The poetic device used in my book was pathos. Many parts of this book make you feel sorry for people, make you feel happy, scared, or make you anxious. During this book there were certain parts of the book were I felt sympathy for a character, Alec. ""I live forever," Magnus said quietly. "But not everyone does." Alec looked as if someone had hit him. "So you just stay with them as long as they, and then you find someone else?" Magnus didn't say anything. he looked at Alec, his eyes shining like a cat's." (Clare City of Fallen Angels 252), "" But what can some mortal child give you? Ten years, twenty, before dissolution begins to claim him. Forty years, fifty, before death claims him. I can give you all eternity."" (262), "... "is especially unfair, because you are anything but trivial for me. I changed my whole life for you. But nothing ever changes for you, does it? I guess that's what it means to live forever. Nothing ever really has to matter all that much" "I'm telling you that you do matter-"... "You don't have to tell answer; I can tell by your face that you did. Was it- was it a spell for making me immortal?" Magnus felt shaken to his core. "Alec," he whispered. "No. No, I-I wouldn't do that." Alec fixed him with his piercing blue gaze. "Why not? Why through all the years of all the relationships you've ever had have you never tried to make any of them immortal like you? If you could have me with you forever, wouldn't you want to?" "Of course I would!" Magnus, realizing he was almost shouting, lowered his voice with an effort. "But you don't understand. You don't get something for nothing. The price for living forever-"" (309), and " She smiled pityingly. "You're beautiful now," she said. "But will you be in twenty years? In forty? Fifty? Will he love your blue eyes when they fade, our soft skin when age cuts deep furrows in it? Your hands when they wrinkle and grow weak, your hair when it grows white-"... "... What if I told you there was a another way? Another way for the two of you to be together forever?" (376-377) The way I fell sympathy with Alec, because he doesn't know if he and Magnus will be able to stay together.
