insults and jokes being hurled, and fires lit to cook food. Tóibín echoes Auden Mary says: "there were other things going on - horses being shoed and fed. The near-symbolism of this antique-style language is shockingly disrupted when the human body in agony bursts into the text. Modern terms such as "consciousness" or "hysterical" jar but do not break the trance. Nouns stay simple, acting less as signs of reality than as almost abstract markers: "fruit" "bread" "trees" "cloak" "shoes". The flow of the narrative is emphasised by the repeated use of "and". Mary's oral testimony becomes as grave and stately as a psalm, resonant with the familiar rhythms of the scriptures. Her admission that she cannot read or write reminded me of the 14th-century mystic Margery Kempe, forced to dictate her God-sent revelations to a priestly scribe. We realise that she is recounting her story of the death of Jesus to "guardians" who seem more like jailers. The novel opens with Mary apparently talking to herself. Heather Cherron makes a potent impact as Portia, the provocative prodigal participant, while Pria (Jasmine Sawant) gets to deliver many of the cleverest quips However, the entire cast which.
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With two of the Mortal Instruments at his command, Valentine is assembling an army of demons to wage war on the council of Shadowhunters and destroy them once and for all. Discovering the truth about her past was only the beginning, now Clary must save the world from her own father the rogue Shadowhunter Valentine. With her mother in a coma and her father hell-bent on destroying the world, Clary is dragged deeper into New Yorks terrifying underworld of werewolves, demons and the mysterious Shadowhunters. Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family – and the battle for the fate of the world. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension and back into their own. But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. 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