Young love
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Young love
Jace saw the love between the two as a personal betrayal of him. I think he took his rage it too far. He knew the two were going out after all, and what they did was a natural development of their love. To look upon their act as a personal betrayal is a bit old fashioned and unreasonable. I understand he was protective of his sister, but I found his rage unjustified and unbelievable.
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Good points! I agree with the points you made.Rachel1019 wrote:I agree with you that it seemed very strange to me that their love was considered so inappropriate and was a betrayal of a pact that his father made with Piasa that he didn't even know about. I thought it was strange because the kids seemed to fall in love so immediately. I thought it was quite strange that Jace and Beth were even concerned with Conor to start with, since they didn't even know him. I thought that was somewhat unrealistic and the making love came on so suddenly, when there had been hardly any other physical contact between the two of them. I agree that I thought Jace blew the whole thing out of proportion when he found out. That is not a normal kind of rage that he was experiencing about his sister sleeping with someone she has been dating. Perhaps he was more angry because somewhere inside himself, he felt that something more was happening. But I found the whole situation sort of odd.
I also thought their love was too sudden, but it didn't bother me that much.
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I just want to ask, do you think that it was jealousy of the relationship that the too seemed to have? Or do you think the jealousy was from the fact that there is now another guy in Beth's life?ebeth wrote:Yes their love was too sudden I have to agree, however, it seems to work differently when being teenagers. As for Jace being protective of his sister I see it as just a big brother doing his job by being protective of his sister. However, I do agree he may have gone overboard. Love happens for a reason not because of betrayal. For him to say that makes me think it was out of jealousy.
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The more I'm reading (only 75% done) the more I'm wondering how much Conor is supposed to represent the idea of a Biblical savior and the concept of original sin. There are very clear similarities between Mary/Jesus and Conor/his actions with Beth.
It leaves open some interesting ideas for the sequel but I have to finish this book first to see if I'm even partially right.
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The more I'm reading (only 75% done) the more I'm wondering how much Conor is supposed to represent the idea of a Biblical savior and the concept of original sin. There are very clear similarities between Mary/Jesus and Conor/his actions with Beth. [/quote]
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I made a poor connection that it is possible Connor is not meant to actually be the savior but merely pave the way.
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