Life is like dominoes, everything happens to set something else in motion. City of bones was written by Cassandra Clare and it’s about Clary Fray, a girl who’s life was changed forever. One night in New York City an ordinary teenager, or so she thought, discovered that she is the descendant of a Shadowhunter, a secret group of half angel half human warriors, part of an ancient battle to protect the human world from the creatures of nightmares. The stages and struggles that every hero must go through creates immense character development.
Learning about the life that was hidden from her helped Clary discover many of her characteristics that will be identified throughout her journey but will also bring conflict into her life. Clary will then discover the intensity of the world that was hidden from her. In the book Clary’s mother goes missing. With this information she learns that she is a descendant of Shadowhunters. She must accept her destiny and join forces with Jace, Alec, and Isabelle (other Shadowhunters that are acquainted with her family). Clary’s mothers dissapearance was the cause of her learning she was a Shadowhunter. As
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His goals and ambitions changed drastically and his number one priority was compromised in order to fit her into his plans. Jace was raised knowing he was a Shadowhunter so his goal in life was to protect the world from demons, as is that of all Shadowhunters, he was too protect any human in danger. Clary’s entry into the Shadow world changed his goal from protect any human in danger to protect Clary if she’s in danger. He discovered a protective character trait that until this journey he wasn’t aware of its exsistence. This trait was non exsistent before because there was no one in his life that couldnn’t protect themselves. Clary brought out this trait because she was forced into this world when she was vulnerable and unknowledgeble of the world around
The Second Chance Cycle Second chances are very hard to get, but when they are given, they should be appreciated and valued. Many of the characters in The First Stone have impactful second chances that they may not fully appreciate at first. As they live out their second chances Reef, Alex, and Leeza go through major personality change that they may not realize for a while.
Family In Jesmyn Ward’ novel “Salvage the Bones”, Ward uses a fifteen –year-old girl Esch as narrator to describe the 12-day life of a family living in Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, waiting for the hurricane comes. She wants to show that although they are poor, they can still form a family and help each other when emergency happens. She talks about the trivia happened in daily-life of that African American family and how the whole family prepared for the hurricane, in order to show the life and relationship of underclass African American people living in Mississippi.
Which one between John Turner and Robert Johnson will succeed? Why will either Turner or Johnson make it and the other not make it?
Small towns usually consist of people that know about everyone else’s business but their own. In the fiction novel Bone Gap by Laura Ruby, Ruby introduces the reader to the main character, Finn O’Sullivan, who everyone believes is a weird and peculiar child. Finn lives with his brother Sean and friend Roza in a small town called Bone Gap. One day Roza goes missing and given the fact that the O’Sullivan boys’ mother left them for her lover, the people of Bone Gap do not find the disappearance a surprise. Except Finn knows the truth about her disappearance. However, no one in the town, not even his brother, believes Finn’s story. The mystery unfolds as Ruby uses the different characters’ point of view on the situation. Ruby uses different aspects of literature to pull the reader in preventing
In the book All the Broken Pieces, by Ann e. Burg, the main character Matt Pin compares himself to his bother Tommy. He describes how their physical features, along with their emotions and metal stage, are divergent. Matt correlates himself to fall, while he compares his sibling to summer.
In the novel, All the Broken Pieces, by Ann E. Burg, Matt makes a comparison between himself and his brother when he defines his brother as “summer” and himself as “fall”. This metaphor can be explained not only by their physical features, but their emotional and mental characteristics as well. His brother features summer and hasn’t faced any misery, while he himself looks like fall and has come across atrocious things.
Throughout history, pride and determination have motivated people to do amazing things. In The Devil in the White City, Erik Larson proves that pride and determination aided the creation of The World’s Columbian Exposition.
In the story “House Of The Scorpion”, written by Nancy Farmers, the main character of the story is Matteo (Matt) Alacran. The main setting of the story takes place in the country of Opium. In the beginning of the story, it describes a man named Eduardo who delivers a baby Matt from birth from a cow. There were thirty six split cells of life in the beginning, but only Matt was the droplet that lived. The main conflict of the story is Matt himself; he is a clone of the one of the most powerful drug dealers, El Patron. Besides only a few characters of the story, everyone despises him and is disgusted being close to him as well because he is a clone, whose status is lower than a cockroach. Due to being a clone, the reason he is alive and not turned into an eejit (people with computer chips in their brains and acts like zombies), is to be used as spare body parts for El patron when his organs stop working. The solution is that El Patron is dead and all of his successors are too. At the end of the story, Matt becomes the new lord of opium.
I believe that one way you can look at the book The House of the Scorpion through a lens is by considering how class plays a role in the lives of different characters and their relationships in the book. Some characters whose lives have been affected by their class include: Matt, El Patron, and the Eejits.
"The Angled City" revolves around the internal conflict between "N." and he struggles to stay moral while fighting a war. This self vs self conflict is fought throughout the entire story. N. tries to give his victims a chance by keeping to a code of conduct, this is how N. separates himself from other snipers by justifying his conduct as a pattern that anyone could discern. N. ultimately is losing this battle with himself and goes into the city to a bar. While on his way back he notices the spot he normally looks down on with his rifle and is disturbed by the area from the city level. After returning to his sniper spot his inner self manifests itself into his own image but on the other end of his rifle. N. fires a shot out of his rifle
Our actions and interactions with others and society are what define us. Society’s perception of an individual may contrast with that individual’s perception of self. Our actions and interactions with others create certain stigmas which may not change despite progression and change an individual has undergone. But however at the end of the day we are our own creators and we chose who we interact with.
How do the traditional gender roles we put on people in the 20th century affect how women and men see themselves now and during the 1940’s through the 1950’s. During World War Two tend to think of only men serving when that was actually not the case in World War Two ” some 350,00 women served in the armed forces.” In City of Thieves by David Benioff Vika,Kolya, and Lev all serve in non traditional roles. In City of Thieves the theme of masculinity and femininity plays a prevalent role in Levs feelings towards being a ‘real man’, Vika’s non traditional female role and Koylas masculinity throughout the novel.
4th Floor is a comedy-drama television show created by Kaiya Atkinson. The show will be set in a university setting and follows six main characters and four background characters. The purpose of this project is to showcase a realistic representation what can happen when people from different walks of life live in a condensed environment, during a period in their lives where they’re trying to discover who they truly are. This project is extremely important, because the characters each represent a multitude of aspects that challenge hegemonic masculinity - although some characters fall into the toxic masculinity stereotypes. This project will give those who do not see themselves represented in the media, a higher chance to see themselves
Nobody will go through life smoothly. Every person will have to handle some issues and deal with all different types of conflict. The protagonist, Saul Indian Horse from the novel Indian Horse written by Richard Wagamese and Clarissa (Clary) Fray from The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones written by Cassandra Claire are defiantly no exception. Yes, they are both strong and highly independent characters, but they were not always this way. Saul was a normal child and so was Clary. They both grew up in a happy home and no apparent issues. That is, until they both find out that there are other things going on in the world that involve them. Saul discovers that Indians are not the most respected people and that his life is going to change and become more difficult. Clary realizes that she is not exactly who she always though she was and that her life will also change. It is because of these changes, that most of the conflicts exist and make them progress as characters throughout the books. Saul and Clary grow to be stronger because of these conflicts that they face such as losing family, being lied to and betrayed by trusted elders, and by fighting against their own memories.
Most of the characters are likable, because many of them go through the struggles that you yourself might be going through. When clary felt frightened that her mother has left she reacted as many of us may react “ clary felt a scream rising up in her chest: “mom” she shrieked. “Where are you mommy!””(Clare 49).