Outside Reading #4

What most commonly motivates people to overcome obstacles are the other people in their life and those people’s reactions to their actions. One of the major obstacles that Bella has to overcome in the novel is the fact that Edward does not love her anymore. This is extremely hard for her to come to grips with this, and she is in great depression for many months before she is finally motivated by her father, to defeat this obstacle. One day after Bella has been depressed for months, her father Charlie says “’That’s it, Bella! I’m sending you home’”(meyer 94). Charlie and Bella’s mother were divorced when Bella was very young and she has lived with her mother for most of her life but now that her father is threatening to send her back with her mother she knows that she has gone too far. This overreaction of Charlie’s motivates Bella to overcome the obstacle of Edward leaving her.
People are also motivated to overcome their own obstacles by the actions of those around them. At the end of the book, Jacob had to overcome the obstacle that he and Bella could only be friends. The way that Bella starts to recover is becoming friends with Jacob and they he builds a motorcycle for her. To overcome the obstacle that Bella has created for him, he gives back the motorcycle “…what was parked in the driveway next to the cruiser, shiny, bright red, impossible to miss. My motorcycle flaunting itself in the driveway”(Meyer 553). By this action, Jacob is telling Bella that he accepts that they can only be friends. But then Bella responds a little over the top and that motivates him to give to overcome the obstacle that she has set up for him. What most commonly motivates people to overcome obstacles are the other people in their life and those people’s reactions to their actions.