Alex Rider: Point Blank Alex Rider. A fourteen-year-old English super-spy for the Special Operations division of MI6. He has every boy's dream. Or does he? Ian Rider, who was Alex's uncle and guardian after his parents were killed in a plane crash, never told him what he really did for a living. Alex never discovered that his uncle was a secret agent until it was too late. On his return home from a mission, Uncle Ian was murdered by a Russian assassin. MI6 then forced Alex to complete that mission. Unbeknownst to him, his uncle had been training Alex his whole life to one day take his place. He could speak four languages, was an expert at several sports including scuba diving and rock climbing, and also had a black …show more content…
He signed the Official Secrets Act, and thought that that was the end of it. He solved their problem and then left the equation. But now they wanted him again. Alex is asked to investigate a boarding school for boys located high in the mountains on the Swiss border. It is run by Dr. Hugo Grief. He doesn't have a choice though, for now he is in the power of Alan Blunt, head of Special Operations. If he does not accept, MI6 will put him in the English foster care system, and Jack will be sent back to her home in America. Discontentedly, Alex accepts, and during his briefing, is told that the school is for "problem boys", meaning those that have been involved in drugs, vandalism, shoplifting, arson, etc., and is exclusively for the sons of the rich and famous. MI6 wants Alex to check out the school because two of the students' fathers have been killed within the last month, and this is the only connection between them. He will be enrolling at Point Blanc Academy as the son of Sir David Friend, a supermarket tycoon. To get to the know the background of his "family", Alex spends several days with the Friends at their country estate. His "sister", Fiona, is …show more content…
After the week is up, Mrs. Stellenbosch, who is the school superintendent, comes to pick Alex up and take him to the school. As they are traveling by helicopter, she informs him that they will have a one night layover in Paris to refuel. While there, she drugs Alex's drink during dinner, and many pictures and notes are taken of and about him. He wakes up in his hotel room the next morning and he and Mrs. Stellenbosch finish the trip to Point Blanc. Upon his arrival, Alex feels that something is amiss. The boys are not allowed any communication with their families except through letters. There are armed guards everywhere, the majority of the building is off limits, and five of the other six boys have an odd similarity. The only exception to this is a boy named James Sprintz, whose father is a multimillionaire banker. He, like MI6, believes that something is amiss. After a few days, Alex decides to do some sleuthing and explore the school. He ends up getting caught after trying it again a day or so later. In the basement he discovers boys that look exactly like the students upstairs, including Paul Roscoe, the son of one of the men
After this, Christopher mails his final college transcript and a brief note to his parents’ home with a note saying that they will never hear from him again. Shortly after these events, Chris decides to call himself Alex, short for Alexander Supertramp. This represents the rejection of his parents, along with their values. With getting rid of his materialistic belongings and gaining a new identity, he decides to cross the first threshold and continue on his journey and plan to rid himself of the materialistic world and seek adventure. Chris decides to embark on a journey to achieve his goal of adventure.
After reading this book, I was really amazed at how good the author described Alex Rider and how realistic he made him sound. I was baffled at how brave Alex was to accept the dangerous mission (p. 55) and become a spy. If I were Alex, I would have rather gone to the institution instead. I wouldn’t have been valiant enough to pursue the mission than an adult has died from elucidating. Later on in the book, I was annoyed when Nadia Vole, one of Herod Sayle’s employees, tricked Alex into thinking she w...
finally realizes that his son loves him and in a way holds him as number one,
involved in being black in blue. Alex was concerned with the ways in which the
"In October 1997, a 16-year old in Pearl, Mississippi, first killed his mother and then went to school and shot nine students, two fatally; in December 1997 a 14-year old went to his school in West Paducah, Kentucky, killed three students and wounded five others; in March last year, two boys, aged eleven and thirteen, killed four girls and a teacher outside their school in Jonesboro, Arkansas; the next month a science teacher was shot dead, allegedly by a 14-year old, at a school dance in Edinsboro, Pennsylvania; last May in Fayetteville, Tennessee, an 18-year old student allegedly shot dead a classmate in the school car park; two days later, in Springfield, Oregon, a 15-year old opened fire at his high school, killing two teenagers and wounding more than twenty (police later found that his parents had been killed at home) ("Lesson"). On April 20th of this year, two teenagers enter their school and open fire, killing 12 students and one teacher before taking their own lives.
By this point he proves his claim that in society, or school at his age,
news to learn that something so horrible caused this students to kill their own peers.
Soon after David beat up Sam, David and his brother Will go back to school from summer vacation. It’s a new school because it was just built. As David and Will go into school there is an explosion. A really big covering is put over the school and there are soldiers that come in and tell the students that they are quarantined because there is a virus in the building. There was a testing place near the school and a teenager that was infected by the virus escaped. The soldiers tell the kids and teachers that they are in danger of dying and they cannot leave the building because they will spread the virus.
As the ship leaves the shipyard at Polyarnyy, Ramius kills his political officer to ensure that he will not interfere with the defection, and writes a letter to Admiral Yuri Padorin, Natalia's uncle, blatantly stating his intention to defect. The Soviet Northern Fleet sails out to sink Red October under the cover of a search and rescue mission. Meanwhile, Ryan flies from London to Virginia to deliver MI6's photographs of Red October to the Deputy Director of Intelligence. Ryan consults a friend at the U.S. Naval Academy, ex-submariner Skip Tyler, and finds out that Red ...
Once Alex figures out that he doesn’t get violently ill when subjected to these things government officials apologize to him and compensate him for their fault. The camera pans out and Alex just smirks at the camera, so will he learn from this experience and learn new ways to cope with violence or was it all a waste and goes back to his
information to WikiLeaks and was later arrested after his actions were reported to the U.S.
...ad together hoping they forgive him. He says he will always treasure those moments and that even if they do not forgive him they can remember without so much pain.
path, he was the kind of father that lets you figure out stuff on your own. Even though your
James said,"yes it was me getting dragged down the steps" and that he was replaced with a replica. Alex then reveals his true identity and why he is at Point Blank. Then Mrs. Stellenbosch snuck up behind Alex and knocked him out, Alex was handcuffed to a chair and then Dr. Grief reveals his plans, Project Gemini. Project Gemini is a project where 16 identical 14-year-old copies of Dr. Grief were made. Then Dr. Grief used plastic surgery to make the clones look like the real boys at Point Blank. Then they switched the clone out for the real boy, the reason they had identical rooms upstairs was so the clones can see what the real kids act like and be like them. The whole plan behind this was when they're rich parents die and The clones inherit their money Dr. Grief will take it and become a world leader. Dr.Grief then takes Alex to his cell. Alex escapes the basement, then he uses an ironing board to snowboard down the mountain, there is a huge battle between Alex and all the guards and Alex ends up knocked out on the ground. Alex is then taken to a hospital in a nearby town the doctors tell Mrs. Stellenbosch, Alex is dead. But really what's happening is that Alex is with a team of SAS soldiers going back to the school to save the other kids. A huge fight scene happens and Mrs. Stellenbosch gets shot and dies and a SAS member dies too. Also, Alex drives a snowmobile into Dr. Grief helicopter as it tries to fly away and it explodes and kills Dr. Grief. Then all the clones were arrested and put in jail. Alex then goes back to normal, but when he gets to his school there is already a clone of him there so Alex fights the clone and one of them goes into a hole and the hole explodes. The book doesn't say which Alex it is that
The psychology of Alex would be that of a serial killer. He is a classic