Fire By Kristin Cashore

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Fire is a fantasy novel by Kristin Cashore, the novel is about a girl named Fire who lives in the land of Dells. Fire is the last human monster, who is beautiful and amazingly talented. Fire is so beautiful that she has the ability to control human and animals minds when they are around her. When I read this novel, I felt anxious. I felt this because the story was so engaging that I began to feel connected to the characters. For example, when Fire was shot by the hunter in the forest, It made me feel anxious because I felt uncertain whether she would survive or not. This is relevant in today's society when people feel that they are connected to celebrities that have a large social influence, people see what they are doing in their life and begin to feel like they know them and gain certain emotions towards them. Emotions such as love, hate and envy. An interesting idea that this novel made me think about was how people can use their charm to get what they want in the world. We see …show more content…

The author seemed to be suggesting that Fire is relating to other women around the world by hiding her face to not draw attention to herself. We see this in the text when Fire hides her face using a scarf to protect herself from lusty men and things that would be tempted by her beauty. This shows us that Fire hides her hair just like most muslim women around the world because it may cause temptation for people. They only show their hair to their husband and father. I think this is very weird and also intriguing. Some Muslim cover their hair with a Hijab for religious reasons, But Fire does it for her own protection. I think that it is fair for Muslim women to cover their hair when they leave the house because they do it for their god (Allah) and to stop temptation. I think that Muslim males would see it as disgraceful to see a Muslim woman who isn't their wife of daughter without a