Cassandra Clare

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Details; they are what make images pop into one’s mind when reading any type of literature. Details are also what make some stories more memorable than others. The authors J.D. Salinger and Cassandra Clare are excellent at being descriptive in their works; making them unforgettable. For example, in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, readers are able to imagine all the characters. The characters play a vast role in the story. One of the characters “... was one of [those] very, very tall, round-shoulder guys – he was about six four – with lousy teeth … had a lot of pimples … [and] had a terrible personality”; immediately the reader imagines Robert Ackley, a friend of the protagonist (Salinger 19). Ackley in one way is like Holden, the …show more content…
The adventure can only be acquired by the narration of Cassandra Clare. Just by the first couple of pages into the book, the reader can tell how detailed the book will be. On page two, Clare is already describing a boy that Clary notices while waiting in line to enter a club in detail: “He had electric blue dyed hair that stuck out around his head like the tendrils of a startled octopus but no elaborate facial tattoos or big metal bars through his ears or lips” (Clare 2). Because of the portrayal of the boy, the reader can create a character in their head. The reader can also imagine himself in line seeing the boy. Later on, Clare depicts the club inside as “…a multicolored fairyland of blues and acid greens, hot pinks and golds” with smoke covering the floor (Clare 2). Then in the club Clary sees a girl and Cassandra Clare states that “The girl was gorgeous … tall and ribbon-slim, with a long spill of black hair. Even at this distance Clary could see the red pendant around her throat. It pulsed under the lights of the dance floor like a separate, disembodied heart” (Clare 6). The vocabulary that Cassandra Clare uses gives the pictures in one’s mind of the character and surrounding an image that is unordinary. For example, when she had explained that the club was “…a multicolored fairyland…” (Clare 2) and “… the red pendant … [was] like a separate, disembodied
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