introduction and authors words

ok fist things first this is not my book I am copying every single word from the book the city of bones it is the first book in the shadow hunters series so please don't report well I wil start then . the foreword it will be the author Cassandra Clare'a POV and then when the real story begins it will be Clary the main character's POV

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...foreword...

All the stories are true .

That's what Jace Wayland tells Clary Fray at the end of the first book of the shadow hunters chronicles, city of bones.

Jace means ofcourse more than one thing by this . he means that every thing she'd been told didn't exist - vampire, werewolves , faeries , ghosts, and monster of all shapes and sizes and intention - did exist after all and that , in fact , the world is full of them . He means the stories we believe in our hearts are also true . Clary ends City of bones feeling a true sense of wonder as she flies over new york city seeing revealed below all the magic and enchantment that had been previously hidden from her .

all the stories are true .

When I set out to write city of bones , I was in love with stories about vampires, faeries and warlocks but I was also in love with the mythological tales of angels and demons . I was fascinated by Paradise lost and Dante's Inferno and Mike Carey's Lucifer. I was fascinated by the way that human beings had grappled with the ideas of absolute evil and absolute good tampered with love and free will . I wanted to create a world that was rich in folklore, the tales that people tell each other about things that go bump and bite in the night , but which also incorporated te existence of figures of myth - angels so powerful that one look at them would blind you. Demons so evil that their blood could change the nature of your soul from good to evil. I wanted to make real that which is so shrouded in myth and history that has become symbolic : when Valentine frees Jace from his prison in the silent city, he carries with him a sword and explains, " This is the blade with which the angel drove Adam and Eve out of the garden . And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way" . Later Simon comes into possession the sword of the Archangel Michael . The idea that these objects of immense power and history were real things that our heros could touch delighted me .

The existence of angels and demons in the world of Shadowhunters is the ur-myth from which every other aspect of story is derived . Shadowhunters were created from the blood of angels. Faeries are part angel , part demon. Warlocks are the offspring of humans and demons . Werewolves and Vampires are humans who bear demon diseases. I wanted to create a universe where myth and folktale dovetailed, where every story of magic would be explained .

All the stories are true

The idea of Shadowhunters came to me in part from the stories of Nephilim in the Bible. the offspring os humans and angels, they were enormous monsters who laid waste to earth . As writers often do , I adapted what seemed compelling to me from the myth- angels having children, when that is such a human thing to do! (Of course the Shadowhunters are only created from angel blood, but Raziel still seems to have a fatherly interest in them. ) The idea of being part angel, partly a symbol of goodness, and yet being beset by all the weaknesses inherent to humanity: frailty, cruelty, greed , selfishness and despair . It seemed a way to take an ancient story and ring a twist on it that would allow any reader to imagine what it might mean to be part divine, to have immense power- and as spider-man would like to remind us , the immense responsibility that goes with it .

All the stories are true.

Of course what Jace means ultimately is that stories is how we make sense of the world. The Mortal Instruments is the story of Clary above everything else: the story of a girl who starts out ordinary and becomes a hero . A girl who first is blind to the magic in the world all around her , but becomes not just to see it , but to be able to master and control it. Clary is an artist and a shaper of runes , the magical language of angels, and in using that language she shapes her own story and her own destiny. Clary and her friends are heroes who make their stories true—as, I the end, do we all.

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