Assignment: Popular Fiction

Submitted To:
Sir Khuram Sb
Group No:
7
Group Members:
Hamna Shaheen Ayesha Shafiq
M Usama Javaid Ali Hasnain
Arooj Ahmad Khadija Gulsher
Ayesha Javed Laraib Shahid
Syed Fasial shah Muqdas shafat

Department of English
 Cinder Novel

About Title

The story revolves around a character named cinder thus by this we can
say that this title is appropriate for novel.

Biography of Author

Marissa Meyer

o She was an American novelist

o She was born in Tacoma, Washington
o She attended pacific Lutheran university where she received a degree in
creative writing
o Cinder was her first novel
o Before writing cinder meyer worked as a book editor for 5 years
o Her debut novel cinder was released on 3 january 2012 and it was the first
in her series ‘’the lunar chronicles’’
o Meyer is married to jesse taylor in 2015 she and her husband adopted
twins sisters.

Setting

Cinder was set in the chaotic city of new Beijing which was made in after
myth of world war 4.
Novel Introduction

General Information;

 Author Marissa Meyer

 Country United States

Publications;

 Published by Feiwel & Friends

 Date of publication 3 January 2012

Introduction;

Linh Cinder is a cyborg living in New Beijing, 126 years after World War
IV, with Her stepmother, Linh Adri, and her two stepsisters, Pearl & Peony.
Cinder owns a Booth in the market place where she works as a mechanic with
the family’s Android, Iko. Cinder is the first volume of The Lunar Chronicles
series by Marissa Meyer. Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of
new beijing. A deadly Plague ravages the population. Cinder a gifted mechanic
is a cyborg. She’s a Second class citizen with a mysterious past reviled by her
stepmother and blamed For her stepsister letumosis. But when her life becomes
intertwined with the Handsome prince Kai’s. She suddenly finds herself at the
center of an intergalactic Struggle, developing a forbidden attraction. Caught
between duty and freedom, Loyalty and betrayal. She must uncover secrets
about her past in order to protect Her world’s future. With high-stakes action
and a smart, resourceful heroine, Cinder is a Cinderella retelling that is at once
classic and strikingly original.

Summary
 As a cyborg, Cinder is discriminated against and often looked down
upon by others, despite building up a reputation as the best mechanic in New
Beijing. While working as a mechanic at the marketplace, she meets the son of
the Emperor, Prince Kai, who asks her to fix Nainsi, his personal android.
Cinder, a cyborg girl living in New Beijing with her cruel stepmother,
meets the famous Prince Kai when she is asked by him to fix his broken
android. She is able to hide the fact that she is cyborg from him.Cinder
Cinder, loosely inspired by the story of Cinderella, is a futuristic novel
about a sixteen-year-old cyborg named Cinder.After a mysterious childhood
accident orphans Cinder and leaves her a cyborg, she is ostracized by society
and her adoptive family.New Beijing, Cinder’s home, faces twin threats: a
deadly plague called letumosis and the Lunars, a race of highly-evolved humans
who have colonized the moon.When the emperor’s son seeks Cinder out for her
skill as a mechanic, she is swept up in the growing conflict between the people
of Earth and the people of the moon.

Lesson of cinder;

This story is that people that don’t look like you can be very powerful in
life . This is the moral of “Cinder” because everyone was mean to Cinder
because she was a cyborg. But when Dr. Erland found out what and who she is,
he realized how powerful she can be.

Characters

o Cinder:
Cinder is the protagonist of the novel. She is a 16-year-old cyborg
(human/robot hybrid) mechanic who lives in the futuristic city of New Beijing,
in the Eastern Commonwealth.
 o Prince kai:
Eighteen-year-old Prince Kai is the prince of the Eastern Commonwealth,
where Cinder lives. Prince Kai is handsome and charming, so most of the girls
in the Eastern Commonwealth fawn over him—including Cinder’s stepsister
Peony.

o Kon torrin:
Torin is Emperor Rikan’s advisor. After Rikan’s death, he advises Kai on
his negotiations with Queen Levana as well.

o Nainsi:
Nainsi is Prince Kai’s android. Cinder fixes Nainsi and discovers that
Prince Kai has been using the android to search for Princess Selene.

o Fateen:
Fateen is one of Dr. Erland’s assistants at the letumosis research lab,
along with Li.

o Li:
Li is one of Dr. Erland’s assistants at the letumosis research lab, along with
Fateen.

o Queen levana:
 Queen Levana is the novel’s antagonist and the queen of Luna, the society
on the moon. She uses her glamour (the power to telepathically manipulate
other people’s thoughts and actions) to appear beautiful all.

o Dr.Erland:
Dr. Erland is the head of New Beijing’s letumosis research team. Dr.
Erland reveals much of his backstory to Cinder as the novel goes on: he is
actually a Lunar fugitive.

o Adri:
Adri is Cinder’s stepmother, Garan’s widow, and Pearl and Peony’s
mother. Adri is exceptionally cruel and abusive toward Cinder, particularly
because Cinder is a cyborg (human/robot hybrid) and Adri therefore views.

o Sybil mira:
Sybil Mira is Queen Levana’s head thaumaturge (advisor). Like Queen
Levana, Sybil is Lunar and keeps up her glamour all the time to make it seem as
though she is beautiful.

o Peony:
Peony is Cinder’s 14-year-old stepsister, Pearl’s younger sister, and Adri’s
daughter. Unlike Pearl, Peony is kind to Cinder, but she is powerless to stop her
mother and sister from abusing Cinder.
 o Iko:
Iko is Cinder’s android and her best friend. Iko has a faulty personality
chip, which makes her seem much more human than most androids. She assists
Cinder in her mechanic booth and helps Cinder.

o Garan:
Garan was Cinder’s stepfather, Adri’s husband, and Pearl and Peony’s
father. He adopted Cinder when she was 11 years old in Europe, and shortly
after returning to the Eastern Commonwealth.

o Chang sacha:
Changa Sacha is the baker in the market where Cinder works. She
discriminates against Cinder, telling her son Sunto not to play near Cinder’s
booth because she is a cyborg.

o Queen channary:
Queen Channary is Queen Levana’s older sister and Princess Selene’s
mother. Like Levana, Channary was power-hungry and cruel: she instituted a
policy to kill shells on Luna, believing that they were dangerous.