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City Of Bones Character Analysis

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Abstract: In recent young adult urban fantasy literature, the heroic character and the heroic journey have become one of the most important elements, as supernatural and futuristic elements allow exploration of all kinds of traits and decisions that create the idealized state which heroes represent. Frequently, the protagonist is unwilling to be a champion, or is of low or timid origin. Though events are mostly beyond their control, the protagonists are thrust into points of huge importance where their caliber is proved in a number of divine and physical challenges. The several tasks presented throughout the hero’s journey transform the characters into heroes. Simon, one of the protagonists of The Mortal Instruments is originally introduced …show more content…

He is then rescued by Clary and her friends where Simon bites Raphael Santhiago, a vampire to save himself. Though he is rescued, he already tasted the vampire blood. Simon constantly feels sick and soon came to the conclusion that he might be changing into a vampire. In City of Ashes, Simon goes to the Hotel Dumort and was bitten and nearly killed by the vampires’ clan, but was saved by their leader Raphael. He took the nearly dead Simon to the Institute and passed to Clary, Jace, and Isabelle the option to either let Simon die or have him resurrected as a vampire. Clary decides to bury him in a Jewish cemetery and let him rise as a vampire. He dies and with the help of Raphael, revives as a fledgling vampire. He enters the magical world by becoming a …show more content…

Simon, Magnus and the others summoned Azazel who says that he could free Jace from Sebastian if they were willing to free him into the world. They banished him briefly and acknowledged that this cannot be done. When they called Azazel again to tell him that they wouldn't help him, Simon accidentally slipped inside the pentagram, and Azazel framed to kill him when Simon showed him his Mark of Cain. Azazel admitted that he couldn't harm him and vanished.

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Simon also gets an opportunity to walk within the forest and would disagree with Jack. Simon who was also on the choir before landing on the island. However, unlike the rest of the choir Simon decides not to join the hunters but become a part of the group led by Ralph. When Ralph and Jack go off to debate Simon goes of into the jungle for a walk. Simon, an anomaly to the group is not noticeably absent from this war of words.

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The idea of a hero is explored differently in the ancient Anglo-Saxon text Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. During the time period of both of the stories being a hero is very important to everyone. Beowulf is not a true hero, even if he tries to make himself out to seem like a true hero, based on modern ideas of the Hero. In the poem Beowulf being a hero is very important to the main character Beowulf.

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His suffering is caused by worrying over the sins of his friends, just as Christ bled from every pore to pay for the price of man’s sins. Simon decides to discover where the beast lives and protect his friend from it’s evil. His seizure left him weak and weary, but he pressed on to find the beast. He frees the parachutist from it’s bonds, just as Christ freed us from the chains of death and hell. He struggles through the dense jungle to deliver the message of truth.

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The concept of “The Hero’s Journey” plays a major role in nearly every piece of fiction humanity has created since its inception, from epic poems to blockbuster movies. In many ways, works of fiction and some pieces of nonfiction could not exist and would not make sense without the concept of a Hero’s Journey; it allows the reader to comprehend and follow the progression of characters over the course of the story. While Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road may not display most of the archetypal qualities found in classic Hero’s Journeys such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit or Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, it most clearly exemplifies the qualities of a Hero’s Journey through the Boy’s character in relation to the mentor, tests and enemies, and the

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