new beijing was the setting of the book cinder.
new beijing was the setting of the book cinder.
what is the setting of the book cinder?
new beijing
the story is set in a futuristic city, new beijing, when the countries of the world have re-organized to form various new empires and alliances and the moon has been colonized. asia is now an emperor-ruled country known as the eastern commonwealth. letumosis, a fatal disease started by the lunars and nicknamed the "blue fever," is raging throughout the world and the cure is unknown. the protagonist, linh cinder, is a cyborg who operates a mechanic stall at a local street market in new beijing and lives under the guardianship of her cruel stepmother, linh adri along with her two stepsisters, linh pearl and linh peony. early in the story, she meets prince kai, who asks her to fix a personal android. cyborgs are treated as second class citizens, so cinder hides her identity from kai. soon, peony falls sick with letumosis after accompanying cinder to a junkyard to collect spare parts for a repair. in anger, cinder’s stepmother "volunteers" cinder for plague research. when cinder is injected with the strain of letumosis, it is discovered that she is immune to the disease. dr. erland, the head researcher, starts to do research on cinder’s immunity, which leads to research on cinder’s unique physiology, her cyborg implants, and eventually to cinder’s life prior to becoming a cyborg at the age of eleven, which cinder has no memory of.
cinder (novel)
cinder proceeds to find levana, who has thorne in the throne room, tied up by the balcony. every step forward cinder takes, thorne is forced to take one back. levana tells cinder that cinder's mother, queen channary, forced levana to set her face on fire as a child and made her this way. she then demands cinder relinquish all claims to the throne or she kills thorne. when thorne calls her bluff, levana has him jump, with cinder catching him at the last moment. they wrestle and thorne is about to shoot (under levana's control) cinder when cress comes and shoots it out of his hand, hitting his hand. still being controlled by levana, thorne stabs cress in the stomach. as cinder is distracted with trying to kill levana, throne stabs cinder in the thigh (apologizing to everyone the entire time). scarlet and wolf show up, scarlet gets controlled by levana and cinder is forced to knock her out. wolf rushes to her aid and as the only one not able to be controlled, helps scarlet and cress. levana and cinder battle it out, both turning their own guns on themselves. levana feigns penance, then stabs cinder in the chest, who in turn shoots her. levana dies, while cinder survives due to being a cyborg.
winter (meyer novel)