Blog Post #1

    Shadowhunters, demons, vampires and witches, there all found and fantasy, the supernatural, the things that people find impossible, the beings that are only found in books and movies. What happens when you see these things all around you and there not explainable. Your mother goes missing without a trace. If yes, then you can relate to Clarrisa Fray or otherwise known as Clary.It might not be direct, but it can be indirect. Teenagers can relate to her Clary because she goes through things that are very new to her because of her new experiences, whether it's a new school boyfriend friends etc. Clary goes through some new experiences and at first she doesn't believe what's going on right before her eyes. She was disillusioned at first but slowly began to understand. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare shows teenagers that they are not going to know everything and they are going to go through new things that don't make sense for now, but later they will.  
    Sometimes teenagers won't make sense what's going on around them and they won't make sense of it, teens tend to freak out when these things happen. When Clary sees shadow hunters for the first time she didn't know they were shadowhunters rather they were regular people, but when she saw Isabelle, Jace and Alec about to kill the person with the blue hair, she was shocked that nobody saw this and it didn't make sense. “‘Simon!’ Clary shouted and seized his arms. ‘What? I'm not really sleeping with your mom you know.’ ‘Do you see those guys?’ The girl shot her an evil look. ‘Sorry,sorry’. She turned her back at Simon. He squinted and said ‘don't see anything.’” Things that other people couldn't see was visible to Clary. Teenagers might see things differently than others. Again, this experience isn't something that can be directly relatable to because this has to do with the supernatural. Clary saw something that nobody could see, some teenagers might see something that they see but when they ask their friends they say they didn't see anything. This doesn't necessarily mean that what you saw wasn't there just because your friend didn't see what you saw.
       Teenagers tend to think they're right all the time. Clary started seeing the “supernatural” during the party she and Simon went to. This happened because Clary’s mother,Jocelyn had Magnus (a warlock) to erase her ability to see the “supernatural”, and he would do this every two years but he missed the last time he was suppose to  it again. Clary couldn't believe that her mother did this to her. “‘The way who wanted it?’... ‘your mother’ he said ‘My mother did this to me?’ Clary demanded, but her surprised outraged didn't sound convincing to her own ears. Looking around she saw the pity in Jace’s eyes… ‘Why?’ ‘I don't know’ Magnus spread his long white hands. ‘It's not my job to ask questions. I do what I get paid to do… ‘Was it only once’.... ‘I don't think you understand.’ Clary didn't think her mother would keep such a big thing from her. Her mother took the life she was suppose to live away from her, Her mom took away her birthright.  Magnus only did what he was suppose to do.
         Most teenagers have lots more questions when they become teens. Parents usually get to wing it when their teens were younger,but they are not as gullible as they were when they were younger. The truth eventually comes out during these years. Clary never knew who her father was. She thought it was Luke because he's been with her since she was a little girl, but Luke would constantly deny it. When she learned that she was a shadowhunter, she learned new things about herself including who her real father is. “‘My mother is alive?’ ‘she is’ said Valentine… ‘Yes’ he said cutting off Jace before he could speak. ‘Jocelyn is your mother Jonathan. (Jace’s real name is Jonathan and Valentine is his dad). Valentine loved Clary's mother and had a son and a daughter. The son, Jonathan or Jace  and the daughter Clarissa or Clary, so Clary and Jace are siblings. Valentine is Clary's father. Clarys question about who her father was was answered and in the process she learns she has a sibling. The questions teens have can be answered in weird ways maybe not a long lost sibling but the questions of who my real parents are are answered.
       Becoming a teenager  excited most pre-teens becoming teens. They get to go to the movies by themselves. Watch pg 13 movies. As well as more freedom. So teens start to think they are right, but life isn't fully complete when you become a teen it's when you die. Clary thinks she's normal but finds out she's the “fantasy” which includes vampire witches and demons ect. She is not someone who has magic but who kills the bad beings with magic. She finds out that her mom kept who she is from her and she finds out her father is Valintine. I hope many teens learn from this because they go through the same thing clary goes through. It's not direct rather more indirect. Learning new things that don't quite make sense in the beginning isn't a bad thing because we learn from these experiences and those “hallucinations” that we think we see because no one else saw it is fake but in reality what we saw was real.