Cassandra Clare

mean. When Jace was very young, he saw his father murdered in front of him. Then he moved to the institute in New York from his home in Idris. Where he got a new family, a good family. The book is The mortal instruments: City of Bones written by Cassandra Clare. “Because” he said, “we’re about to be in the middle of a war” Here Jace and Clary (the other protagonist) had gotten themselves in a sticky situation. They went into vampire territory to save Clary’s best friend Simon and then the…

The Copper Gauntlet HOOK: “No! You can’t go” ,Alastair lunged for Call, grabbing his arm. His Father wasn’t a big man, but he was lean and long and wiry. Call slipped and went down hard on the concrete, landing the wrong way on his leg. Pain shot up his body, making his vision swim. Over Havoc’s barking, Call heard his father saying, “You can’t go back to the Magisterium. I have to fix this. I promise you, i will fix it -” He means he’s going to kill me, Call thought. He means i’ll be…

Parent’s should not be able to interfere with their child’s dating life. It causes rifts between the parents, the child to feel confined and untrusted, and the child to branch out rebelliously against the parent when unable to learn for themselves. In June of 1992, the 18 year old known as Renee Phillips brought home a boy. He was a good looking 6”1, 190 solid pounds of hunk and partyboy. Not exactly the mother's approval type, and Renee knew that. She headed up her porch, the boy close behind…

I am reading The City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare and I am on page 184. This book is about shadowhunters who are half human and half angel. Which they just got out of a war called the Mortal War that was shadowhunters and downworlders together against Valentine and his son Jonathan. The shadowhunters won and Valentine and Johnathon are dead. They are now on their way to rebuild the way of life that they have always known. In this journal I will be questioning and predicting. G- I…

Some authors just throw in big words in their work to make it of a higher level of reading but with Cassandra Clare her word choice just flows in with the story. Her diction and explanations of things help the reader to better understand the things she wants them to picture. Throughout the whole book everything is described in such detail it almost feels…

The world is constantly evolving, but as the world advances, so does the significance of many things that was important years ago. Today, reading is becoming scarce. People in today’s society rely on the internet and cellphones to gain knowledge because it is quicker and does not require as much reading. As the popularity of social media, internet, and technology rises, the demand for books and writing is slowly disappearing. Even though reading and writing is becoming undesirable, it has always…

In the fifth grade, I had just moved to Riverside, I knew no one and spent a lot of time by myself. Reading became my source of solace. In the eighth grade, I discovered The Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare. Clare has become my idealistic aspiration for creative writing. Though, when I got to high school I joined yearbook. It became my biggest commitment in high school and by my senior year, I was one of the head editors. Around this time, I had no plan for what I wanted to pursue, I…

Stand Up for the Ones Who Can’t Cassandra Clare, a renowned American author, once declared, “Everyone has choices to make; no one has the right to take those choices away from us. Not even out of love.” In North America, individual choices often win over collective choices. Generally, people suppose that they have the right to make their very own decisions by following their personal core values. Since values are deeply held beliefs, individuals strongly wish to honour their principles, even…

Heta Patel Researchers at Wisconsin's Marquette University found that watching comedy clips actually improves memory. The essay that “Watching TV Makes You Smarter” by Steven Johnson argues that many shows on TV that our population claims to be bad are actually healthy for our brains to watch. He explains how the right shows on TV, if watched, will increase your brain activity and will make you think deeper. He considers “good TV” to be any shows that requires one to engage into action. Johnson…

How Much Power does Propaganda Hold? Propaganda, in the English dictionary it is described as information that is impartial and used primarily to influence an audience and further an agenda, often by presenting facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or using loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational responses to the information presented. Many people wish to believe that propaganda is not effective because that would mean that the American people…