City Of Fallen Angels Themes

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“Or maybe it’s just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world,” (Clare 289). This quote is from the novel City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare which is the fourth book of the Mortal Instruments series. After being brought back to life Jace Herondale, a shadowhunter, has been possessed. An ancient demon Lilith is tampering with his mind and giving him nightmares of wanting to kill his girlfriend Clary Fray. In the end Clary and the other shadowhunters help save Jace from his mind and he rejoins his family and friends happy again. One of the main characters is Jace Herondale and the story takes place in modern day New York City. The characters struggle with love, trying to figure out who they are, and trying to distinguish…show more content…
After being possessed and almost losing everyone he loves, Jace struggles with feeling worthy of Clary’s love until Lilith threatens to kill Clary. Jace realizes he needs to not push his loved ones away and to tell them he loves them. After almost dying a second time Jace said to Clary, “It’s a bit of the very last verse from Paradiso – Dante’s Paradise. ‘My will and my desire were turned by love, the love that moves the sun and the other stars.’ Dante was trying to explain faith, I think, as an overpowering love, and maybe it’s blasphemous, but that’s how I think of the way that I love you. You came into my life and suddenly I had one truth to hold on to- that I loved you, and you loved me,” (Clare 407-408). After almost losing everything Jace learned the values of commitment to his family and girlfriend and to live in the moment and stop dwelling in the past. To Clary he said, “Theoretically the planet could suddenly crack in half, leaving me on one side and you on the other, forever and tragically parted, but I’m not worried about that either. Some things are just too unlikely to dwell upon,” (Clare 77). Overall Jace Herondale grew in many ways throughout City of Fallen

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