In eclipse how did edward break the rules?
Edward Cullen was initially going to break the rules by showing
himself to the public at a celebration in Italy. He was to walk out
into the sunlight so that the sun would show his diamond like skin.
He was going to do this in order to convince the Voltori (sp?) to
kill him as punishment because he believed Bella had committed
suicide. Bella was able to find him just in time before he did this
and prevent him from breaking that rule.
However, he did break the rule of letting a human (Bella) know
of the vampire existence. They were able to get out of punishment
at that time by convincing them that they were going to turn Bella
into a vampire herself.