The Clockwork Angel Essay

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The Clockwork Angel written by Cassandra Clare was published in 2010 and is the first of three books in the Infernal Devices trilogy and has a total of 448 pages. It is an adventurous story of supernatural beings and clockwork humans. The book contains many quotes from old Victorian Literatures. For example, Charles Dickens’ A Tale Of Two Cities. It takes place in London in 1878. Theresa, Tessa, Grey is a sixteen year old girl who travels from New York to London in hopes of living with her brother Nathaniel, after the death of their Aunt Harriet. When she gets there she doesn’t find her brother waiting for her, but she finds two dark and mysterious women by the names of Mrs. Black and Mrs. Dark. After not hearing from her brother and getting …show more content…

Both are what they call a Shadowhunter, a person that hunts and kills demons. They help her escape and she learns a lot about them when she takes refuge with them in the London Institute, and they swear to help her find her brother. Tessa seems to find herself fascinated and torn between the two friends, Jem is the more quiet type who is hiding a venomous secret, and Will with an attitude keeping everybody, but Tessa, at arms length. Tessa soon finds out her brother is going to a club for vampires, werewolves, fairies, and warlocks, all these are called downworlders, and agrees to turn into a vampire named Camille for a party, so they can find out if the Pandemonium Club is killing Humans, Mundanes, illegally. At this party a warlock by the name Magnus Bane, tells her of a Demonis Clockwork Army in a library. At the party Tessa blows her cover and Will and Jem have to call for backup. They find Nathaniel and bring him back to the institute. The next morning Jem and Tessa go out to Jem’s favorite place and get attacked by a few from the clockwork army and Tessa finds out about Jems’

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