This is my first Blog, so don't hurt me. Over the past week or so I wrote the following in my Diary in response to a twitter conversation called #genderinya::
Damnit, I’m sick of people picking on Bella. She’s more mature than she seems and she makes grown up decisions. For example, in Twilight first she makes the decision to lead the tracker away from Charlie (no one else makes this call). Then she sacrifices herself in order to save her mother. Now in New Moon she makes a lot of reckless decisions, but nothing to the extreme of Edward. Edward makes the selfish move to kill himself, while she’s trying to survive. And when she learns of this, she runs through a crowd to try to save him. Then at the Volturri trial by admitting to her desire to join she saves Edward, Alice, and herself. Then there’s Eclipse, which admittedly I am going to have to read again, where she cuts her hand in order to distract Victoria and her friend long enough for Seth and Edward to kill them. Finally in Breaking Dawn, she marries Edward. And she has a hybrid baby with him at her own risk. And then when the Volturri come to kill the child, she chooses to fight and protect the child.
If there is anything Bella’s guilty of it is of being human. She’s flawed yes, but not weak in character. As far as her attachment with Edward goes, she’s just under a spell. They are both under each other’s spells. That doesn’t make them immature. Admit it, there have been times where you have been under someone else’s spell. Did that make you less mature?
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