- "Sometimes you’re a little strange, Bella. Do you know that?"
- ―Jacob Black on Bella Swan.[src]
Jacob Black is a fictional character in the books Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer. He is described as a Native American of the Quileute tribe. In Twilight he is fifteen, and in New Moon and Eclipse he is sixteen. When he reaches the age of sixteen, he undergoes the transformation that enables him to phase into a werewolf, . He imprints on a baby named Renesmee Cullen, the daughter of Edward and Bella Cullen, their happy little accident. Like his pack brother, Quil Ateara, his love for Renesmee will not be sexual or romantic until she comes of age.
Personal History
Early Life
Jacob was born to Billy and Sarah Black. Sarah died When Jacob was young. Jacob remembers Bella from when they were younger, though she does not remember him. Eventually the two become friends.
Twilight
He has a very important role in this book. He is the one who tells Bella about the Cullens aka the Cold Ones.
He also gives Bella a message from his Dad Billy, "We will be watching you" When Bella starts to date Edward and Billy is worried about her.
New Moon
Bella becomes very good friends with Jacob, the son of her father's friend, Billy, after Edward leaves Forks. He helps her become somewhat happy and normal again by just being his happy-go-luck self, though she still misses Edward. New Moon reveals that Jacob is one of an ancient line of Quileute werewolves/shape shifters. They have forever been the mortal enemy of any vampire even the Cullen family. At first Jacob thinks all this is legend, and he is frightened and disturbed by the influence of young man on the reservation, Sam Uley, has on some of the Quileute youth. But when Jacob makes the change himself in response to a new vampire threat, he learns that Sam (the leader of the pack) went through his own werewolf hardships, including a rather bloody incident with his girlfriend (now fiancée) Emily Young. As werewolves are short-tempered, get the munchies, and likely to spontaneously combust when provoked to anger, Jacob agrees that he should stay away from Bella. He patrols the forest with his pack, searching for the vampires in the area who are killing local hikers. Jacob and the pack save Bella from the vampire Laurent (from Twilight), who is trying to kill her. Before the over-sized wolves chase him off, Laurent tells Bella that Victoria, James's mate (also from Twilight), is trying to kill her as revenge towards Edward, who killed her mate James. Later on, Harry Clearwater dies of a heart attack due to the shock of both his children becoming wolves. Leah Clearwater being the first female wolf ever. During a conversation in which Jacob almost kisses Bella, Bella's phone rings. When Jacob answers the phone, the speaker, whom he believes to be Carlisle Cullen asks where Charlie was. In reality, it was Edward pretending to be Carlisle. Jacob tells Edward that Charlie is at the funeral. Thinking that Bella has died, Edward goes to see the Volturi and Bella and Alice rush to stop him. Edward's return, Bella's willingness to go back to him and become a vampire. After leaving Bella's motorcycle in her driveway, Jacob reminds Edward of their treaty, which prevents the Cullen family from biting a human. This means that if a member of the Cullen family bit a human, the treaty would be broken and the werewolves could start a war. Jacob is upset by the whole conversation, though Bella manages to calm him down before she and Edward leave. However, when Bella turns to look at Jacob one last time, she sees he is suffering in heart-wrenching emotional pain.
Jacob's gang.
Eclipse
The third installment of the series begins with Jacob still trying to keep a safe distance away from Bella. She desperately tries to get a hold of him to talk, but he continues to ignore her attempts.
The book starts with Bella reading the note from Jacob. He has a hard time expressing himself in the note, as she reads through many unfinished sentences that end up being crossed out. The last comment in the note is not crossed out, and shows he is still angry with their situation.
Later on in the series, his affection toward Bella grows stronger. He's enraged by the fact that she will become a vampire after graduation, which is only a few weeks away. Bella feels bad that she's spending all her time with Edward and so she sneaks off to visit Jacob occasionally. Jacob invites Bella to come with him to a Quileute council meeting, and she accepts. Jacob and Bella spend the night together. On one of the later visits, Jacob tells Bella he loves her, and kisses her, thinking that Bella loves him back Bella, outraged that he would kiss her , punches him in the jaw and hurts her hand. Jacob brings Bella home and is told by Edward that he would allow it to happen if Bella wanted to kiss him. A while later there is a graduation party held at the Cullens' house that Jacob decides to go to. While he's there he learns that Victoria has amassed a newborn vampire army of vampires to attack Bella. Jacob eagerly agrees on learning how to fight these vampires and to fight along with the Cullens to protect Bella. Their original plan was to have the werewolf, Seth Clearwater, watch over Bella in a remote mountain place while the Cullens and the rest of the werewolf pack fought off the newborns. Bella, however, wanted Edward with her when she stayed in the mountains, and asked Edward. Edward agreed as long as Jacob would carry her to the place in the mountains so that her scent would be lost. They followed through with the plan, and Jacob carried Bella to the mountain hideaway. While waiting for the battle to be over, Edward, Bella, and Jacob set up camp. A blizzard blows through the camp, and Bella begins to freeze. Jacob comes in the tent and stays in Bella's sleeping bag to warm her up with his abnormal body heat, much to Edward's delight (not so much).
Later on, Bella wakes up and Jacob leaves the tent, having helped. Bella and Edward then start discussing their marriage plans, and Jacob overhears their conversation, and runs away because hes really upset. Upon Bella's request, Edward brings Jacob back and leaves them alone to talk. After some talk, Jacob says that he's going to go and kill himself because Bella doesn't love him. Bella then begs and pleads with him not to. Bella says that she'll kiss him if he won't commit suicide. Jacob agrees and they kiss. Bella then realizes that she loves Jacob, but her love for Edward overpowers everything else. Jacob, thinking he had won Bella over, then leaves to finish the battle, and gets injured in the battle trying to save a fellow werewolf, Leah Clearwater, who was trying to show off. Jacob shatters all the bones in the right side of his body. Carlisle patches him up and a worried Bella visits him. They talk, Jake's heartbroken over her choice, Jacob doesn't show it, and reluctantly agrees to stop trying to get her. Jacob reminds Bella that he will always be there for her whenever she needs him.
The epilogue is written from Jacob's point of view for the first time in the series. Jacob is sitting on the end of the cliff thinking about how difficult it will be without Bella. Leah comes and tells him to get over Bella, and Jacob angrily tells her, “ I’m going home.” At home he finds that Edward has sent Jacob a wedding invitation to Bella and Edward's wedding. With it a note was enclosed from Edward saying that Jacob did not have to come to the wedding, and Edward thanks Jacob. Unable to endure his broken heart any longer, Jacob runs away in wolf form, leaving "Jacob Black" behind him.
Breaking Dawn
In Breaking Dawn, Jacob is mentioned to be trying to live the rest of his life as a wolf. Jacob is first seen at Bella's wedding, where he becomes violent towards Bella and Edward when he finds out about their plans to make love while Bella is still human and has to be restrained by Seth and Sam. Then after Bella returns from her and Edward's honeymoon, he believed Bella was turned and demands the pack attack the Cullens. Sam refuses to do so, and Jacob goes on a solo attack mission. He finds out that she is pregnant and sees that Bella has purple and blue bruises on her stomach from were the baby has kicked. He talks with Edward, who doesn't want the baby because it is killing Bella. Edward actually asks Jake if he would have sex with Bella so she could actually have a child that wouldn't kill her. Bella says no to this right away. But Edward eventually learns to love the unborn baby, leaving Jacob feeling betrayed. He returns to Sam and tells him about Bella's pregnancy. The pack plan on killing Bella and the baby because they see the unborn baby as a threat to their world. Jacob still loves Bella, however, and revolts against Sam's authority as Alpha male. He starts his own pack of which he is Alpha, which Leah his Beta and Seth Clearwater join. After Bella gives birth to a girl she names Renesmee, Bella appears to die after Edward bites her to turn her into a vampire. Jacob goes to kill Renesmee, but imprints on her when he sees her. He nicknames Renesmee Nessie because her real name is too much of a mouthful. Bella is extremely irritated with the nickname and the fact that it catches on, even though herself and Edward call her Nessie at the end of the book. He is extremely close to her, goes hunting with her. Much to the annoyance of Edward. Jacob has a strong desire to protect her and to keep her happy and safe. It is likely that his feelings will eventually bud into romantic interests when she is old enough. He thinks of her as "his Nessie". It is hard for him to be separated from her, so he visits every day and almost never leaves the Cullen house. He states, though, that once Renesmee's habit slows down, he will go back to school. Sam's pack stops trying to attack the Cullens, since there is a law that states that one cannot kill the love interest of another wolf's imprinting, due to the damage it would cause to the wolf in question. Bella was planning to have Jacob run away with Renesmee to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , and possibly from there to Isle Esme, if the Volturi had decided to attack. She had forged passports made for the two of them, with Jacob as Jacob Wolfe, and Renesmee as Vanessa Wolfe. She picked Jacob and not herself or any of the Cullens because neither can go out into sunlight, it would be painful if Jacob and Renesmee were separated, and Jacob would be able to keep her safe much more effectively than anyone else, since he has a strong desire to protect her because of the imprint. Jacob and Renesmee did not have to run away, so Bella keeps the passports for the future. By the end of the story, Jacob also seems to finally be on good terms with Edward, since Edward refers to him as his 'son' . Paul, another werewolf, imprints on Jacob's sister, Racheal.
Physical appearance
Taylor Lautner, as Jacob Black in New Moon.
Jacob is 6'7" tall, with a toned and muscular body, despite his munchies. Bella describes him as having dark-tone russet skin. In New Moon, upon discovering his werewolf powers and joining the Quileute pack, he crops his long black hair short. Later he grows it out to chin length in Eclipse. He tends to wear only cut-off style jeans, saying that when turning from human to a werewolf and back he doesn't like to have to carry a lot of clothes since they are ruined during transformation. In Breaking Dawn he cuts his hair short again and it seems that he has grown even taller. It is noted by Bella that he would surely hit his head upon the beams of her new cottage. As a wolf, Jake has russet brown fur, dark eyes that show “intelligence”, and is very swift. He is also the second fastest and the second largest in the pack, but later grows to be the largest and Leah being the only wolf that is faster.
Personality and traits
Jacob's personality shifts throughout the books as he matures. In Twilight, he seems shy and sheepish around Bella, easily succumbing to her flirtations and worrying about how being the one and only for her and always wanting to protect her. However, in New Moon Jacob becomes sullen and temperamental. This is because this is where he comes out as being a 'shape shifter' and dosent know how to react. In Eclipse, he becomes a lot more confident that Bella is really for him - so much so that he makes her realize that she does love him after all. In Breaking Dawn, his personality changes yet again. He becomes over jealous when he relized that bella is pregent with a 'monster'. He didnt like the baby but he never stopped caring her bella. (even when she puched him in the face) He is ready to kill her baby daughter, Renesmee, until he sees her and imprints on the child.
Shape-Shifting Traits
Jacob in wolf form.
- Regeneration – “My wee-wee grows big and small!” –Jacob Black
- Phasing - Can morph in and out of "wolf" form when he’s tripping balls. With practice and skill, one can morph faster and with more efficiency. While less experienced, young shape-shifters will frequently phase when losing their tempers. There is still a risk when a shape-shifter ages and becomes more and more experienced, it happens much less frequently.
- Telepathy - Only works within pack, when in wolf form. They can speak with each other telepathically and hear each other's thoughts. Though this is more than useful while trying to find White Castle, there is no privacy left in the pack because of this ability, like when Jacob thought, “Edward sure touches me in the right places.” It can be described as both a gift and a burden. Their thoughts are open even when they tried to hide them.
- Physically enhanced – “I CAN FLY, MAN! THIS NEW SHIT IS GREAT!”
- Delayed aging – It’s like, the weed man, it’s magic and makes you live like, for-EVER you know what I’m saying bro?
- Constant temperature – It like, keeps me warm because there’s fire at the end of my spliff, you know?
- Imprinting - Shape-shifters can pick their bang buddy on a certain person they see once they begin phasing. However, not every werewolf imprints, the book says that the number of werewolves that imprint in 'The Twilight Saga' is unusual. Jacob describes imprinting to be stronger than true love, like friends with benefits.
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Jacob with some gimp.
Family relationships
Jacob's father is Wonderdog, his mother is Lassie, and he has two sisters, Rachel and Rebecca. Wonderdog and Jacob seem to be fairly close as they have lived alone for a fairly long time. Old dog-men have urges, too. On the other hand, Rachel, Rebecca, and Jacob are not as close as the twins live out of town and they rarely see their brother. Jacob's mother was said to have died by Wonderdog, humping her leg to death with him saying, "Her coffin was nailed shut," in Breaking Dawn.
Romantic relationships
Bella Swan
- "I don’t do beastiality, put that goddamn White Castle slyder down already."
- ―Bella Swan, on Jacob Black to Jacob Black.[src]
Jacob claims in Twilight that he had a crush on Bella. During New Moon, he spent more time with Bella, and his crush turned into love. His feelings for her put him at odds with her boyfriend, Edward Cullen. Jacob tells (or rather, shows) Bella how he feels in Eclipse by forcibly kissing her, to which she reacts by punching him in the jaw, only to end up with a broken hand (due to the fact that she is human and he is a 'werewolf'). Jacob does everything he can think of to try to steal Bella from Edward, but she rejects him. Heartbroken, Jacob runs away.
Despite Bella's rejection of him, Jacob still feels love for her, and protects her. But he still feels constant pain because he failed to win Bella over. When Jacob imprints on Bella's daughter, however, he is stripped of his feelings for Bella forever. After he imprints on Renesmee he just loves Bella as his best friend.
Renesmee Cullen
In Breaking Dawn, Jacob imprints on Renesmee Cullen, Bella and Edward Cullen's daughter. While Renesmee is a child, he will feel only the need the protect and help her, but as she grows up, Jacob will feel attracted towards her as part of the imprinting. It is implied that Renesmee will 'accept' Jacob as her mate, since she loves him very much. Bella isn't very happy about this at first, but then comes to accept it later on.
Etymology
Movie portrayal
Taylor Lautner playing Jacob Black in New Moon.
The role of Jacob was played by actor Taylor Lautner in the Twilight film. [1] In January 2009, it was announced that Lautner would reprise his role as Jacob in the sequel, New Moon.[2]
Appearances
References
- ↑ Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Movie Page
- ↑ Taylor Lautner to Reprise His Role as Jacob in New Moon. Summit Entertainment (2009-01-07). Retrieved on 2009-01-08.
External links
- Twilight Saga, the books' official website
See also
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