"I'd never given much thought to how I would die -- though I'd had reason enough in the last few months -- but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this.
I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me.
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.
I knew that if I'd never gone to Forks, I wouldn't be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn't bring myself to regret the decision. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it's not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end.
The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me."
-- Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, page 1.
This opening is so symbolic. The soft, fragile, feminine doe is running away from a bloodthirsty predator. The doe, of course, is Bella and her innocence, and the unseen predator is representative both of Edward and of James, after her blood. Bella's monologue taken from the preface of the book, however, which is a preview of how she will stand by the decisions she's made and is perfectly willing to protect the people she cares about with her life. In other, when push comes to shove, she will not run away like the deer. She stands firm to face the hunter. This conviction is one of the many things I admire about Bella, and it's something she shows repeatedly throughout the series.
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