Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones

The Savior One can be so righteous, but can they consider themselves righteous enough to consider themselves a prophet? In this untitled painting from the video game Bioshock: Infinite, there’s an elderly man by the name of Zachery Hale Comstock who appears to be leading an entire group of people to what seems like heaven. Comstock has come from a background so troubling that he had to change his original name to what it is now. The people in the painting follow Comstock to the heaven-like city of Columbia to be saved from the unholy land. Columbia, the flying city seems to be the light that shines in the dark for everyone to come to.

Who is "the flabby devil" who is "running the show'? Why is Marlow so frustrated by what he sees in Africa and by the Europeans he meets?

When taking the time to examine the characters of Annette Reille, from the play, and Nancy Cowan, from Carnage, it is easy to find their likenesses, but there are also some noticeable differences. One of the main reasons for all of these differences is merely different interpretations of the character by different readers. For example, the tone in which certain lines are said or in the way a certain action is portrayed can change the whole personality of a character. When reading, the reader portrays each of the characters as he/ she believes them to be, but then another reader could have a difference of opinion and change the whole attitude; this was the case if you consider the readers to be myself and Kate Winslet.

In my opinion having a good name and telling the truth are both good things, I think that telling the truth is more important than having a good name. If you are out drinking and driving and you kill someone, you don't want to have a bad name so you don't admit to it and that haunts you for the rest of your life where as if you would have told the truth it wouldn't haunt you as much and you would have the best reputation but at least you told the truth and did what's right.

Heart of Darkness, written by Joseph Conrad and “Apocalypse Now”, a movie directed by Francis Coppola represent two outstanding examples that compare relevant ideas regarding racism, colonialism, and prejudices. The two combine film along with descriptive language to portray their mastery during different eras. For Heart of Darkness, Conrad uses his writing techniques to illustrate Marlow in the Congo, while in “Apocalypse Now”, Coppola uses film editing and close ups on important scenes with unique sounds to identify Willards’ quest for Kurtz. Both portray the idea of colonization in foreign lands that otherwise may have been uninhabited by their own people if left alone.

The Crucible is a play constructed on conflict, lies and deception, written by Arthur Miller in 1952. The key theme of this theatrical four-act drama is ‘Wheels within wheels’. Set in Salem, in the heart of puritan Massachusetts, in 1692, the plot follows a community of villagers plagued by accusations of witchcraft. Amidst the executions of their friends, the remaining villagers turn to religion, rumours and secrets to alleviate the tragedy, and gravity of the circumstances unfolding on their doorsteps. Throughout the play, we become progressively responsive to the fact that sex/sexual repression are the motives behind a significant volume of

Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 film Inglourious Bastards entails a Jewish revenge fantasy that is told through a counterfactual history of events in World War II. However, this story follows a completely different plot than what we are currently familiar with. Within these circumstances, audiences now question the very ideas and arguments that are often associated with World War II. We believe that Inglourious Basterds is a Jewish revenge fantasy that forces us to rethink our previous understandings by disrupting the viewers sense of content and nature in the history of World War II. Within this thesis, this paper will cover the Jewish lens vs. American lens, counter-plots with-in the film, ignored social undercurrents, and the idea that nobody

When one is done wrong in a particularly hurtful or offending way, getting revenge is sometimes thought of as the most satisfying way of regaining ones sense of self worth. This plan, however, holds an immense possibility of backfiring in ways never dreamed of. In fact, the outcome of the situation at hand is sometimes made worse than it might have been if this course of action is taken. Arthur Miller demonstrates this in his tragic play The Crucible, by showing the reader that although giving in to feelings of vengeance is easy to do, choosing the path of forgiveness often leads to better results in the long run.

The title The Death Cure, seems almost oxymoronic, falsely true. From the first book, The Maze Runner, it seems like WICKED is desperately searching for a cure that could possibly prevent the extinction of the human race from the Flare. Mainly, The Death Cure is focusing on the cure to the disease. But as we read on, it seems like there was never a cure, but death. The cure looks like it could be letting everyone who has been infected, die while the immunes get to start over. WICKED should have been searching for a way to stop the spread of the disease instead of finding a cure for death, which has been their main problem.

"They lay there listening, at first with doubt but then with terror to the description the twins breathed at them between bouts of extreme silence. Soon the darkness was full of claws, full of the awful unknown and menace." At this time of the book, Sam and Eric (or Samneric) found the dead body of the pilot but because it was dark, they mistook it for the unknown and ran back to camp believing they saw the claws of the beast. This takes the fear of the beast over the edge. They all believe that the beast as real and they all start getting paranoid and light fires and only go in the forest in groups. This event is a major turning point in the book; it also is the cause of Simon's death later in the book.

How does one person expect to leave an impact on society? Well some people just do, sometimes it just works out like that. Although for Mark Twain he worked vigorously to be remembered. He taught lessons, was extremely wise and now people are fighting for him and his honor, now if that's not leaving an impact than what is? People may say that he only “wrote little books” or “books cannot leave that much of an impact”, they still left an impact on society because they were and still are phenomenal.

“ In The Cask of Amontillado”, Edgar Allen Poe offers a complex and often disturbing portrait of the narrator, Montresor. His desire for revenge has always been a major part of the motive for his actions. Montresor is responsible for the death of Fortunato because Montresor does not allow an insult to remain unpunished. His desire for revenge was so well planed that we can see that Montresor did not waste one second of his time. The Cast of Amontillado is a portrait of taking revenge in a very unpleasant manner.

The Fallout franchise is nearly 20 years old, but the history of the series goes back far more than 20 years. While Fallout can easily be considered the studios most successful franchise, their legacy goes beyond the post apocalyptic, being publishers of such games as Descent 3, Baldur’s Gate, and the developers of Wasteland. Baldur’s Gate and Descent 3 certainly helped shape Interplay into the developers they would eventually become, but it was Wasteland, first released in 1988 on the Apple 2 computer, that really laid the foundation for Fallout. Not only did Wasteland pave the way for Fallout, it nearly single handedly brought a genre to mainstream audiences.

Evil: Morally bad or wrong; wicked. Causing ruin, injury, or pain; harmful. Characterized by or indicating future misfortune; ominous. Bad or blameworthy by report; infamous. Characterized by anger or spite; malicious. The definition of evil, a term used very cautiously in modern society, is very diverse among different people. In Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, the term evil is articulated through several ways mainly four characters: the cruelty within the people of the Belgian Congo, main mystery of Kurtz, the setting upon which the characters reside, and the atmosphere in which the Belgian Congo produces from the elements prior stated. The smarter Europeans used their intelligence and arms strength to cruelly overcome the weaker

‘Everything you’ve heard about monsters, about nightmares, legends whispered around campfires...all the stories are true’- Isabelle Lightwood. ‘The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones’, written by Cassandra Clare in the early 2000’s, follows the seemingly ordinary teenager, Clary Fray as she discovers that she descents from a line of warriors, locked in an ancient battle to protect the ‘mundane’ world from demons. After the sudden disappearance of her mother, Clary must join forces with a group of young Shadowhunters, who introduces her to a dangerous and alternative New York; called the Shadow world, filled with demons, werewolves, vampires and many other deadly creatures. From examining this dynamic text; Cassandra