Cassandra Clare’s “The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones” explores a young, teenage girl, Clary Fray. Clay is faced with new challenges and is now leading a completely different life then what she was used to. In a world full of Demons, Vampires, Warlocks and Shadow Hunters, Clary experiences events that will change her life forever, including forbidden love. The film adaptation of the novel is an excellent example of the text. The film applies almost exactly the same script that was outlined in the novel. In addition, the final event in the film was very different to the final event in the novel, when Valentine retrieves The Mortal Cup. The novel also provides a great deal of detail and description about the events and characters whereas the film was lacking important information. Despite these key differences, the film does stay true to the original text.

The depiction of the characters script in the film adaptation …show more content…
The novel was extremely vivid in how it made the audience perceive characters and events which the film fell short of. “Jocelyn even had a graceful way of walking that made people turn their heads to watch her go by. Clary, by contrast, was always tripping over her feet. The only time people turned to watch her go by was when she hurtled past them as she fell downstairs” (pg 30). These characteristics were completely missed and ignored in the film which made the film seem like it was missing key characteristics about certain characters. The film however, is able to portray certain features about characters appearances in a different class to the novel. Using different camera angles and different lighting, the film is able to bring certain characters to life. Including the supernatural beings. Despite the fact that the film adaptation lacked descriptiveness, the end result of the narrative remained the