The book starts off with the antagonist, Valentine, tricking a warlock into summoning a powerful demon named Agramon. Agramon kills the warlock but is told that he needs to follow Valentines orders because he poses the mortal cup. At the institute, which is where all the shadowhunters live, Alec and Isabelle’s mother returns, not believing Jace didn’t know Valentine was his father. This makes Jace upset so he leaves, going to a bar. In the bar Jace picks a fight with all the werewolves there. Luke Garroway, the leader of the pack and Clary’s step dad breaks up the fight and Clary has to go talk to Jace. The Inquisitor then comes and sends Jace to prison for one night in the Silent City and on the same night Valentine and Agramon kill all the Silent Brothers …show more content…
The demon attacks have been increasing and Clary discovers her power, which is to create runes, which are magic spells and are drawn on with a wand like stick). The rune she creates is a fearless rune which makes people fearless. The fight goes on and Valentine captures Simon and Maia, a werewolf, so he can complete his ritual. The Inquisitor then imprisons Jace and tries to trade Valentine for the Mortal Instruments. If he will not trade then she will kill him. Jace tries to say that is a bad idea but she won’t see reason, blinded by her believe that Valentine is responsible for her son’s death. Alec helps Jace break out and Jace jumps out of the cage, gets some weapons, then escapes the Institute getting a ride from Luke. Now everyone knows Valentine is the main enemy and stop fighting amongst themselves. Jace gets the fearless rune and then gets captured. The shadowhunters attack the boat that Valentine is on and they then learn Simon was killed. Jace kills the fear demon on the boat, using the fearless rune to beat the fear demon, and he finds simon’s body, letting simon suck his blood reviving
The Appomattox, Nine April Days 1865 by Burke Davis describes in vivid detail the last nine days of the Civil War. The book begins on April 1, 1865 and ends on April 9, 1865. It is made up of over 200 eyewitness accounts and over 20 main point of views. There are nine chapters because each chapter is a description of one of the nine days.
1. Chapter 1, is about introducing the Tres Camarones, the state of Sinaloa, Mexico. Also, since the people in that town didn’t like change much there are already danger roaming around like the bandidos who will be evading the town.
The story starts off with a six year old boy named Ender. He has a monitor which is a device in which authorities can see the world through Enders eyes. That day he gets his monitor removed then returns to class. In class Ender gets teased by a boy named Stilson. Ender is very smart he hardly pays attention in class because he knows all the answer to all the questions. Then after class the boy that teases him goes to him and corners him and begs them to let him go but they don 't so he kick him in the stomach and falls to the ground then even though he was on the ground he kicked him again Several times very brutally then goes away to the bus stop, thinking he was just like Peter.
11. The narrative abruptly changes to first point of view in the beginning of this chapter. The narrator seems to be a fellow soldier during the war in chapter one as he recalls many events and expresses relativity to many of the familiar names of those in combat in chapter one. It is later revealed to be Tim O’Brien, the author.
Summary - Exposition → Conflict → Climax → Resolution - The book starts out by telling you what happened between him and Isabel from the last the book and how they went their separate ways after they both got into a fight. That's when he stumbled upon a young army soldier, Eben, and rejoins the army.
The Servant by James C. Hunter lays a foundation of required strategies that are commonly learned throughout life. The concepts that are laid out in this book are quite interesting and similar to the laws of love. There is an unfortunate amount of successful and unsuccessful people who acquire the “I know best” leadership style that John portrays. Having the “I know it all” mentality can be a person’s biggest downfall. Within this story, you can see the consequences of that mentality as John is losing his grounds in all leadership roles within his life. These strategies are not difficult or new but understanding the foundation of these strategies may be quite challenging for some. When reading this book I recognized to become an efficient leader
The plot of Until We Meet Again, by Anne Schraff, is interesting because it gives the reader a realistic sense of what it is like to have to go through rough stages in life as a young teenager. Darcy is a teenager who attends Bluford High, she has a pretty normal life until things start to change right before her eyes. Hakeem is leaving her, her grandmother is sick, and her just upped and walked back in her and her sister's life. When Darcy and Jamie were younger there dad just upped and left them and their mother without even saying everything, he skipped town and left their mother to take care of her two children and grandmother by herself. Darcy's mother is a hard working woman. She works at a hospital and pays all the bills and takes care of the family by herself. Years later after Darcy's father walked on them he finally came back to the family to make everything right with the girls and their mother. He moved them
Before the eighteenth century it was very common for a guilty person to try to escape harsh punishment under the plea of impulsive insanity after committing a crime. However, by the early eighteenth century it was more difficult to prove that an individual was insane after committing a vicious crime. The case of Francis Valentine Shortis was one of such cases. His lawyers had a very difficult case on their hands and the only option they felt could help their client was to use the insanity defence. Their attempt was to persuade the twelve men jury that at the time of this dreadful crime, Shortis was in fact not mentally responsible and therefore suffering from a disease of the mind. There was an extensive amounts of evidence provided from
This shows how Clary knowing that Jace the boy she loves still has to have some control over what he does. Clary believes that he loves her more than the control. Clary wants to distract Jace so she can grab his knife out of his belt and cut the rune on his chest that is making him do what Lilith wants. Clary knows that the only way she can get herself, Simon, and Jace out of this alive is to cut the rune so Jace can be out from her control and then hopefully fight Lilith since Jace is one the best shadowhunters alive. In the book “City of Lost Souls” Jace was taken and the rune Lilith had made now makes Jace under Sebastian's control ever since Sebastian came back to life. Jace does and thinks what Sebastian wants him to think without knowing what is happening. Clary ends up going to live with Jace and Sebastian while knowing Jace isn't really Jace and trying to get Sebastian to trust her so she can stop him, and save Jace. Jace and Sebastian’s lives are tied to one another. If you cut one you cut the other if one dies the other dies. Clary knows that there has to be a way to save Jace and cut the tie that bounds Sebastian and Jace
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These questions are meant to serve as guide to help you pick out the most important information. Answer these questions to the best of your ability. Bulleted lists are acceptable as long as they consist of more than a few words. These concepts should be well thought out.
Alec: Alec is a shadow hunter and brother to Jace and his boyfriend is magnus bane.Isabel; Isabel is Alecs sister and Jace’s brother she carries a silver whip and is a shadow hunter.Jace: Jace thought he was Clary’s sister up until this book where he was was not the son of Valentine and not the sister of Clary.Simon: Simon is Clary's best friend and a vampire/angel also known as a daylighter.Luke: Luke is a werewolf and mary's Clary’s mom and is Clary’s uncle even though he is not related to Valentine( Clary’s father ). Magnus Bane: Magnus Bane is a warlock who is Alecs friend and helps the team out in difficult situations.Valentine: Valentine is Clarys dad and is also a psychopatho kills and injects himself with demon blood. Clarys mom: Clary’s mom is an advanced shadow hunter and was captured by Valentine.Maya: Maya is a werewolf and hangs out with Simon.Raphael: Raphael is the leader of the cities vampire’s. So far in this book Jace was keeping secrets from his friends.Simon is still protected by his invincibility mark.
They all ask Clary how she can see them but she doesn’t have an answer for that. Isabelle keeps calling Clary a Mundie. The group suggests taking her with them, but then disagree on it. All of a sudden Clary hears Simon by the door of the storage room. He’s standing there with a couple of bouncers. He asked what her what happened to the mysterious people. Clary looks behind her. She guessed that Simon and the bouncers couldn’t the people. Clary said she thought they were in the storage room, but they weren’t and leaves with Simon.