Nobody in the world is 100%
truthful. Not with themselves, and
certainly not with others. We deceive our minds. We begin believing our lies,
and other's lies, turning life into a game of deceit and confusion. In New
Moon by Stephanie Meyer, we find that Bella and Edward are playing this
unfortunate game. Edward deceives himself, along with Bella, leaving Bella to
lie to almost everyone left in her life. With all of this said, one of the main
themes in New Moon is deceit/lies.
Edward
deceives himself, along with Bella.
Edward
wanted Bella in his life. Yet he convinced himself that she would be better off
without him. He said to her, “My world is not for you”, making her
believe he truly doesn’t want her, that he definitely has no soul. At first
Bella finds it difficult to believe this, but as soon as he left her stranded
in the forest it all fell into place, she realized he had dug a hole through
her, leaving her to suffer in depression . Edward always claims he is too
dangerous for Bella, making him think that she’s better off without him. He
knows she’ll be devastated. Yet he deceives himself saying that “humans move
on”. But even when Bella tried to move on, she found more lies and deceit.
Bella
deceives, well, everyone.
Bella was
deceived, causing “a hole through her heart”, that grew deeper and deeper. But
at the beginning of a dig is always overlooked because no one knows the cause.
In the beginning of her depression, after Edward left, she began to shut out
her close friends, and even her dad. Then Jacob was there. Bella used him. And
she knew it because she thought to herself, “I was so wrong to encourage Jacob”
as she made him believe she may finally like him more. And he was unaware of
have deceitful Bella could be in such a depressive state.
New Moon teaches us—
“If you cannot tell the truth about
yourself, you cannot tell it about other people”
I love your word choice and how you really analyzed the theme by picking out pieces from the book and really getting into detail to support your thesis. I also love your format in this piece and how you ended it! (:
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