Blog #6

Quote Analysis:
“Dad never took his eyes off of Lucas. ‘Yes.’ Then he grabbed Lucas by the throat. I screamed. Had dad gone crazy? Suddenly Lucas pushed his arms through my father’s, prying him off, and then Lucas’s fist slammed into Dads nose” (259-260).
Analysis/Summery:
What is happening when this quote is said is when Bianca’s family and friends realize that Lucas is one of the vampire hunters from the group called The Black Cross. The fight started with Bianca telling a story about how Lucas’s great grandfather had gone to Evernight and was kicked out for dueling over a girl. In reality his great grandfather was also part of The Black Cross and was trying to exterminate the vampires but he was the only student excepted in at the time who was not a vampire. There was no competition for the vampires, so he ran away. This is almost exactly what Lucas had done. Lucas’s difference was that while on his mission he fell in love with a vampire. Also he was responsible for Enrich’s death, because Enrich was stalking one of the human students Lucas thought it was necessary that he was killed before he could kill the human. After the fight with Bianca’s father, mother, Balthazar, and Patrice, Lucas was able to escape out the glass window in the main hall. He ran thought the woods to the main town. He purposely went a specific way so that the vampires would get stuck at the river, running water, one of their fears. Since Bianca came to hunt down the new Lucas who is a vampire hunter she was able to cross the river without a problem. She ran after him without the help from her parents or Mrs. Bethany or Balthazar. Bianca found Lucas in the antique store in town where he had bought her a broach; she knew he would be there. Lucas and Bianca very stand-off-ish at first but then Lucas told her to come with him to get away from Evernight so they could be together. They had to wait for the bus to Boston, since it was raining they waited till the bus pulled into the station and then once it was there they ran for their lives in case the others had caught up. Once they are finally in Boston they realize that neither one of them has any money nor any place they can stay. Bianca realizes that she can pawn her broach that she is wearing at a pawn shop. Once they get what little money they can they find a cheap hotel. This was very awkward because Lucas makes sure that the room has two beds so they don’t have to sleep together. Bianca thinks that this is a smart idea but she doesn’t follow through with sleeping in the other bed. Nothing happens even though they both want something to… In the morning Lucas and Bianca wake up to Lucas’s mother standing in the doorway of the hotel room, she picked the lock. There is when she reveals that Lucas is not a teenage boy but he is 20. After an awkward meeting of Lucas mother, Kate, they all head off to the Black Cross meeting place. Bianca feels very uncomfortable in the place where they meet. She at first thinks that it is just that meeting a group of vampire hunters while you are half vampire is frightening but she looks around and realizes that she is in a church. Then all of the sudden she hears the door behind her open and hear her Father yell “BIANCA!” This is how far I am there is only a few chapters left in the book.