I accused in amazement."
"Accused"? I suppose that's technically right but it just seems so wrong. The two sneak around to the barn to unload the bikes. Jacob looks them over and remarks that they will need work. Bella offers him one of the bikes in exchange for fixing the both of them-a pretty good deal actually. Jacob agrees to this, because he won't take money. I actually get the impression that his desire to work on the motorcycles is to for its own sake trumping his desire to do shit for Bella. He's enthusiastic about the project and best of all because of his old man's wheel chair they can be worked in secrecy.
Bella here, actually lightens up. She feels better about herself around Jacob, and I'm not reading anything into it either. She flat out says it a couple of times. It's probably because by doing this, she's actually moving on. Holding on the Edward promise was just her way of staying with him, but once she freed herself from his control her mood considerably lightened. In actuality she's finally come to the conclusion that she told us that she was at by the very end of the last chapter. This time she isn't lying, because she's stating facts not trying to convince anyone.
As a point of fact though things get strange. Jacob remarks that one of the Motorcycles is a Harley Davidson Spirit. Harleys are like Macs (the computers) a good deal of the cost is based around the label on it. They are two companies that basically epitmoize form over function. Not to say they don't function well, but that for the same price you would pay for a Harley or an i"Whatever" you could but at least two of the other things. All that aside, the thing with the Harley is that it is going to be expensive to fix, Jake tells Bella that the parts cost money but she doesn't care. She can use her college fund to pay for the parts.
I think that this is the way Meyer is writing Bella's suicide, without calling it that. I did a quick check on the internet and most of the parts cost about fifty books each, the entire bike is available on EBay for around 3550. I suppose that my only question regarding her desire to cull her future in favor of the motorcycles is: why doesn't she just use the money she makes from her job? It's not like she's in a hurry.
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*Just like "irregardless" sigh.
She's out in the rain in front of a house where she sees some motorcycles for sale. This is apparently fate, because Charlie hates motorcycles and somehow this is her way to get back at Edward for breaking his promise that it would be like he never existed. Now, I know that previous sentence has two completely unrelated ideas in it, but literally this is her reasoning for wanting the motorcycles. Charlie hates them, they're dangerous, and Edward broke his promise, so she'll break her promise about not doing anything dangerous.
A kid from school opens the door, recognizing her for some reason and she inquires about the bikes. It turns out they are not for sale, they are free to whoever wants them, but they need work. For some reason haggling is involved regarding whether or not she'll take them. Which I don't understand at all, if the junkman comes around my neighborhood and he wants to take some scrap metal; I'm not going to get into it with him about where the best place to go would be. This is what happens, apparently there is one mechanic in Forks but he's expensive and everyone knows this. Yet somehow he still operates, even though the entire town would rather drive to Port Angeles to get their car worked on. What it sounds like is that this kid, the high school kid, is trying to kiss up to the hot senior. That's at least in the realm of plausibility, but if the family is really trying to ditch the bikes then the less talk about it the better.
Bella, now in possession of two motorcycles, needs a way to get them fixed, "inspiration hit like a bolt of lightening, not unreasonable considering the storm."
The "like a bolt of lightening" part I understand, it's a bit cliche, but I get the meaning. All of the sudden the idea exploded in her mind, but then she explains the simile? Why? It's completely reasonable to say that inspiration hit like lightening, because people say that all of the time and everyone understands the meaning of the phrase.* What does the storm have to do with anything? Does she mean that literally lightening hit her? The weather is a complete non-issue for the simile to work. If she had said instead, "the idea exploded like a volcano" would she have to justify it with, "which is pretty reasonable considering what happened in Iceland recently?" Sorry Stephanie, but that's bad writing.
What is the idea then? Jacob. She knows someone that works on cars, and he'll pretty much do anything for her, so just like I assume how she got the job at Mike's store she heads off to the reservation but first she calls her dad to tell her what's going on. Her dad, the Sheriff, wonders why she is calling and what's wrong to which Bella asks, "Can't I call you at work without there being an emergency?"
No, Bella, you can't. Other people can, but not you. Mainly for the reason that every morning she wakes up screaming.
She gets permission and then runs to the Black's house to see Jacob, "You grew again!' I accused in amazement."
"Accused"? I suppose that's technically right but it just seems so wrong. The two sneak around to the barn to unload the bikes. Jacob looks them over and remarks that they will need work. Bella offers him one of the bikes in exchange for fixing the both of them-a pretty good deal actually. Jacob agrees to this, because he won't take money. I actually get the impression that his desire to work on the motorcycles is to for its own sake trumping his desire to do shit for Bella. He's enthusiastic about the project and best of all because of his old man's wheel chair they can be worked in secrecy.
Bella here, actually lightens up. She feels better about herself around Jacob, and I'm not reading anything into it either. She flat out says it a couple of times. It's probably because by doing this, she's actually moving on. Holding on the Edward promise was just her way of staying with him, but once she freed herself from his control her mood considerably lightened. In actuality she's finally come to the conclusion that she told us that she was at by the very end of the last chapter. This time she isn't lying, because she's stating facts not trying to convince anyone.
As a point of fact though things get strange. Jacob remarks that one of the Motorcycles is a Harley Davidson Spirit. Harleys are like Macs (the computers) a good deal of the cost is based around the label on it. They are two companies that basically epitmoize form over function. Not to say they don't function well, but that for the same price you would pay for a Harley or an i"Whatever" you could but at least two of the other things. All that aside, the thing with the Harley is that it is going to be expensive to fix, Jake tells Bella that the parts cost money but she doesn't care. She can use her college fund to pay for the parts.
I think that this is the way Meyer is writing Bella's suicide, without calling it that. I did a quick check on the internet and most of the parts cost about fifty books each, the entire bike is available on EBay for around 3550. I suppose that my only question regarding her desire to cull her future in favor of the motorcycles is: why doesn't she just use the money she makes from her job? It's not like she's in a hurry.
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*Just like "irregardless" sigh.
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