In The City of Bones by Cassandra Clare, the main character, Clary Fray, changes from being a normal human to a capable and knowledgeable Shadowhunter of the Shadow World and the history of her family because of her mother’s kidnapping that helps her meet Shadowhunters like Jace, and her Shadowhunter blood, the blood of Raziel, that enables her to see the Shadow World. In the beginning of the story, Clary was a normal human living with her artistic mother, Jocelyn, in New York City. However, Clary starts to see odd and weird things that only she can see. For example, when she and her best friend, Simon, are in the Pandemonium, she sees a group of teenagers that claim to be Shadowhunter and are supposedly slaying a demon. Things start to spiral …show more content…
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. Later, when the Mortal Cup was stolen once again, Clary and her father figure, Luke, who admits to her that he was once a Shadowhunter and now a werewolf, to once again take back the Mortal Cup and save her mother and now Jace too. They enter the house and manage to have the capturer, Valentine, retreat, which is impressive in their right as he was a powerful Shadowhunter who was able to evade punishment from the Cave for nearly seventeen
In Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone, we are told the story of Chinese-American family that immigrated to the United States. The story deals with the loss of family, grief and the American Dream while also addressing the narrator’s ethnic background. But the one detail that really sticks out in the book is that it goes backwards in time, starting from when Leila is numb to the death of her sister to the moments after and before it happens. While this choice did stray from the normal conventions of stories, it was necessary in order to captivate the reader’s attention.
In the article, “Fairy Tales and a Dose of Reality,” Catherine Orenstein attempts to show the contrast between the modern romanticism of marriage and the classic fairy tale’s presentation of them (285). She looks at the aristocratic motivations for marriage and the way these motivations are prominent in Cinderella. She then looks at the 20th century to highlight the innate difference of our mentalities, showing a much more optimistic and glorified relationship. In the article, “Cinderella: Not So Morally Superior,” Elisabeth Panttaja claims that Cinderella’s success can be attributed to her craftiness (288). She shows her and her mother as an equal to the stepfamily, analyzing each family’s goals and values. She attempts to show their similarities,
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Talking about the culture brought throughout this book, you’re looking at Latin American culture, specifically the Dominican/Haitian cultures. As I read this book, beyond the many numerous ways she worded her sentences and how the characters spoke, they often spoke with a definant difference than you would hear here in common U.S. language. They would constantly use inferences to what they were talking about, rather than being direct to what they were saying. Things like, “they say we are the burnt crud at the bottom of the pot.” –Amabelle, this is Amabelle talking to her lover, Sebastian, about how there’s talk about the field workers and the housemaids to the Dominicans, and them being “nothing”, inferring that they are poorer than the Dominicans.
Edwidge Danticat novel, The Farming of Bones, provides readers with an understanding of the relations of Haitians and Dominicans by chronicling the Haitians escape from the Dominican Republic following the parsley massacre and emphasizing the importance of remembering the past. Though it is a work of fiction, Danticat is able to present characters and plot points that illustrate the racial and ethnic relations between Haiti and The Dominican Republic that led to the spread of antihaitianismo. The main themes of the novel explores the impact of nationalism and the formation of ethnic/racial formation through the characters actions which allows the reader to understand the ethnic/racial tension occurring at the time on a much personal level,
Massacre in Edwidge Danticat's Farming of Bones. The massacre that Edwidge Danticat describes in The Farming of Bones is a historical event. In 1937, the Dominican Republic’s dictator, Rafael Trujillo, ordered the slaughter of Haitians on the border of the two countries. Twelve thousand Haitians died during the massacre (Roorda 301).
There are multiple reasons why a book can be banned or challenged. Book banning causes the removal of materials in schools and libraries due to “inappropriate” content. The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, was banned due to sexual content and language.
She explains to the community that the current cycle that her father and the adults created is not going to work out forever. While under the current cycle, many outsiders snuck their way inside the community and stole money and food. Not only that, the watchers noticed that the thieves carried guns. She mentions to the crowd about her recurring nightmares where she is levitating and flies toward the door of her room.
Moers, Ellen. "Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother." Reprinted in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Norton Critical Edition. 1976; New York: W. W. Norton, 1996. 214-224.
Over the summer, after taking a break from reading a novel just for entertainment, I sat down to read How to Read Literature like a Professor and it was the exact novel to refresh and supplement my dusty analysis skills. After reading and applying Foster’s novel, How to Read Literature like a Professor, towards The Bonesetter’s Daughter I found a previously elusive and individualized insight towards literature. Although, The Bonesetter’s Daughter is full of cryptic messages and a theme that is universal, I was able to implement an individual perspective on comprehending the novel’s universal literary devices, and coming upon the unique inference that Precious Auntie is the main protagonist of the novel.
The character I choose from the novel Lovely Bones is Mr. Harvey. His role in this novel was that he is a serial Killer. What is a serial killer? A serial killer is someone that killed more than three people over a period more than a month. Mr. Harvey killed Susie the main character in this novel. He rapped her, and cut her body up, and packaged it, and drove 8 miles and dumped it in a sinkhole.. Mr. Harvey doesn't really have a family. His dad abandons his mom after the argument that they next to the car in the streets over truth and consequences in Mexico. His mom was desperate that she taught him how to steal and shoplift. We know that his father was an abusive person. He also taught him about buildings. We know that Mr. Harvey’s life and Susie’s are the not exactly the same. In fact we know its the total opposite. Mr. Harvey never know what love is, since his father was abusive and his mother was a thief. Susie always had a loving family. Her dad and mom loved her and was overly protective.
we are told that this story is about a girl or a woman and perhaps her
One world up above where they can watch over the ones below. Susie in The Lovely Bones she has restricted use and effects on earth, because she is in heaven up above. Alice Sebold portrays these events through the view of Susie Salmon, Susie have the ability to know what everyone is thinking. Sebold shows that young love have many differences to those that are also in love, but mature. Susie the narrator, attitude toward the lover of young and old also is different. There is also a unique character in the novel, his name is George Harvey, and his view on love is extremely different.
The Shadow Quest series is a distinctive combination of genres that comes in paperback and ebook format. While they are classified as paranormal romances, they also include aspects of dark fantasy, sci-fi space epic, and action adventure. The novels incorporate all manner of the supernatural ranging from vampires, witches, fairies, dragons, demons and the liberal sprinkling of human characters. The Shadow Quest novels could also fit the classification of adult romance as some of the plotlines feature the love stories of alien characters that are loosely derived from popular lore and mythology. The novels introduce a new character in each novel with mysterious powers that struggle against another supernatural character with different yet equal strength power.
“City of Bones”, written by Cassandra Clare, is a fantasy and adventure book aimed towards the young adult crowd. The story begins with teenager Clary when she stumbles across a scene that she believes to be a murder. In this incident, Clary meets three other teenagers who label themselves as shadowhunters, “people who kill [demons]” (Clare 44). It is these very teenagers, Alec Lightwood, Izzy Lightwood, and most importantly, Jace Wayland, who help to guide Clary when her mother goes missing several days later and she herself is attacked by a demon. Before she knows it, Clary is pulled into the magic realm filled with everything she had thought was impossible and goes on to learn that “all the stories are true” (Clare 485).
Mustafa entrusts the main character with his affairs after his death, including the key to a private chamber. When the central character enters the mysterious room and uncovers Mustafa's past, the identity conflict becomes apparent: