Themes Of Fledgling By Octavia Butler And The Mortal Instruments By Cassandra Clare

The theme of the novel Fledgling by Octavia Butler is “don’t give up, keep going” with the main characters trying to make things right, even if they don’t know what to and that their friends will always have their back and the same goes for the book The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. Because both of their themes forces on persevering; getting through tough times and always have your friends there to support you - but they write in completely different ways. -

The connecting themes for both authors is the main character in both books is very headstrong and they were both thrown in to a very new world and want to find out answers

An example from Butler is I stopped and looked at myself. My skin was scarred, badly scarred over every part of my body that I could see. The scars were broad, creased, shiny patches of mottled red-brown skin. Had I always been scarred? Was my face scarred? ( Butler, 16 ). And an example for Cassandra Clare is It lurched forward into the shallow water at the edge of the river. Clary was flung against the cab’s back window as the truck moved forward into the river- was Luke planning to drown them all? ( Clare, 805

This helps with the development of the story by letting us - the readers - know when something is going to happen when the characters are talking to each other this is where we can see some of the tones coming out. But with The Mortal Instruments there are so many different tones throughout the book like exited, envious, forthright, some of the characters are fearful and others are egotistical. The reason there are so many tones in The Mortal Instruments is