Clockwork Princess questions and answers: SPOILERS ***Y SO LIL JEMS POV IN TID*** thehungergames451 said: I know everyone says this, but I absolutely love your books and they have really changed my life. Anyway, re-reading the Infernal Devices, I noticed that there were very little chapters in Jem’s PoV, and was just wondering why that was…? I thought I would reblog the below answer since it still stands, but also add that I really enjoyed getting to write Jem’s POV in After the Bridge. I had to avoid his POV again in City of Heavenly Fire because again, Jem KNOWS TOO MUCH, and it was fun to get a chance to tell things from his perspective again. ********* cassandraclare: The question’s not spoilery but the answer is … Hi Cassie! I wanted to thank you for writing a beautiful conclusion to The Infernal Devices. I was wondering, is there a special reason why Jem’s POV is so little throughout the books? Thank you for everything :) — offeringofmoonlight SPOILERS FOR CP2 Sure! I knew from early on I was going to have little or no Jem POV in the books, because the whole third book turns on not knowing several things about him. It’s not impossible to write the POV of a character with a secret. Will has a secret in Clockwork Angel and half of Clockwork Prince and yet we have his POV. But Will is very clear that he has a secret. We know he does. It is not such a good idea to write a character with a secret who we can’t even know has a secret. All of Clockwork Princess depends on us not knowing several significant things about Jem. First, for the beginning section of the book, we cannot know that he has been taking all his yin fen. We cannot even know he is hiding something. We need to think everything is fine until he collapses, or the whole first third of the book does not work. From there to the middle of the book we cannot know that Jem is reconsidering his decision not to try to become a Silent Brother. Far more importantly, for the entirely middle to end of the book we cannot know that he is not actually dead. It is really impossible to flash to the POV of a character who is supposed to be dead without rather giving it away that he is not. After that, Jem is a Silent Brother. Silent Brothers are not like the rest of humanity: their minds work differently. They think differently. I did not want to write from the point of view of any Silent Brother, ever, even Jem, as I think it destroys an aspect of their mystery that is essential to the story. Since I always knew that having Jem POV would not be possible in Princess, it is basically nonexistent in Clockwork Angel or Clockwork Prince. I did not want to get readers used to having his POV ever because then the lack of it would have seemed strange. And I did not think it was necessary to have his POV for people to come to love him. There are very many fictional characters I love whose POV I have never seen. (Calling Mr. Darcy.) I suppose I would just say: I feel no less close to Jem for not having written as much from his view as from, say, Will’s. And now that we have the end of Clockwork Princess, it’s clear that there might still be Jem’s POV in future books . ..which I think will be fun for us all.* Like TDA! ~Mrs Carstairs
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 19:18:26 +0000
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