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Cinder Character Analysis

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Marissa Meyer’s sci/fi fantasy story,Cinder takes place in New Beijing, part of the Eastern Commonwealth. Cinder is no regular sixteen year old girl, she is cyborg which means she has mechanical body parts replacing human ones, lost in an accident. Cinder is a talented mechanic which means the pressure is always on her to fix royal androids. Though, Cinder is always put down by herself and others. This makes it extremely hard for Cinder to believe in the power and strength she really has. Imagine trying to believe in yourself when not even your family believes in you? Hard right? A lesson that Meyer conveyed throughout the book is to never underestimate yourself or your power, because in the long run that can end up hurting you. From the …show more content…

During this chapter the doctors are trying to figure out a cure to the deadly plague Letumosis. Since no one in New Beijing thinks anything great about Cinder they decided to perform tests on her. This is when the doctors states” With your help we can save hundreds of thousands of lives… She was immune. She was important” (Meyers, p.102). Since Cinder is immune to the plague, it means that Dr.Erland thinks no one is better than Cinder, then maybe Cinder will appreciate herself more. Here, Cinder can create a cure for the plague because she is one of the only people lucky enough to be immune to it. Cinder is treated as if she is worth way more than anyone else. Maybe if people always treated Cinder kind like in this chapter, she would not think of herself as worthless. Looking deeper into this evidence the found that the author used short and long sentences to really grasp the reader right into the scene and make them get excited over the passage. The author writes,”With your help we can save hundreds of thousands of lives. She was immune. She was important” While reading this you almost feel happy for Cinder that she is finally being appreciated by someone. The short and long sentences definitely change the feel of the passage because it puts you at the edge of your seat, wanting to turn the page to find out what

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