Blog Post #7: Free Choice

I have been reading the book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare and I am about a quarter way into it. So far it's been really interesting and already full of action. What I am wondering about this book mostly is how Jace and Clary are connected. I've learned so far that Clary's mother had possibly been a Shadow hunter, like Jace is, but I want to know why they were put together. Clary and Jace don't exactly get along at times but they do work together alright. What I think might happen is that they start to feel and care for each other or they end up falling in love because by reading this book it's easy to predict that there will be a romance somewhere. If Jace and Clary do end up together, I want to know how Simon will react. It's obvious that Simon likes Clary more than the best friend relationship and that it's one of those typical "Best friends fall in love" sort of scenario.

Blog Post #6: Who is the 'hero' of your book?

I'm still reading the book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. The person I think to be the hero is still Clary. In my last post I talked about how Clary had put herself in danger at the club she had went to how she showed Sacrifice by going after to save the boy. More qualities of a Hero that Clary shows would be Bravery and Selflessness because she did this and stood up to the 3 mysterious strangers with the knives, just to keep the blue haired boy safe.
Reading on from that I found that she showed these qualities more than once. In the book, Clary had been sitting at a poetry reading with her best friend, Simon. She saw one of the more outgoing strangers that had a knife walking out of Java Jones(The place where the reading was). Clary chased after him to confront him. Then after she talked to him and learned what he really was, she got a call from her mother. Her mother was panicked and had told Clary not to go home for it was too dangerous. But Clary, who wanted to protect her mother, ran home to face off a Ravener Demon. "With a feeling of increasing panic she pushed the door open." (Cassandra Clare, page 49) Although she was frightened, she still went through with the search for her mom.

"Superman 'may End US Citizenship'" PROPAGANDA. Propaganda, 30 Apr. 2011. Web. 21 Nov. 2011. http://propaganda-dimitrios.blogspot.com

This is the photo I chose to go along with this post. The reason I chose it is because I believe a Hero can be anyone. Clary was a normal girl (Or so she thought) until she became a hero to protect people. Superman is a good example of how Clary acts, Being a hero when needed and the time is right to be one.

Blog Post #5: Character Archetypes

I'm only about 20 pages into the book City of Bones by Cassandra Clare. So far I haven't really been able to see all the archetypes but I do see the main character, Clary, to be the hero. Not even a few pages into the book, she went after the mysterious people with the knives she saw, just to help save the Blue-haired boy they had trapped in a closet. "Clary could take no more. She stepped out from behind the pillar. "Stop!" she cried. "You can't do this." (Clary, page 12). This is the part of the story where Clary is in the storage room, watching the shadow hunters surround the blue-haired boy. She didn't like it and decided to try and stop it even though she knew the people attacking had knives. This showed self-sacrifice, a quality of a hero.