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Edward decides that it's time to take Bella out to learn how to hunt. During this time she discovers all of the new things she can do. She can jump out of a second story window and land gracefully without making any noise, and jump over a river in one leap. Edward is even surprised at how fast she catches on to things and the extent of her strength. Once they were in the forest and about to start hunting for animals, Bella catches the scent of a human and starts to follow the scent. Edward is alarmed and tries to stop her, and when he finally gets her attention she turns around and gives him her full attention. This shocks Edward, because usually when a vampire starts to follow a humans scent they become obsessed and cannot stop. Bella was able to stop easily with her own will which is very unusual because she is a newborn. Edward and Bella decide it's time to go back to the house after they are done hunting, and they find Jacob guarding them from entering the house. He says he is there to protect Renesmee which is strange to Bella because she thought Jacob hated the baby. Bella insists on seeing her and they finally let her, even though they didn't want her to because they thought she would want to drink her blood. Bella has no problem being around the baby and proves them wrong. Later, Carlisle comes to the conclusion that the talent Bella was gifted with when she made her transformation into a vampire is self-control.

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Bella's pregnancy begins to get out of hand. Carlisle leaves with Esme and Emmett to go hunting, and leaves Edward, Alice, and Rosalie to take care of Bella while he is gone. Bella's child continues to grow, and accidentally breaks Bella's spine causing her to pass out. Because of this, Edward is forced to perform the surgery himself. Bella is semi-conscious during this but does not feel the pain. Once Edward successfully delivered the baby, he has no choice but to change her into a vampire because she would not survive the injuries. He bites her in multiple places so that the venom will get into her system as fast as possible. The process of turning into a vampire is very excruciating pain that is almost intolerable. Stephanie Meyer writes about this part through Bella's perspective and tries to describe the most painful thing that could ever happen to anyone and that is what it felt like for Bella. After a couple days when the process is complete, Bella starts her new life as a vampire. Everything about her is different... the way she looks, the sound of her voice, even all of her senses. She can hear things from very far away and can see things she never was able to as a human. She is also very graceful and powerful, even more so than Edward, which is weird because she used to be so weak and clumsy compared to any of the Cullens. Bella tries to convince her new family to let her see her child Renesmee but they don't believe that she has the self control to see her without harming the baby.

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The book I chose for outside reading is Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. I picked this book because I read the first three books in the series and loved them.