City Of Bones Themes

“The boy never cried again, and he never forgot what he 'd learned: that to love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed.” This is a quote from the extraordinary book, City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare. This New York Times Bestseller is a Young Adults Fiction book with 5 more books following it. The themes are love, revenge, and jealousy; these themes, however, intertwine each other throughout the book. The main characters are Clarissa ‘Clary’ Fray, Jace Wayland, Alec and Isabelle Lightwood, Simon Lewis, and Lucian ‘Luke’ Graymark. Throughout the whole book, Clare emphasizes the mixture between love, revenge and jealousy and how they all add up to each other. The book starts with Clary partying with her best friend, Simon, at a teen club called Pandemonium. There she sees some strangely behaving attractive teens who enter a storage room and later Clary follows them to see that they killed a demon. The next day, Clary gets in a fight with her mother and she goes to a poetry reading with Simon, where she sees Jace, one of the demon hunters (later explained to be called Shadowhunters). When she heads back to the apartments she finds the place deserted except for a demon who she manages to kill but not before it bites her and she later passes out. She is

Unrequited love makes things even more complicated. There is an unrequited love between Simon and Clary and between Alec and Jace (Alec is gay and Simon has been in love with Clary for ten years and counting). It’s not clear yet at this point in the series but Isabelle is most likely falling for Simon. Incest also complicates their relationships. Jace and Clary are falling hard for each other but the only thing holding them back is the fact that they’re siblings. Luke was always in love with Jocelyn (Clary’s mom) and always felt jealous of their