Why does Jocelyn Fray keep her life a big secret?
1.
A Better life
Without being in the other world,
she thought it would be safer to be in the human world where she thinks she
belongs. Taking Clary to get her mind erased and not remember at all of what
she is drawing and what’s happening wasn’t a smart idea. She knew either way
that she would find out. Instead of keeping this “better life” a secret she
should have told Clary. Clary thinks this all her imagination when in reality its
really happening. “Jocelyn grew up in Idris with Luke, Valentine, and the other
Circle members. She was married to Valentine at the age of 19, though she says
she married him because she loved him, she later realized that he was torturing
innocent people. She fled Idris when she found out she was pregnant with Clary,
so he could not do harm to her daughter like he did on Jonathan (Sebastian),
her first-born son.”
2.
Valentine
Even though Jocelyn was afraid of
Valentine, it didn’t and still doesn’t help running away from your problems. Protecting
Clary, yes a good idea. Instead of just running away from him she could have
done something by doing it herself. Nobody had to help her if they didn’t want
to but it would have been better if she tried stopping him alone or with
someone. “Years later, when City of Bones begins, Valentine finds Jocelyn and
wants her to reveal where the Mortal Cup is located. He kidnaps her, but is
unable to extract information from her due to her self-induced comatose state.
He eventually secures the Mortal Cup, and the Mortal Sword and goes to the
Mortal Mirror to summon the Angel Raziel. His arrogance, however, as well as
his torturing of the angel Ithuriel, Raziel's brother, causes the angel to slay
him.”
3.
Family
Even family or not it would be
better to tell things instead of secrets. Because Clary has no idea on what she
is doing until she finds out what has been happening. Not knowing where her
mother was really from and why Luke isn’t helping her. Joceyln risking her life
for her daughter is good but it shows that she needs to care more about others
than just herself. She may have gotten kidnapped and almost die she could have
still gotten some help. “Valentine is the former husband of Jocelyn Fairchild,
with whom he had two children (Clarissa "Clary" Adele Morgenstern and
Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern). Clarissa realizes that she is Valentine's
daughter in the first book, City of Bones, but being raised by Jocelyn her
whole life is void of Valentine's influence. His son however, was tutored by
him to be a very talented Shadowhunter and ruthless killer. He later becomes
Valentine's spy, taking the name Sebastian Verlac. Valentine also adopts Jace
Herondale as his son, training him as well as Jonathan, making him as skilled a
Shadowhunter as Jonathan.”
4.
Secrets
Although keeping secrets in a
family matter will be good to protect someone from getting hurt. For Jocelyn needed
to stop thinking about herself for once. She would have been less selfish and
more dependent on than just doing what she can. Like I know she can but she
should have fixed the problem at hand at first then run away.
5.
Fear
Being in fear isn’t as good as a shadow hunter. Jocelyn needed
to be more empathetic for what she was doing. Yeah she was trying to keep Clary
safe but hiding in fear isn’t always an option. Look where she ends up now. Almost
dead but still ends up alive.
