Have you ever seen a demon? Do you even know what a demon is? Clary Fray and the Shadow Hunters do. Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is partying hard at the Pandemonium Club with her best friend, Simon. There, she sees a crowd of strangely behaving, but incredibly attractive teens sneak into a storeroom. She follows them, and discovers that they're demon hunters when they kill a demon in front of her, which dissolves into the floor. Yuck! Clary, determined not to think about any demons or demon hunters, gets a cryptic phone call from her mother, and Clary's life spirals out of control and becomes even more involved with people she shouldn't be able to see. In the City of Bones Clary's interactions with other characters changes the way she acts.
Clary's interactions with other characters changes the way she acts. For example, When Clary's 'uncle' Luke and her mother, Jocelyn, finished bringing up boxes, Clary asks what they're for. On page 26, when Clary receives an answer she gets annoyed and a little bit angry at her mother and says, "Tell her! Tell her it isn't fair!" to Luke and when her mother says an excuse, "So sell some more of Dad's stocks," Clary said angrily. "That's what you usually do, isn't it?" Usually Clary is a calm, collected person, but when faced with the news from her mother she is confused which cases her to put up defenses to hide her confusion and to try and find out why Jocelyn wants to leave. Although, when Clary's defenses are up she comes off as annoyed and snarky. Clary's interaction with Jocelyn and Luke causes her to become the snarky Clary that she is on page 26 instead of the laidback Clary on page 1. Another example is, on page 298, after rescuing Simon, Clary's best friend, from the clutches of the night children, Vampires, Alec Lightwood, Jace's best friend, pulls her aside. When out of view, Alec tells Clary that she needs to leave because she's endangering Jace's life with her 'selfishness.' Enraged, Clary lashes out at Alec saying, "News flash," Clary snapped. "I don't make Jace do anything. He does what he wants. You ought to know that." ...Clary recoiled. Rage rose up in her like a black wave —rage against Alec, because he was partly right, and rage against
everything and everyone else: against the icy road that had taken her father away from her before she was born, against Simon for nearly getting himself killed, against Jace for being a martyr and for not caring whether he lived or died. Against Luke for pretending he cared about her when it was all a lie. And against her mother for not being the boring, normal, haphazard mother she'd always pretended to be, but someone else entirely: someone heroic and spectacular and brave whom Clary didn't know at all. Someone who wasn't there now, when Clary needed her desperately. "You should talk about selfish," she hissed, so viciously that he took a step back. "You couldn't care less about anyone in
this world except yourself, Alec Lightwood. No wonder you've never killed a single demon, because you're too afraid."...She could see how she was hurting him, and it made her glad. Someone else ought to be in pain for a change." Clary's emotions are usually held together in a small space at the back of Clary's mind, the result of that is her emotions getting mixed together, burning underneath her skin. Because Alec said something that got her angry, all of her other emotions towards different people fuel the fire behind her rage keeping it going until Alec gets angry enough to snuff it out and replace it with fear. This shows how Clary's interactions with other characters changes the way she acts.
In conclusion, Clary's interactions with different characters affect the way she acts towards them and others. I hope that people can relate to Clary because I fell that Clary represents the teenage spirit with different emotions changing how she acts constantly. Clary uses these emotions to her advantage, but sometimes it may get out of control. Clary along with other characters in City of Bones represent different emotions and different traits, good or bad.
