1. Do you personally relate to Bella feeling queasy around blood?No, not at all


2. Were you afraid for Bella when Edward scooped her up? Did you think the fact that their was blood around might endanger her?
No, never. I was completely taken by the whole idea of Edward picking her up and carrying her...SAVING HER...! I thought it was so sweet and it gave them another justification to be touching each other...in MS Edward thinks about it as being a reason to be touching Bella and without nearly as much fear that he might hurt her because it was for justified reasons...
3. Edward says that Bella doesn't seem like a junior in high school. Do you agree or disagree with that assessment?
I agree - the way other characters are portrayed, Eg: Mike, Jessica and their trivial matters of attention in comparison to Bella definetely make her out to be much more mature. Bella carries more mature themes in the sense that she is entirely independant [looking after Rene, cooking for Charlie/looking after herself in Charlie's house - she rarely spends time with him which is clearly indictive of her 'no-need' for parenting of guidance...]. Bella doesn't really exerience [outwardly] high-school jealousy and is wise enough to see when she is the cause of it [Eg: she squeezes Jessica into the 'shotgun' seat in Mike's van on their irst trip to La Push in Twilight...]. Bella seriously debates internally over issues relating to her own mortality when she is 17 - juxtaposed against Jessica's worries about finding dates and dresses for the girls-choice spring dance makes Jessica and others around Bella seem tivial and i guess, somewhat 'normal' for their age.
4. What did you think about Edward's demeanor this chapter? How is it different than in the previous chapters?
Edward really opens himself up more for the readers AND Bella in this chapter - his reaction to Bella lying on the pavement showed his deep care and concern for bella [and his subsequent actions]. I think it subtly marks that Edward is with Bella to stay - that he won't try to protect her from himself again even though he feels selfish for deciding so.