Alex Rider: Toxin Island
(Alex Rider: Stormbreaker)
It had been almost one year since Alex had his first mission with the Military Intelligence, Section 6 (MI6). Since then, they hadn’t contacted him or even congratulated him for his efforts to stop Herod Sayle and his evil plan. Alex never earned fame for his stunt and so he had become a regular schoolboy again. He would eat breakfast, go to school, come back, and do his homework. Alex was working part time at a restaurant near his school. The only dream Alex had was a call from MI6. “Hey Alex!” yelled Jack, Alex’s housekeeper, “Get down here right now, you’re going to be late for school.” “Coming.” Alex sighed as he trudged down the stairs. “I can’t wait to do something boring in school again.”
“Just get out the door.” Alex left the house and he walked extremely slowly so that he could miss first period. Instead he was embarrassed by his teacher and missed an important lesson for a coming-up
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I didn’t realize that you loved being an agent so much. I know that even if I have to give you up, you are doing something amazing for your country and the world. If your uncle were here, he would be extremely proud of what you’ve accomplished. All I want to get across to you, is that I think you should go on that mission.” “I was hoping you would say that, because I think that I want to go on the mission.”
“Ok. Well let’s go to the office and tell them.” Alex and Jack went to the car and drove off to the office.” They went through the routine check and then they arrived at Mr. Blunt’s door. Mr. Blunt was doing some sort of meditation in his chair, but he woke as soon as he saw Alex.
“I see that you will be joining us on the mission.” he remarked. “Go down to the basement to get all the mission details from Mr. Smith. Hurry up, we have no time to lose.” Neither Alex, nor Jack had gotten to say one word to Mr. Blunt before Alex was summoned to the basement and Jack was told to
Gene jumped into the river even though he’s scared because of Finny’s persistence. After the two boys jumped, the other three refuses to do the jumping, so they headed back for dinner. Into their way back, the 2 best friends wrestle with one another and missed dinner. Consequently, they went straight to their rooms. Mr. Prud’homme, a substitute teacher for the summer session, went to Gene and Finny to discipline them the next morning for missing dinner, but he was soon won over by Finny’s ebullient talkativeness and leaves without giving punishment.
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...
In Anthony Horowitz’s, Alex Rider: Stormbreaker, Alex finds himself becoming the James Bond of kids. Waking up one morning in London, everything seemed normal until Alex Rider received a call from his uncle's business. Little did he know that he was about to find out about his uncle's death. They said his uncle died in a car accident, but the bulletholes in the windshield prove that this was not the case. Yet, Alex never suspected the truth. His uncle was really a spy for MI6, Britains top secret intelligence agency. Now, Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers.
In the story, Alex conveys courage by risking his life when he escapes the crate onto the heavily guarded ship and looks to go and disarm a bomb, nicknamed the “Royal Blue”, that was intended to kill thousands of people. By the end of the story, Alex changed a great deal throughout this whole
First published in 1962 (McNamee), follows fifteen year old Alex. The novel starts with Alex recounting a typical night of "ultraviolence" that he and his "droogs" participate in. The night includes drinking, drugs, and violence of the worst kind including rape. Eventually this lifestyle catches up to him, and Alex is arrested (Burgess 67). He is offered the opportunity to participate in an experimental procedure that it is believed will cure him of his violent behavior and his sentence is reduced (82). When he is released, Alex realizes that the treatment has rendered him effectively unable to make his own decisions about whether to do the right or the wrong thing as well as sucking pleasure out of every day things he used to enjoy such as music and art (156). Alex finds himself at the mercy of a man he had crossed in the past (167) and attempts to commit suicide (169). In the original British edition of the book, the final chapter reveals that after waking up in the hospital, Alex's went on to finally grow up and settle down, however in the first published version to reach America this final 21st chapter was left out so that the novel ended with the failing of the conditioning and Alex returning to his old ways (Jarvis).
... Alex eventually grows up. Violence, at the end of the novel, ceases to be his most desired form of creativity. Alex is ready to put his energies elsewhere. "At eighteen old Wolfgang Amadeus had written concertos and symphonies and operas and oratorios and all that cal, no, not cal, heavenly music" (189). The Ludovico technique that would have destroyed Alex would not have been something he could outgrow.
At the bank where Alex’s uncle's office had been, an undercover MI6 agent greeted him and said the door was locked. When she left the room to take a phone call, Alex crawled out a
All Alex knew was to be violent due to the failure and lack of family structure, the school system and the law. The lack of these assertive institutions Alex couldn’t properly generate proper moral values and social norms. According to Mead he analyzed that a child gets some sort of understanding of how to act properly by how others act toward the child. Later on in the child’s development he/she learns and understands “the generalized other”, values and cultural rules (textbook). Alex was never pressured into going to school, there is one scene where his mother wakes him and tells him to get ready for school and Alex tells her “he doesn’t feel like going today” and that was the end of it. With Alex missing out on school he never really self-aware and knowledgeable. His family is absent also. Again with Alex telling his mother he doesn’t feel like going to school and his mother just lets it go shows the carelessness of his parents. Alex can pretty much do whatever he wants when he wants. With their lack of parenting he never truly gained proper values and morals and instead he created his own by the morals and values his “droogs” know. He had many run in’s with the police even before he was
Alexander Stowe is a twin, his brother is Aaron Stowe. Alex is an Unwanted, Aaron is a Wanted, and their parents are Necessaries. Alex is creative in a world where you can’t even see the entire sky, and military is the dream job for everyone and anyone. He should have been eliminated, just like all the unwanteds should have been. He instead comes upon Artimè, where he trains as a magical warrior- after a while. When he was still in basic training, and his friends were not, he got upset, he wants to be the leader, the one everyone looks up to.
Alex McKnight is an ex-cop from Detroit, Michigan and moved to Paradise, Michigan because of a traumatic shooting that ended with his partner dead. Once caught the killer named Rose, who was convicted to life in prison but not until after the damage had been done. Alex could not handle to work as a cop anymore, he moved, and started to work as a private investigator for a local lawyer. Although the move seemed to be good at first his friend Edwin soon got him entangled in a murder case.
To begin, Alex is one out of the four characters that reveals self-awareness broadly. Alex begins by stating, “What’s it going to be then, eh” (Burgess 1). The use of this quote explains to the reader that Alex is not only self-aware of himself, but he is careless, and he is an outlaw. Another quote that Alex states throughout the novel is, “O my brothers” (Burgess 5). “O my brothers” reve...
Alex excelled at “transforming herself into the person she needed to be before she left the house,” (Picoult 5) incidentally pushing her daughter out of her tight circle of importance. Alex then becomes stuck in the middle of maintaining her judicial status and raising Josie. For the majority of the time before the shooting, Alex remains nearly entirely focused on her career in the hopes that her daughter can and will take care of herself, thus creating an obsession for working and giving little time for anything
It’s 10:30am and Janice, Alex’s mother, receives a phone call. “Hi Janice, this is Mrs. Smith calling with regards to Alex. Yes, he isn’t having a good day. He has been very disruptive this morning. We tried calling down Alex’s older sister to calm him down, and to talk to him, but he wouldn’t calm down. Would you please come and get him?”
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
...mmitted, now they have to deal with figuring out who Mr. Owen is. After the tape finished, everyone started freaking out. Mrs. Rogers faints and they take her up to bed. The guests decided to figure out the situation. They all brought the letter that they received inviting them to the island to see if there is a clue. Most of the guests explained the murder cases they were accused of and denied all accusations.