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
Edwin ended up entering a murder scene, he panicked and instead of calling the cops first, he ended up calling Alex. Edwin ended up dragging Alex ...
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.
...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.
Alex Cormier dynamically changed in character while overcoming the obstacles of a strict work life, and self-advocates her life to benefit not only her, but the people she loves too. In the majority of the time before the school shooting, Alex immerses herself in her new position as a court judge. Immediately after the school shooting, she begins to show changes in her assets and, slowly and unsurely, begins to become more aware of the people around her. Alex, finally able to find a balance in life, shows her dynamic change as well as obtaining a happier life for her and the people around her.
on how to manage the girls. In the end he decides to get Alice and
information to WikiLeaks and was later arrested after his actions were reported to the U.S.
news to learn that something so horrible caused this students to kill their own peers.
It is not until Alex’s job is in jeopardy that he decides to devour into his
"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.
The psychology of Alex would be that of a serial killer. He is a classic
Alex’s dad, in the novel, ran away from his marriage with Alex’s 3rd Grade teacher. He was perhaps disappointed with Alex’s mom. Alex’s mom, as a result, was mad at his dad. Her frustration was justifiable but after completing the novel it became clear that the couple’s frustrations and disappointments were immediate and did not last for ever.
The book also discussed the family life of Alex which went up and down because his job took most of time and kept him away from them.
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
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