The Shadow Fold is a dark area filled with monsters that is destroying Ravka. Alina, an orphan, discovers she has unique powers and is brought to the magical elite Grisha. As Alina learns to use her abilities, she must face the Darkling, the powerful and seductive leader of the Grisha. Alina also struggles with her feelings for her childhood friend Mal as she is thrust into the world of the Ravkan royalty and magic.

1. Delainey Jorgensen
Shadow and Bone
Leigh Bardugo

2. Background:
The Shadow Fold, is an impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters that feast on
human flesh,this is slowly destroying the once-great nation of Ravka. Alina, a pale, lonely
orphan, discovers a unique power that thrusts her into the lavish world of the kingdom’s
magical elite—the Grisha. Could she be the key to unravelling the dark fabric of the
Shadow Fold and setting Ravka free?
The Darkling, a creature of seductive charm and terrifying power, is the leader of
the Grisha. If Alina is to fulfill her destiny, she must discover how to unlock her gift
and face up to her danger.
But what of Mal, Alina’s childhood best friend? As Alina contemplates her
dazzling new future, why can't she ever quite forget him?
I didn’t write this but thought it would add more content for people who have
never read

3. “This was his soul made flesh, the truth of him laid bare in the blazing
sun, shorn of mystery and shadow. This was the truth behind the
handsome face and the miraculous powers, the truth that was the dead
and empty space between the stars, a wasteland peopled by frightened
monsters.” (238)

4. When painting, a dark color has much more effect than a light color. Just
as the Darklings power rules by fear and swallows everything, alinas’
power envelopes and lifts. (parallelism)

5. “The problem with wanting, is that it makes us weak.” (220)

6. According to the Roman Catholic beliefs, the seven deadly sins are the
seven behaviours/feelings that inspire further sin. They are as follows,
pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. Due to these
blasphemous impulsisses their faith weakens

7. “Just admit it,” he sneered. “He owns you.” “he owns you, too, mal,” I
lashed back. “He owns us all” (231)

8. Alina, the main character, is being controlled and “owned” like a slave.
Using fear to rule and keep in power, the darkling follows the
ideologies of capturing enemies in war and keeping them as slaves.

9. “We all serve someone. The king is a child. You and I are going to
change the world.” (239)
Darkling
and Alina
Grisha/royals
commoners/peasants

10. With the power of being able to change the world comes the power to
end it. “Hope is an embrace of the unknown.” (Rebecca Solnit)

11. kaden
“Why can a Grisha possess but one amplifier? I will answer this
question instead: What is infinite? The universe and the greed of
men.”
Kaden ho
as model
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12. Just as toxic water will kill a plant, toxic emotions will kill a person.
(parallelism)

13. Is the villain truly the evil one? (ethos)

14. Is there reward to being special, or does that just make you more of a
target? (logos)

15. Thesis:
In Shadow and Bone, Leigh Bardugo conveys the theme of the immense struggles caused
by a toxic hierarchy with a thirst for power as its main foundation, and how such greed
reflects the fold by utilizing light versus dark motifs.

16. Bibliography:
Images - Creative Commons, Unsplash, Pexels
Background - https://thegrishaverse.fandom.com/wiki/Alina_Starkovhttps://thegrishaverse.fandom.com/wiki/Alina_Starkov
Quote - “Hope is an embrace of the unknown.” (Rebecca Solnit)
My own first photograph - Kaden ho
Second - luke england as photographer, photo design per. 4 students