Book – Stephenie Meyer 2008
Breaking Dawn is the fourth book in the Twilight series written by Stephenie Meyer. In the fourth book Bella Swan marries Edward Cullen who is a vampire. The book tells about the wedding and honeymoon to a tropical island. Near the end of the honeymoon, Bella realizes she might be pregnant. Edward doesn’t believe Bella should have the baby because he fears the baby could kill her. Bella decides to go through with having the baby anyways. In the middle of the drama surrounding the baby, Jacob Black, a werewolf, who has been in love with Bella since the first book, doesn’t believe she should have the baby either, but knows that there is no stopping her. After Bella gives birth to the half human half vampire baby she almost dies and is turned into a vampire to save her life. Another vampire sees the baby and believes that Bella and Edward have turned a human baby into a vampire, which is a law for vampires. When the Volturi, who are similar to the government of Vampires find out about the baby, decide to find the Cullens and destroy them. The Cullens decide to invite an army of vampires to stand by their side to give themselves enough time to explain the truth to the Volturi.
The film is called Breaking Dawn Part 1 because it only covers the first part of the book up until Bella gives birth to the baby and is turned into a vampire. There are a lot of changes to the movie that were not in the book. A large portion of the film is about the werewolves being upset about Bella having the baby and they want to destroy all of the Cullens, including Bella. Jacob turns against his pack and decides to help the Cullens, along with two other werewolves. The film has an entire scene with the vampires and the werewolves fighting, which is not in the book. Also, I feel the film drags on and tries to stretch out the wedding and the honeymoon for too long.
Breaking Dawn is not for younger children, but is for intermediate to high school level readers. The book and movie are not graphic in any way and are suitable for children. Once aspect of the series I like is that Edward and Bella waited until they were married to have sex. A lot of television shows and movies kids watch today do not show that and I think that it is a good quality of the book.
This is one where I have to say the book is ten times better than the film!
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