City Of Bones Themes

In the book “City of Bones” by Cassandra Clare, there are many different themes that like to hide in conflicts, character emotions/actions, and archetypes. While I was tracking themes in my book, all of these components add up and show significance. The author Cassandra Clare used these different techniques, (also known as author’s craft) in her book to make these . In the following paragraphs, it will explain how some of these components interact within the text among those components. In the beginning to think, there are some emotions and actions the main character, Clary, faces while a major conflict in the beginning of the book took place. The main conflict that happened, was that there was a murder that took place in a club where the …show more content…
One emotion that in the eyes of Clary that I see, is confusion. The reason why I believe that confusion can have a roll in possible themes is how Clary interprets it. We find on page 100, how this emotion of confusion plays out. “Clary’s mind was throbbing with too much to think about. If I could see that blue haired boy getting murdered, why couldn’t Simon? I don’t think that it has to do with being an artist, Clary thought.” What happened was that after Clary asks Luke, (her mom’s friend), if it’s normal to see people that nobody else can see. Luke responds by telling Clary that she’s like her mother, an artist seeing the world differently. Because of this, Clary feels confusion. This gives me an idea that a possible theme could be, “confusion can often lead to shock, it’s a matter of being deceived.” I think that the theme I stated before could be a possible theme because, Clary is still in shock from after the party which leads her to the emotion of confusion. She feels that Luke knows something more than what he telling her, which that is the deceitful part. This shows how different character emotions and actions can be possible