Lucy Fray Conflicts

What if demons, werewolves, and vampires were real? In Clary Fray’s world, they are. They live amongst everyone, but are able to act like ordinary people. In this journal, I will be analyzing three conflicts that occur in this book. In Clare’s book, the biggest character versus character conflict is between Jace and Simon. Jace Wayland was Clary’s crush, but ends up finding out that they are brother and sister. However, they still have unresolved feelings for each other, which makes Simon jealous. Simon is Clary’s best friend and has had feelings for her for a long time: “It hadn’t always been like this, even after he’d realized how he felt about Clary. He’d never pressed her, never pushed his feelings on her. He’d always been sure that

Maryse Lightwood is a Shadowhunter who was part of a circle of people that believed that their beliefs were right and the government’s were wrong. The government is called the Clave and they make all the rules that every downworlder has to follow. The circle’s leader is named Valentine and during the Uprising he vanished, leaving all of his followers to die. But they didn’t die; they were captured by the Clave and were questioned by the Inquisitor. She used the Soul-Sword to tell if they were lying or telling the truth: “’Oh, the Clave made that point nicely when they questioned us—they had the Soul-Sword and they knew when we were lying, but they couldn’t make us tall—nothing could make us talk, until—‘” (Clare 60). Eventually, Maryse found out the truth about what really happened, which made her despise Valentine. Now, Maryse is loyal to the Clave not because she wants to be, but because she has to be. The Clave spared her life, so that she could enforce the law like a Shadowhunter is supposed to do. Maryse continuously expresses her discrepancy towards Valentine ever since she has learned the truth. This conflict is important to the overall plot of the book because since Maryse has had trouble trusting anyone that is involved with Valentine, which is Jace’s father. Because of this Maryse has kicked Jace out of the Institute because Jace couldn’t say that he hated his father. For knowing Maryse for seven years, Jace has

Clary is one of the main characters in this book. For all her life, she has lived a normal life. Now that she knows that she is a shadowhunter that normal life is gone and she will never get it back. With this new life comes challenges. One challenge is to pick between Simon and Jace. Simon is a link to her old life; with him she feels normal and she feels like herself. With Jace , she feels like she is opening a new chapter in her life with her newfound brother; she is finding a new side of herself that she never knew was there. The shadowhunter world is confusing to Clary and in it she loses her old self and lets her new self overcome her However, she doesn’t know who she really is: “’Somebody’s girlfriend,’ she said. ‘Somebody’s sister, somebody’s daughter. All these things I never knew I was before, and I still don’t really know what I am” (Clare 83). While she is trying to figure out who she really is, she is always listening to what Simon and Jace expect from her. Simon expects her to be the Clary, he is best friends with, the Clary from the human world with no Shadowhunters, werewolves, or vampires. While Jace wants her to be his Shadowhunter sister and help him figure out what actually happened to their father. This conflict is important because with Clary not knowing who she really is, how can she expect herself to do what she is expected to do? Throughout this book, she embarks on a journey to find out who she really