Clary Fray is the main character and protagonist in The City of Bones by Clarissa Clare alongside with Valentine being the antagonist. Clary’s role in the story is to save her mother from Valentine and his group, the Circle. Also, Clary in The City of Bones by and Jace must find the Mortal Cup before Valentine and the Circle does to prevent a civil war between Downworlders and Shadowhunters and the bloodshed of mundanes. In the book, The City of Bones, Clary is loyal, stubborn, and talented. First, Clary is loyal. For example, after Magnus’s party, Clary’s best friend, Simon, was transformed to a rat, and stolen from the vampires. Clary, wanting to save Simon, convinces Magnus to tell her where the vampires are and alongside with Jason, ambushes the vampires hideout despite it possibly resulting in immediate death. …show more content…
Next, Clary is stubborn. For instance, Clary doesn’t remember her memories that involves the Shadow World due to a spell blocking her from doing so, and to undo the spell to regain her memories, she visits Magnus Bane, the man who implanted the spell unto her mind. However, he is unable to do it without damaging her brain, and she’ll soon regain her memories soon enough as the spell is now beginning to fade. Clary responds, “‘But I don’t want to wait.’ Clary folded her hands tightly in her lap, her fingers clamped together so hard that the tips turned white. ‘All my life I’ve felt like there was something wrong with me. Something missing or damaged. Now I know-” (Clare 230-231). Clary still wants her memories back, and Magnus, angry, rants, that he didn’t damaged her, and that every teenager feels that way, not only her. He further sets his stance that her mother was trying to protect her so she shouldn’t get involved. Clary says, “‘I don’t care if I’m different,’”
People have goals everyday, believe it or not some people think that dreams aren't worth it. I believe that it is worth it to dream because it gives a person a goal, it makes them feel good, and it makes them stronger. I know this from The Pearl, A Cubs video, the Susan Boyle video, and We Beat the streets.
If you have children in tow, and are looking for a family-fun, delightful movie to watch, “Song of the South” is worth a viewing. Or perhaps you are a fan of the Uncle Remus tales you have read when you were little, then “Song of the South” will certainly give some justice to those fun tales.
In The House of The Scorpion, Matt a clone of the twisted and rich El Patron was completely unaware of his reason of existence, to become spare parts. Matt is constantly asking questions about his and others existence. These questions helped guide him on his life’s journey, inform us about his character, and they helped him discover the true hero inside of him.
Two good stories by H. P. Lovecraft are The Very Old Folk and The Terrible Old Man. The Very Old Folk expresses more on the results of fear than the darkness in people’s hearts and how corrupt they can be. The terrible Old Man expresses more on the darkness within people’s hearts and how corrupt they can become. H. P. Lovecraft writes horror stories to display the darkness is people’s hearts, how easy it is to become corrupt, and the results of fear.
In the end Clary finds out where Valentine is and she knows that her mom and Jace would not be too far from him. She and her moms friend Luke go to an old warehouse where Valentine and his cult are. Jace is dressed in new clothes and seems to be not harmed but well taken cared for, while her mother,Jocelyn, lay in a coma and bound to the bed “for her own protection” as Valentine would say. The story ends with Valentine going through a portal with the mortal cup and everything going back to the way it once had been.
In the novel The Glass Castle, there are many reasons why a family might be unhappy.
In the passages “Red Cranes” by Jacey Choy and “The Friefly Hunt” by Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, the authors present two characters that share many characteristics. The authors portray two different characters that come together with the main thought of imagination. Through this imagination, the characters can be seen as very similar. After careful analysis of both passages, the reader can decipher how each attribute of each character can be related back to each other.
Before going to Alaska, Chris McCandless had failed to communicate with his family while on his journey; I believe this was Chris’s biggest mistake. Chris spent time with people in different parts of the nation while hitchhiking, most of them whom figured out that McCandless kept a part of him “hidden”. In chapter three, it was stated that Chris stayed with a man named Wayne Westerberg in South Dakota. Although Westerberg was not seen too often throughout the story, nevertheless he was an important character. Introducing himself as Alex, McCandless was in Westerberg’s company for quite some time: sometimes for a few days, other times for several weeks. Westerberg first realized the truth about Chris when he discovered his tax papers, which stated that “McCandless’s real name was Chris, not Alex.” Wayne further on claims that it was obvious that “something wasn’t right between him and his family” (Krakauer 18). Further in the book, Westerberg concluded with the fact that Chris had not spoken to his family “for all that time, treating them like dirt” (Krakauer 64). Westerberg concluded with the fact that during the time he spent with Chris, McCandless neither mentioned his
There, Clary learns that she possesses blood of the Shadowhunters although she is not part of the Clave. In addition, Clary learns more about her family history as she realizes her mother was a Shadowhunter who once was forced to be part of the Circle, a group who plans to rid the world of demons and replenish the group of Shadowhunters with the Mortal Cup. Not only that, but she shocked as her mother was Valentine’s wife. As the story progresses, Clary memories of the Shadow World have come back and she remembers that her mother painted the Mortal Cup on Dorothea's tarot cards. Due with her newfound power of summoning inanimate objects, she able to retrieve the Mortal Cup.
A game, that is all that life is. In the book, The Lovely Bones, each family member has a certain game piece to play with in their game Monopoly. Susie’s game piece was the Monopoly shoe. The Monopoly shoe represents how Susie walked out of life early. The Monopoly shoe helped explain a lot of things for the Salmon family. The shoe helped Buckley understand that Susie was no longer living, the shoe helped Jack realize that he needed to let go of Susie, and the shoe helped Susie realize that she needed to stop wanting the living to be with her in heaven.
In the story, Young Goodman Brown, the character, Goodman Brown changes throughout the story. In the beginning he was a kind man, loving husband with nothing holding him down, not even the warnings of his wife, Faith. As he walked and talked with the Devil, he became more aware of what had happened in the past with his own family. When he saw the Devil talk with Goody Cloyse on the path in the woods, he figured out by the nature of their conversation that the Devil was more mischievous than he thought. He started to have uncertainties about the errand he was on. At that point, Goodman Brown told the devil he was not going another step. Shortly after the Devil left him in the path, Brown found a ribbon on a branch of a tree
Although, in a split second his confidence can be altered. The author states, “The ice in Jace’s chest turned into liquid fire; he clenched his hands at his sides as Simon took Clary gently by the arms.” Jace cannot stand the idea of Clary and Simon together. Although, he quickly gains his composure back when Clary looks hesitantly around the room trying to escape Simon. The look on Clary’s face gives relief for Jace’s fearful heart and allows him to surmise that Clary has not lost her faith in them. Jace’s belief in their clandestine relationship is inspirational to all readers. He is standing up for what he believes and is not backing down on his desires, even if the whole world is against him. This shows he is mentally and physically strong, capable of overcoming many situations. With this inner relief Jace has enough confidence to continue their relationship with only minor
Throughout the two stories we read they both show a form of alcohol used to try to escape whatever problem the characters are facing. In both of these stories the characters are struggling with their relationships. in “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway Jig and the American are sitting outside a lot drinking at one point joig says “I wanted to try this new drink. That’s all we do, isn’t it-look at the things and try new drinks?” (Hemingway 476) This shows how often Jig and the American drink. They spend most their time trying new drinks and trying to avoid and problems they could possibly be facing. In “You Were Perfectly Fine” by Dorothy Parker. Peter doesn’t start off drinking, but he eventually does at one point he says “do
Readers frequently wonder while reading a fiction book, if the character could live in the real world. In the short story, The Cask of Amontillado, written by Edgar Allan Poe, the relevancy of the question that could be applied flawlessly. Although Fortunato is not the main character, he plays an important role in the overall plot structure. Fortunato, the antagonist who is a greedy and untrustworthy man, is arguably a believable character. This is because of his motivation, character traits, and the irony that is correlated with his situation.
middle of paper ... ... Memory can be triggered by anything, causing life to run in a continual loop between the past and the future, the truth and the dream. Peter and Clarissa will always be shaped by their memories; that is, the core of their being. As Clarissa descends the stairs at the end of her party, Peter wonders “what is this terror?