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Bella's 18th birthday gifts from Jacob and Alice in the Twilight series
Summary:
For her 18th birthday in the Twilight series, Bella receives a handmade charm bracelet from Jacob and a scrapbook from Alice. These gifts reflect the personal connections and sentiments shared between Bella and her friends.
In Twilight, what gift does Alice give Bella on her 18th birthday?
This scene is actually found in New Moon, the second book in the Twilight series. The book opens with with Bella in a foul mood; she doesn't want to turn eighteen, because to do so will mean that she is forever older than Edward, who is stuck at age seventeen forever. She senses her own mortality by comparison and isn't at all excited about the party Alice, whom she has grown close to, is throwing for her.
Alice and Edward have combined forces to create a CD of Edward's piano music. However, since Jasper attacks due to a paper cut she receives while opening this gift, she doesn't realize what is inside until later, when Edward brings her gifts by her house. Bella is speechless as she listens to the music, realizing that Edward has composed this lullaby just for her.
Alice and Edward together had created a CD of...
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Edward playing the piano, including Bella's lullaby. The planning of the birthday party for Bella was also Alice's doing, spite of Bella's insistence that she didn't want to make a big deal out of her birthday. She's disgruntled because she's now older than Edward, who will be 17 forever as a vampire, and she can't convince him to change her into one as well to stop the aging process. However, Alice, who has a natural gift for fashion and entertaining, refuses to be swayed by Bella's negative attitude, and has the party for the grumpy birthday girl anyway.
What was Bella's 18th birthday gift from Jacob in New Moon?
In the book New Moon, Jacob doesn't give Bella a birthday present. He doesn't even spend time with Bella until after Edward leaves her and they begin to repair the motorcycles together. Bella purchases two old motorcycles because when she rides she sees Edward in her mind and it is a "rush."
In the movie, New Moon, Jacob gives Bella a "dream-catcher." This is an Indian relic that supposedly catches the bad dreams and lets only good dreams in. During several scenes in the movie you can see the "dream-catcher" hanging from the head-board on Bella's bed. Charlie, Bella's father, even refers to the dream-catcher during a scene when Bella is having terrible nightmares.
Hope this helps.
New Moon opens with Bella's eighteenth birthday, and she celebrates it with the Cullen family. Jacob is absent from Bella's birthday celebration and, in fact, doesn't appear in the book until several months after Bella's birthday. Jacob's entrance into the novel is marked by Bella's purchase of two motorcycles. She visits Jacob to see if he can help her restore the bikes and offers to give her one of the bikes in exchange for his labor and for riding lessons. In the conversation in which she makes the offer, Bella asks Jacob whether he can legally drive. When she realizes she has missed Jacob's birthday and apologizes, Jacob points out that he missed her birthday as well. They briefly discuss the possibility of having a joint birthday party, but before this happens, Jacob discovers he is a werewolf, which complicates his relationship with Bella. The party never happens, and Jacob technically never gives Bella a gift, unless you consider his restoring the bikes and teaching her how to ride her birthday gift.