The City of Bones: Characters

There were multiple main characters in this book, but I would say that overall the two main characters would be Jace and Clary. Jace is a teenage shadowhunter, which is someone that hunts demons for the greater good of the regular people, who are referred to as mundanes. He usually acts very over confident which rubs off on people the wrong way and makes him seem like a jerk. "Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored." Jace's ability to control his emotions aided him into becoming one of the best shadowhunters his age. Also his strikingly good looks and muscular build added to his angel like appearance. Even though he can be rude at times he knows he will always have his brother Alex, and sister Isabelle at his side. Jace had been adopted into their family and began to live in the institute after both his parents had died. I think that he would be a perfect example of a dynamic, round character. I think this because in the book the author introduced the character to the reader so well (through indirect characterization) that I could imagine that I had already known him for a long period of time. Also Jace had experienced many changes throughout the book such as learning more about his family and his past which will never allow him to be the same again.

The second main character in the book was a girl named Clary. She's a fifteen year old that lives with her single mother. Her father had died before she was even born so she never really had a connection with him. Her mother is a professional painter and that artistic ability had gotten passed down to Clary as well. At the beginning of the book Shes lived a normal, human life all up until she meets Jace Wayland. One day when she was at a club with her best friend Simon, she sees a small group of people that no one else sees. So she goes to inspect them and meets Jace, Isabelle, and Alec. They then introduce her to the world of shadowhunters, demons, and warlocks. But before Clary can go confront her mother about all the new things she learned about herself, shes finds that someone had come and kidnapped her. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." As she continues to search for her mother, Jocelyn her shadowhunter instincts begin to kick in and her "third" eye gives her a whole new perspective of the world. Clary would be another good example of a dynamic, round character in the book because of how drastically her life changed from being a regular person to a shadowhunter, who she has believed her entire life was just a myth.