Cinder-ella

Author’s Note: This piece was written for a cause and effect assignment on the novel Cinder.

In the novel Cinder I believe that the climax could be when Cinder finds out she is one of the moon people, or a Lunar. This event like most has both a cause and some, in this case major, effects.  

Since Cinder is a cyborg her stepmother can volunteer to be researched on to try and find a cure for the plague.  Cinder relationship with her stepmother is tenuous at best so when one of Cinder’s sisters contracts the plague the stepmother snaps and sends Cinder away.  And the tests performed at the research center lead Cinder to find out she is a Lunar.

Now being a Lunar might not have mattered, if the Lunar’s queen wasn’t visiting Earth.  Or if this visiting monarch had no problem with Lunars living in secret on Earth.  Unfortunately the queen was both visiting and intent on getting all Lunars to live on the moon.  So of course Cinder is found out.  This gives her two options, run or kill the queen. And in typical sci-fi fashion Cinder chooses the latter.

When she storms into the ball Cinder plans to tell the Emperor of  the Queen’s intentions but he when he doesn’t act she is forced to take matters into her own hands.  To make a long, gruesome story short she kills the queen, is imprisoned, escapes and leaves for Africa.

So Cinder’s stepmother always assumed that she’d be rid of Cinder forever by way of sending her to be a research subject.  But her choice was never meant to give her a reason to move to anywhere but a shallow hole in the ground.