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2012 young adult scientific discipline fiction novel by Marissa Meyer

Cinder

Book cover of Cinder
Writer	Marissa Meyer
Encompass artist	Rich Deas
Country	The states
Language	English language
Series	The Lunar Chronicles
Genre	Young adult, romance, science fiction, dystopian
Publisher	Feiwel & Friends
Publication date	January 3, 2012
Media blazon	Impress (hardcover and paperback), audiobook, e-book
Pages	390
ISBN	978-0-312-64189-4
OCLC	714726042
LC Class	PZ7.M571737 Cin 2012[1]
Followed by	Cherry

Cinder is the 2012 debut young adult scientific discipline fiction novel of American author Marissa Meyer, published by Macmillan Publishers through their subsidiary Feiwel & Friends. It is the first volume in The Lunar Chronicles and is followed by Scarlet. The story is loosely based on the archetype fairytale Cinderella.^[2] Cinder was selected as ane of IndieBound's Kids' Side by side List for winter 2012.^[3]

Plot [edit]

Set up in the futuristic metropolis of New Beijing, when the countries of the globe have re-organized to form diverse new empires and alliances and the Moon has been colonized, Asia is now an emperor-ruled country known as the Eastern Commonwealth. Letumosis, a fatal illness started by the Lunars and nicknamed the "Bluish Fever", or "The Plague", is raging throughout the world and a cure is unknown. Cinder is under the guardianship of her cruel adopted mother, Linh Adri, forth with her 2 stepsisters, Linh Pearl and Linh Peony, the latter of which treats her as a close friend. Equally a cyborg, Cinder is discriminated against and oftentimes looked down upon past others, despite building up a reputation as the best mechanic in New Beijing.

While working as a mechanic at the market, she meets the son of the Emperor, Prince Kai, who asks her to fix Nainsi, his personal android. Cyborgs are treated as 2nd class citizens, so Cinder hides her identity from Kai. Soon, Peony falls sick with letumosis later on accompanying Cinder to a junkyard to collect spare parts for a repair. In anger (Cinder's adopted father had died of letumosis as well), Linh Adri "volunteers" Cinder for plague enquiry, which no i survives from. When Cinder is injected with the strain of letumosis, information technology is discovered that she is immune to the disease. Dr. Erland, the head researcher, starts to do research on Cinder'due south immunity, which leads to research on Cinder's unique physiology, her cyborg implants, and eventually to Cinder'south life prior to becoming a cyborg at the age of eleven, which Cinder has no retentivity of.

At the aforementioned time, Prince Kai'due south father, Emperor Rikan, dies of the plague, resulting in the prince becoming Emperor of the Eastern Commonwealth at 17. There is pressure to create an alliance betwixt the Earth countries and the Moon state, Luna, led by the tyrannical and manipulative Queen Levana. The Lunars accept the power to manipulate the bioelectricity of people effectually them and make them see what they want them to meet and fifty-fifty command their thoughts and actions. The proposed alliance is through Emperor Kai marrying Queen Levana, yet, Emperor Kai wants to thwart this plan by finding someone else to ally first. He is likewise searching for data regarding the rightful Lunar heir Princess Selene, the girl of the late Lunar Queen Channary Blackburn and Levana's late sister, who was said to have died in a burn in her plant nursery when she was three but a body was never found; which was what his android was researching before it broke. Earthens believed that somehow Princess Selene survived the nursery fire. To bribe Kai into going through with the marriage, Levana brings one vial of the letumosis antitoxin, which Cinder attempts to relieve Peony with, but is too tardily subsequently giving it to a little boy named Chang Sunto who recovers from The Plague and would later brand headline news. After Peony'due south death, Cinder stores Peony's ID chip and takes it with her after discovering that the victims' chips are harvested after their deaths for an unknown reason. Because of this (and thinking that Cinder taunted Peony with the antidote instead of trying to save her), Linh Adri punishes Cinder by groovy Iko, Cinder'southward companion android and friend, to pieces and selling the valuable pieces, leaving only Iko's personality chip, and banning Cinder from going to the annual peace ball.

Dr. Erland reveals to Cinder that she is Lunar, resulting in her immunity to letumosis. However, Cinder displays no Lunar abilities, making her a "crush", or a Lunar without whatsoever bioelectricity manipulation abilities. Dr. Erland too reveals that he is a Lunar avoiding who has been living on Earth. He had turned against Luna after his own newborn shell daughter had been taken away per the Lunar shell infanticide laws, as shells cannot control or be controlled by the Lunar abilities and are thus supposedly a threat to Lunars. Cinder fixes Nainsi and discovers that he and Nainsi have been researching Princess Selene, who is believed to have been killed by her aunt, Levana, when she was a kid in club to eliminate her simply threat to the throne. Cinder too discovers a Lunar direct communication flake embedded in Nainsi, which was the reason for the android'due south initial breakdown. Through the Lunar chip, which is revealed to exist used for straight communication exterior the network, Cinder is contacted by a Lunar daughter - revealed in the third novel to be Cress - who warns that Levana intends to marry Kai and kill him afterwards she becomes empress.

The story culminates with an annual ball, which Cinder crashes but is so revealed and appear to be Kai'due south special guest. Cinder warns Kai about Levana's ulterior motives and tells him to call off any wedding ceremony plans, just Levana intervenes and points out that Cinder is a Lunar crush fugitive, and should be taken into custody for trial. Levana attempts to educate Cinder into shooting herself merely Cinder resists the attempt and fires a pistol at Levana. After a standoff where she ends upwardly trying to escape, runs off, and trips on stairs causing her to lose her foot, Kai has no choice just to arrest Cinder in the New Beijing Prison house and agree to hand Cinder over to Levana to save the World from war. Subsequently, in Cinder's jail cell, Dr. Erland visits and reveals that Cinder is really the lost Princess Selene. Erland gives Cinder a new hand with objects hidden in the fingers and a foot made of titanium, and convinces her to escape on her own in lodge to join him in Africa so that she began her preparation to overthrow Levana and take back her throne.

Characters [edit]

• Linh Cinder, a 16-year-old cyborg mechanic. She is based on Cinderella.
• Iko, Cinder'south android assistant. Iko sometimes forgets that she's not human due to her "malfunctioning" personality bit.
• Kaito, known usually as Kai, the Crown Prince of Eastern Democracy. He is based on Prince Charming of Cinderella'due south history.
• Nainsi, Kai's android that was brought to Cinder at the first of the story.
• Rikan, Kai'southward begetter and emperor of New Beijing, who is dying of letumosis at the beginning of the novel.
• Linh Peony, Cinder's stepsister and friend; daughter of Linh Garan and Linh Adri. Early in the book, she contracts and dies of letumosis.
• Linh Pearl, daughter of Adri and Garan and the older sister of Peony. She regularly degrades and picks on Cinder, her stepsister.
• Linh Adri, Cinder's roughshod stepmother and guardian who believes that cyborgs are inhuman and mutants incapable of emotions. She regularly mistreats Cinder and blames her for all the hardships in her and her family unit'southward life.
• Chang Sacha, a bakery in the market place who contracted letumosis at the first of the story and consequently had her booth burned down. She disliked Cinder intensely due to her being a cyborg.
• Chang Sunto, the son of Sacha
• Dr. Erland, the head of the letumosis enquiry division at the palace. He discovers Cinder is a Lunar, and later reveals to her that he is secretly a Lunar fugitive. His given proper name is Dimitri.
• Levana, the queen of Luna. She has a powerful mannerly ability called glamour used to strength people to practise her behest and to also give the impression that she looks beautiful.
• Sybil Mira, Levana'south head thaumaturge, loyal to Levana and willing to do her bidding. Sybil was originally stationed in New Beijing Palace before Emperor Rikan died of letumosis.
• Konn Torin, Royal advisor and friend of Prince Kai

Reception [edit]

Critical reception to Cinder has been mostly positive,^[4] with the Los Angeles Times calling the book "refreshing" and praising the character of Cinder.^[v] Publishers Weekly also positively reviewed the volume, saying that the characters are "piece of cake to become invested in".^[6] Booklist called Cinder a "fresh spin on Cinderella".^[vii] The Wall Street Journal wrote that the book was an "undemanding and surprisingly good-natured read".^[8] Kidz World stated that Cinder was "an astonishing story nearly love that comes in mysterious packages".^[9]

Kirkus Reviews wrote that the telepathic-enslaver theme was "simplistic and incongruous-feeling" merely said that Cinder "offers a loftier coolness factor".^[10] The Horn Volume Magazine wrote that Cinder's reveal was predictable merely that the volume'southward "twists and turns, complex characters, and detailed world-edifice to redeem itself".^[11] Tor.com wrote that "while Cinder does have its flaws, it's a solidly entertaining story, and one of the all-time re-imaginings of Cinderella I've seen in ages."^[12] Reflecting on the novel'due south blend of fairy tale and steampunk motifs, literary scholar Terri Doughty concludes that Meyer "rewrites the meme of female person passivity every bit Cinder works through a process of identity formation. Compared to the novel's female characters that employ traditional markers of femininity to disguise their manipulations and cruelties, the cyborg mechanic Cinder emerges as a positive role model for girls."^[xiii]

Interviewed at the Bologna Children'due south Book Fair (Bologna, Italy) in 2012, the author revealed the origin of her novel. She is a "fairy tale geek", she has spent considerable time tracing the origins of the most common Western children's stories. According to Meyer, "some scholars believe that a story called "Ye Xian", which was beginning recorded in 9th-century China is the original Cinderella tale and the straight antecedent to the stories we know from Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm. Additionally, some believe that the iconic lost slipper used to find the delinquent girl came to us from China'southward tradition of foot-binding and a culture in which women were praised for tiny anxiety."^[14] For this reason, Marissa Meyer decided to set up her futuristic version in New Beijing, in order to "close the circumvolve" and re-take the story to its original identify. In addition to that, the decision to make Cinder a cyborg started from a hilarious idea: the thought came to her mind that, instead of losing a shoe, Cinderella might lose a whole human foot on the stairs.

Sequels and adaptations [edit]

There are iv books, a prequel novel, and a collection of novellas in The Lunar Chronicles. The second book in the series, Scarlet, is based on Little Red Riding Hood.^[15] The 3rd book, Cress, is based on Rapunzel.^[16] Volume iii.5, which was released in Jan 2015, is chosen Fairest, which acts as the quaternary volume and is a prequel focusing on the main antagonist, Queen Levana.^[17] The 5th ane (officially volume iv) is chosen Winter and was released in November 2015.^[xviii] Both Winter and Fairest are loosely based on the story of Snow White. Meyer has likewise released three free short stories via the website Wattpad. These are entitled Glitches - set prior to Cinder, The Queen's Army - set merely before Scarlet, and The Picayune Android which is based on Hans Christian Andersen'southward The Picayune Mermaid.^[19] Stars To a higher place, a Lunar Chronicles collection was released in February 2016.^[20] This drove included nine stories, five of which accept never been published and an excerpt of Marissa Meyer's stand alone novel, Heartless, which was released on Nov viii, 2016.^[21]

Meyer has confirmed at that place has been interest in a moving picture adaptation of Cinder, and has signed a deal for the film, although the studio is existence kept cloak-and-dagger. The author states the studio is currently searching for a manager.^[22]

References [edit]

1. ^ "Cinder." (first edition). LC Online Catalog. Library of Congress (lccn.loc.gov). Retrieved 2016-10-30.
2. ^ Lodge, Emerge (15 December 2011). "Feiwel and Friends Rolls Out 'Cinder' in High Way". Publishers Weekly.
3. ^ "Cinder Book One in the Lunar Chronicles". IndieBound. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22.
4. ^ Schlichenmeyer, Terri (17 January 2012). "Marissa Meyer's futuristic fairy tale features the about incredible cliff-hanger always". Las Vegas Review-Periodical.
5. ^ Susan, Carpenter (1 January 2012). "Not Just for Kids: 'Cinder'". Los Angeles Times.
6. ^ "Children'southward Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer". Publishers Weekly.
7. ^ "Booklist Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer". Booklist.
8. ^ Gurdon, Meghan Cox (31 December 2011). "Prince Mannerly Among the Cyborgs". The Wall Street Journal.
9. ^ "Book Review: Cinder by Marissa Meyer". Kidz World.
10. ^ "CINDER By Marissa Meyer". Kirkus Reviews. fifteen Nov 2011.
11. ^ "Horn Book Magazine: Cinder". Horn Volume Magazine. January 2012. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
12. ^ Jones, Michael M. (iii January 2012). "The Cyborg Cinderella: Cinder past Marissa Meyer". Tor.com.
13. ^ Doughty, Terri (2015). "Putting the punk in a steampunk Cinderella: Marissa Meyer's "Lunar Chronicles"" (PDF). Filoteknos. 5: 46–58. hdl:10613/3210 – via VIUSpace.
14. ^ "Prc, France, Northern Africa: Choosing the Lunar Chronicles Settings | Marissa Meyer". www.marissameyer.com . Retrieved 2019-03-11 .
15. ^ Meyer, Marissa. "Crimson". MarissaMeyer.com. Archived from the original on 2018-02-01. Retrieved 2015-01-28 .
16. ^ Meyer, Marissa. "Cress". MarissaMeyer.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2015-01-28 .
17. ^ Meyer, Marissa. "Fairest: Levana's Story". MarissaMeyer.com. Archived from the original on 2017-11-17. Retrieved 2015-01-28 .
18. ^ Meyer, Marissa. "Winter". MarissaMeyer.com. Archived from the original on 2012-05-16.
19. ^ Meyer, Marissa. "Curt Stories". MarissaMeyer.com. Archived from the original on 2012-07-01.
20. ^ "Books". The Lunar Chronicles. MacMillan. Archived from the original on 2017-05-10. Retrieved 2015-eleven-21 .
21. ^ "Heartless". Heartless. MacMillan. Archived from the original on 2017-05-08. Retrieved 2015-11-21 .
22. ^ Truitt, Brian (31 July 2013). "Cover reveal, excerpt and Q&A: Marissa Meyer'southward 'Cress'". United states Today.

External links [edit]

• The Lunar Chronicles Website

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinder_(novel)

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