Bella Swan: Jasper? Are you sure there's nothing I can do to help? Jasper Hale: Well just your presence alone, your scent, will distract the newborns. Their hunting instinct will take over, and drive 'em crazy. Bella Swan: Good, I'm glad. [Jasper nods and begins to walk away] Bella Swan: . Bella Swan: Hey, [Jasper turns around] Bella Swan: how do you know so much about this? Jasper Hale: I didn't have quite the same upbringing as my adopted siblings. [Rolls up sleeves and shows Bella his arms, which have bite marks on them] Jasper Hale: . Bella Swan: [Hops off Jeep] Those bites are like mine. Jasper Hale: Battle scars [smiles] Jasper Hale: . All the training the Confederate Army gave me was useless against the newborns, but still, I never lost a fight. Bella Swan: Hey, this - this happened during the Civil War? Jasper Hale: I was the youngest major in the Texas Calvary, all without having seen any real battle. Bella Swan: Until..? Jasper Hale: Till I met a certain immortal.. Maria . David Slade
About This Quote

In this quote from Breaking Dawn, we can see that Bella can hardly believe that these vampires are as strong as she was during the Civil War. In the first paragraph of this chapter, we learn that Bella fought in the Civil War as a soldier for the Confederacy. In the second, she meets a vampire who claims to have been a soldier in that war. How does he know? The only explanation is that he must have been a soldier for the North.

Here, he is showing Bella his battle scars. Is there any conflict between this and the canon of the story? No, because if Jasper was a soldier for the North, why would he have scars from battles fought for the South? This is just one of many examples where we see how conflict can be introduced into dialogue by including words and phrases from multiple stories.

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