The Twilight Saga

          

Twilight is a series of four vampire themed fantasy romance novels by American author Stephenie Meyer. It charts a period in the life of Isabella "Bella" Swan, a teenage girl who moves to Forks, Washington, and falls in love with a 104 year old vampire named Edward Cullen. The series is told primarily from Bella's point of view, with the epilogue of Eclipse and Part II of Breaking Dawn being told from the viewpoint of character Jacob Black, a werewolf. The unpublished Midnight Sun is a retelling of the first book, Twilight, from Edward Cullen's point of view. The novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, which tells the story of a newborn vampire who appeared in Eclipse, was published on June 5, 2010 as a hardcover book and on June 7 as a free online ebook. The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, a definitive encyclopedic reference with nearly 100 full colour illustrations, was released in bookstores on April 12, 2011.

Since the release of the first novel, Twilight, in 2005, the books have gained immense popularity and commercial success around the world. The series is most popular among young adults; the four books have won multiple awards, most notably the 2008 British Book Award for "Children's Book of the Year" for Breaking Dawn, while the series as a whole won the 2009 Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Book.

As of October 2010, the series has sold over 116 million copies worldwide  with translations into at least 38 different languages around the globe.The four Twilight books have consecutively set records as the biggest selling novels of 2008 on the USA Today Best-Selling Books list and have spent over 235 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list for Children's Series Books.

The books have been made into The Twilight Saga series of motion pictures by Summit Entertainment. The film adaptations of the first three books were released in 2008, 2009, and 2010 respectively. The fourth book is adapted into two full-length films — the first film being released in November 2011, and the second film in November 2012.

 Twilight

          

          Seventeen year old Isabella "Bella" Swan moves to Forks, a small town near the Washington coast, to live with her father, Charlie, after her mother is remarried to a minor league baseball player. She is quickly befriended by many students at her new high school, but she is intrigued by the mysterious and aloof Cullen siblings. Bella sits next to Edward Cullen in biology class on her first day of school; he appears to be disgusted by her, much to Bella's confusion. A few days later, Bella is nearly struck by a van in the school parking lot. Edward inexplicably moves from several feet away and stops the vehicle with his hand without any harm to himself or Bella. He later refuses to explain this act to Bella and warns her against befriending him.

After much research, Bella eventually discovers that Edward is a vampire, though he only consumes animal blood. The pair fall in love and Edward introduces Bella to his vampire family, Carlisle, Esme, Alice, Jasper, Emmett, and Rosalie. Soon after, three nomadic vampires—James, Victoria, and Laurent—arrive. James, a tracker vampire, is intrigued by Edward's protectiveness over a human and wants to hunt Bella for sport. Edward and his family risk their lives to protect her, but James tracks Bella to Phoenix where she is hiding and lures her into a trap by claiming he is holding her mother hostage. James attacks Bella and bites her wrist, but Edward, along with the other Cullen family members, arrives before he can kill her. James is destroyed, and Edward sucks James's venom from Bella's wrist, preventing her from becoming a vampire. A severely injured Bella is taken to a hospital. Upon returning to Forks, Bella and Edward attend their school prom. While there, Bella expresses her desire to become a vampire, which Edward refuses to grant. The film ends with Victoria secretly watching the pair dancing, plotting revenge for her lover James's death.

New Moon

          On Isabella "Bella" Swan's 18th birthday, Edward Cullen, the vampire she loves, and his family throw her a birthday party. While unwrapping a gift, she gets a paper cut, which causes Edward's adopted brother, Jasper, to be overwhelmed by her blood's scent and attempt to kill Bella. Trying to protect her, Edward and the Cullens move away from Forks, but in an attempt to get Bella to move on, Edward tells her it is because he no longer loves her. This leaves Bella heartbroken and depressed.

In the months that follow, Bella learns that thrill-seeking activities, such as motorcycle riding and cliff-diving, allow her to "hear" Edward's voice in her head. She also seeks comfort in her deepening friendship with Jacob Black, a cheerful companion who eases her pain over losing Edward. Bella later discovers that Jacob and other tribe members are werewolves. Jacob and his pack protect Bella from the vampire Laurent and also Victoria, who seeks revenge for her dead mate, James, whom the Cullens killed in Twilight.

Meanwhile, a series of miscommunications leads Edward to believe that Bella has killed herself by jumping off a cliff. Distraught over her supposed suicide, Edward flees to Volterra, Italy to provoke the Volturi, vampire royalty who are capable of killing him. Alice and Bella rush to Italy to save Edward, arriving just in time to stop him. Before leaving Italy, the Volturi tell Edward that Bella, a human who knows that vampires exist, must either be killed or transformed into a vampire to protect the secret. When they return to Forks, Edward tells Bella that he has always loved her and only left Forks to protect her. She forgives him, and the Cullens vote in favor of Bella being transformed into a vampire, to Edward's dismay. However, Jacob sternly reminds Edward about an important piece in their treaty: if the Cullens bite a human, the treaty is over and the wolves will attack.

Eclipse

          In Seattle, not far from Forks, Victoria (Bryce Dallas Howard) attacks and bites Riley Biers (Xavier Samuel), in order to begin creating an army of newborns with him. Back in Forks, Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) discuss the complications of becoming an immortal vampire. At 18 years old, one year older than the age Edward was when he became a vampire, Bella expresses her aversion to the idea of marrying so young, though Edward refuses to turn her into a vampire until they are married, his argument that she should have various human experiences she would otherwise miss. While Charlie Swan (Billy Burke) investigates the disappearance of Riley Biers, Edward suspects his disappearance was caused by the newborn vampires. Furthering his suspicions is Riley's intrusion into Bella's room.

Although Edward fears for her safety, Bella insists that Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) and the rest of the werewolf pack would never harm her, but Edward is still not convinced. Bella goes to La Push to see Jacob, and returns home unharmed. During one of her visits, Jacob confesses that he is in love with Bella, and forcefully kisses her. Furious, she punches him and sprains her hand, and Edward later threatens Jacob and tells him to only kiss her if she asks him to. Bella even revokes the invitations of Jacob and his pack members to her graduation party, but when Jacob apologizes for his behavior, she forgives him.

Meanwhile, Alice (Ashley Greene) sees a vision that the newborn army is attacking Forks led by Riley Biers. Jacob, accompanied by Quil (Tyson Houseman) and Embry (Kiowa Gordon) overhear this, which leads to an alliance between the Cullens and Wolf pack. Later, the Cullens and the wolves agree to a meeting place and time to train and discuss strategy. During the training Jasper (Jackson Rathbone) explains to Bella that he was created by a vampire named Maria to control a newborn army. He hated his original existence and upon meeting Alice, joined the Cullens with her. Bella sees the true bond between a mated vampire pair and begins to understand Jasper better. Despite her reluctance to marry, Bella realizes that spending eternity with Edward is more important to her than anything else and agrees to marry him. Edward and Bella camp up in the mountains to hide Bella from the bloodthirsty newborns. During the night, Bella overhears a conversation between Edward and Jacob, in which they temporarily put aside their hatred towards each other. In the morning, Jacob overhears Edward and Bella discussing their engagement and storms off, angrily. Bella desperately asks him to kiss her, and she realizes that she has fallen in love with him. Edward finds out about the kiss but is not upset, as Bella says she loves him more than Jacob.

          When Victoria appears, Edward kills her while Seth kills Riley. The Cullens and the Quileute wolves, meanwhile, destroy her "army", though Jacob is injured saving Leah Clearwater from a newborn. Several members of the vampire police, the Volturi, arrive to deal with the newborn army. They also see that the Cullens are guarding the newborn, Bree Tanner (Jodelle Ferland), who had refused to fight and surrendered to Carlisle. Jane (Dakota Fanning) tortures Bree to get information, then instructs Felix to kill her, despite the Cullens' efforts to spare her. When Jane notes that Caius will find it interesting that Bella is still human, Bella informs her that the date for her transformation has been set. Bella visits the injured Jacob to tell him that even though she is in love with him, she has chosen to be with Edward. Saddened by her choice, Jacob reluctantly agrees to stop trying to come between her and Edward.

Bella and Edward go to their meadow, where she tells him she has decided to do things his way: get married, make love, then be transformed into a vampire. She also explains that she never has been normal and never will be; she's felt out of place her entire life, but when she is in Edward's world she feels stronger and complete. At the end of the story they decide they need to tell Charlie about their engagement.

Breaking Dawn

          Breaking Dawn is divided into three separate parts. The first part details Bella's marriage and honeymoon with Edward, which they spend on a private island that Carlisle bought and gave to Esme, called Isle Esme, off the coast of Brazil. Two weeks into their honeymoon, Bella realizes that she is pregnant with a half-vampire, half-human child and that her condition is progressing at an unnaturally accelerated rate. After contacting Carlisle, who confirms her pregnancy, she and Edward immediately return home to Forks, Washington, where the fetus continues to develop at an unnatural speed. After a chance remark by Jacob, it becomes apparent to Carlisle that the fetus only gains nutrition from Bella's blood, which is why her physical health was depleting. Edward is concerned for Bella's life, and convinced that the fetus will kill her, urges her to abort the pregnancy while offering her alternatives for children. However, Bella feels a strong connection with her unborn baby and refuses.

The novel's second part is written from the perspective of shape-shifter Jacob Black, and lasts throughout Bella's pregnancy and childbirth. Jacob's Quileute wolf pack is bound by their pact with the Cullens to not attack members of the Cullen family, as long as they don't feed on or change any humans, but if the terms are broken, the Quileute will protect humans and destroy the vampires. Not knowing what danger the unborn child may pose and faced with Bella's human life ending, the Quileute plan to destroy it and kill the vampire Bella. Jacob vehemently protests this decision and leaves, forming his own pack with Seth and Leah Clearwater. The fetus in Bella's body grows swiftly, with timing of the imminent birth unknown due to the lack of any related medical knowledge on human vampire births. Carlisle, the experienced doctor, is out of the house to replenish blood supplies from a hospital blood bank, when Bella falls, cracking her pelvis and inducing labor. The baby breaks many of her bones, including her spine, and she loses massive amounts of blood. In order to save her life, Edward changes her into a vampire by injecting his venom into her heart and biting her repeatedly. Jacob, thinking that Bella is dead, and blaming Bella's daughter Renesmee as the cause, tries to kill Renesmee. Instead, he "imprints"—an involuntary response in which a shape-shifter finds his soul mate—on her.

          The third section shifts back to Bella's perspective, describing Bella's painful transformation and finding herself changed into a vampire and enjoying her new life and abilities. However, the vampire Irina misidentifies Renesmee as an "immortal child", a child who has been turned into a vampire. Because "immortal children" are uncontrollable, creating them has been outlawed by the Volturi. After Irina presents her allegation to the Volturi, they plan to destroy Renesmee and the Cullens. In an attempt to survive, the Cullens gather other vampire clans from around the world to stand as witnesses and prove to the Volturi that Renesmee is not an immortal child. Edward telepathically connects with Jacob and his Quileute pack, with the full realization of Jacob's imprint with Renesmee forging a new family connection of an unbreakable bond and mutual pact of protection between the Cullens and the Quileute, ending hatred between the races. As local and foreign vampires arrive, the Cullen house becomes the headquarters and training ground for the assorted vampires and the Quileute wolf packs. Information pieced together from the many visitors reveals the Volturi's ulterior motives for power through the acquisition of vampires with special abilities, turning the gathered vampire witnesses into self-aware rebels intent on defending their freedoms. Faced with the Volturi's ruthless killing of numerous vampires, many of the guest vampires reveal secret talents, which they know the Volturi will demand to control through them, or seek to destroy, in fear of it being used against them. The transformation of each person from human to vampire alters their characteristics, physically and mentally, with traits in human form enhanced in vampire form and particular skills heightened, sometimes into a supernatural power. Since no two minds think alike, although similar, no two powers are identical and some powers require time to develop or improve. The majority of special abilities are mind based, with exceptions occurring in powers that are physically related. At the Cullen home, various abilities and strategies are worked on individually and collectively, with exceptional talents displayed by notable vampires such as:

• The Cullen coven: Carlisle compassion, Esme love, Emmett strength, Rosalie beauty, Edward telepathy, Alice precognition, Jasper pathokinesis, Bella mental shield, Renesmee tactile thought projection and mental shield penetration.
• The Cullen Allies: Eleazar ability identification, Kate psychic electrokinesis, Renata physical attack diversion, Charles lie detection, Maggie lie detection, Siobhan outcome manipulation, Zafrina mental visual projection, Benjamin elemental manipulation.
• The Volturi coven: Aro tactile telepathy, Marcus relationship identification, Jane mental pain illusion, Alec sense deprivation, Chelsea relationship manipulation, Demetri tracking sense.

Bella's human ability shielded her from psychic powers, but as a vampire she learns she can project it to shield others in a wide radius, a secret weapon that neutralizes most of the Volturi's powers. Renesmee's hybrid human vampire gifts show that gifts can be hereditary, passed down genetically from Edward and Bella both. Upon confronting the gathered Cullen allies and witnesses, the Volturi discover that they have been misinformed and immediately execute Irina for her mistake, trying unsuccessfully to instigate a full battle. Additionally, the Volturi bring up the Cullens' pact with the Quileute as allying with the vampires' sworn enemy, the Lycans, but it turns out the Quileute are "shapeshifters" that chose the form of giant wolves, and not Lycans. The Volturi remain undecided on whether Renesmee should be viewed as a threat to vampires' secret existence. At that time, Alice and Jasper, who had left prior to the confrontation, return with a Mapuche called Nahuel, a 150-year-old vampire-human crossbreed like Renesmee. Nahuel demonstrates that the crossbreeds pose no threat, and the Volturi leave. The Cullens and their allies return to their homes in peace. When Edward and Bella are alone, she shows Edward a skill she has worked on, enabling him to read her mind for the first time, and sharing her feelings about him from her human and vampire memories.

 Cast

Character
	Twilight (2008)	New Moon (2009)	Eclipse (2010)	Breaking Dawn (2011 / 2012)
Principal characters
Bella Swan	Kristen Stewart
Edward Cullen	Robert Pattinson
Jacob Black	Taylor Lautner
Carlisle Cullen	Peter Facinelli
Esme Cullen	Elizabeth Reaser
Alice Cullen	Ashley Greene
Emmett Cullen	Kellan Lutz
Rosalie Hale	Nikki Reed
Jasper Hale	Jackson Rathbone
Renesmee Cullen				Mackenzie Foy
Amazon Coven
Senna					Tracey Heggins
Zafrina					Judi Shekoni
Denali Coven
Eleazar				Christian Camargo
Carmen				Mía Maestro
Irina				Maggie Grace
Laurent	Edi Gathegi
Kate				Casey LaBow
Sasha					Andrea Powell
Tanya				MyAnna Buring
Vasilii				Billy Wagenseller
Egyptian Coven
Amun					Omar Metwally
Kebi					Andrea Gabriel
Benjamin					Rami Malek
Tia					Angela Sarafyan
French Coven
Henri					Amadou Ly
Yvette					Janelle Froehlich
Irish Coven
Maggie					Marlane Barnes
Siobhan					Lisa Howard
Liam					Patrick Brennan
Romanian Coven
Stefan					Guri Weinberg
Vladimir					Noel Fisher
Volturi
Aro		Michael Sheen		Michael Sheen
Caius		Jamie Campbell Bower		Jamie Campbell Bower
Marcus		Christopher Heyerdahl		Christopher Heyerdahl
Alec		Cameron Bright			Cameron Bright
Demetri		Charlie Bewley
Felix		Daniel Cudmore
Heidi		Noot Seear
Jane		Dakota Fanning			Dakota Fanning
Santiago					Lateef Crowder
American Nomads
Garrett					Lee Pace
James	Cam Gigandet
Victoria	Rachelle Lefevre		Bryce Dallas Howard
Mary					Toni Trucks
Peter					Erik Odom
Charlotte					Valorie Curry
Randall					Bill Tangradi
European Nomads
Alistair					Joe Anderson
Other Vampires
Bree Tanner			Jodelle Ferlan
Cold One			Peter Murphy
Cold Woman[D]			Monique Ganderton
Huilen					Marisa Quinn
Lucy			Kirsten Prout
Maria			Catalina Sandino Moreno
Nettie			Leah Gibson
Riley Biers			Xavier Samuel
Half-vampires
Nahuel					J.D. Pardo
Shape-shifters
Sam Uley	Solomon Trimble	Chaske Spencer
Quil Ateara		Tyson Houseman
Embry Call	Krys Hyatt	Kiowa Gordon
Paul Lahote		Alex Meraz
Jared Cameron		Bronson Pelletier
Leah Clearwater			Julia Jones
Seth Clearwater			Boo Boo Stewart
Taha Aki			Byron Chief-Moon
Humans
Charlie Swan	Billy Burke
Renée Dwyer	Sarah Clarke		Sarah Clarke
Harry Clearwater		Graham Greene
Billy Black	Gil Birmingham
Tyler Crowley	Gregory Tyree Boyce
Jessica Stanley	Anna Kendrick
Mike Newton	Michael Welch
Angela Weber	Christian Serratos
Eric Yorkie	Justin Chon
Emily Young		Tinsel Korey
Rachel Black				Tanaya Beatty
Claire Young				Sienna Joseph
Sue Clearwater			Alex Rice
Phil Dwyer	Matt Bushell			Ty Olsson
Mr. Molina	José Zúñiga
Gianna		Justine Wachsberger
Royce King II			Jack Huston
John			Ben Geldreich
Waylon Forge	Ned Bellamy
Cora	Ayanna Berkshire
Third Wife			Mariel Belanger
Waitress	Katie Powers
Ms. Cope	Trish Egan
Vera			Sabrina Frank
Kaure				Carolina Virguez
Gustavo				Sebastiao Lemos
J. Jenks					Wendell Pierce[?]
Bianca				Ali Faulkner
Kim				Caitlin Mooney Fu

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