Novel+Study+Focus+Assignment

City of Bones Cassandra Clare

Plot Outline Introduction- In the introduction, the main characters: Clary, Simon, Clary's mom, Jace, Isabelle, and Alec are introduced. Also, the idea of demons, and Shadowhunters, are introduced. The setting of this novel is in New York City.

The rising action of the book starts when Clary's mom phones her and tells her to stay away from home. Clary returns home immediatley, and finds that her mom is missing. Also there is a scorpion looking thing in her apartment, that poisons her. Then, one of the Shadowhunters, Jace, comes in and brings her to a building called The Institute where she is healed.

After that, she goes back to her apartment with Jace, and there they find a giant monster, that Jace kills, but not before his arm is broken. They then go into the downstairs apartment of Madame Dorothy, the daughter of an actual witch. They talk for a little while, but then Clary leaps through a Portal, and ends up in her Uncle Luke's yard. They go around back to get inside, and find Simon is spying on Luke's house. They all go inside and start looking around when they hear people. They hide from them and find that Luke used to work for Valentine, Who now becomes the Antagonist.

They go back to the Institute and tell Hodge (Jace's tutor) about this, and Hodge tells them about the Circle, a group of Shadowhunters that tried to kill all Downworlders, Faeries, Warlocks, Vampires, and Werewolves. He also tells them that Him, the Lightwoods (Isabelle and Alec's mother and father), Clary's mom, and Luke were in the Circle. Then he contacts the Silent Brothers, to see why Clary can suddenly see demons.

The silent brother finds that there is a block on Clary's mind. So they go to The City of Bones, which is where all of the monks live. They find out that Clary's block was placed on her mind by a warlock called Magnus Bane, the high Warlock of Brooklyn.

The shadowhunters eventually find where he lives, and go to asks him why the block was put on Clary's mind. He tells them that her mom wanted her never to see anything of the shadowhunters world. They had arrived during a party, and while they were talking to magnus, Simon managed to get himself turned into a rat. Now they have to rescue Simon from some Vampires that took him by mistake. They go to the Vampire's place and rescue Simon, after being caught in the middle of a turf war between Werewolves and Vampires. They rescue Simon and escape back to the Institute.

After they get there, Jace talk to Clary and they kiss, which makes Simon mad. After that, Clary starts to draw, but she also draws a rune in the corner of the page. this allows her to bring the drawing out of the paper, and into real life. This leads her to believe that the Mortal Cup is in a painting, and they go off in search of it. When they get to where they think that it is, they get it out of the painting, but just then a Greater Demon comes out of the Portal. They battle it, then return to the Institute after defeating it.

Climax- When they get back, they give the Cup to Hodge, who turns around (figuratively) and gives it to Valentine. He then leaves.

Concluding Action- They follow Valentine to his base of operation, and find Clary's mom. Then they find Valentine who goes through the Portal. He then smashes it so that they can't follow him.

I thought that this was a good story. The climax isn't resolved, but that is because it is in a series.