“A spray of bullets had caught the car full on the drivers side” (Horowitz 19). In the thriller by Anthony Horowitz, Alex Rider Stormbreaker, the main character Alex is misinformed about the death of his uncle in a car crash. The story takes place in Britain, where Alex thinks his uncle was a banker. Later, he found out that he actually worked for MI6, which is the British intelligence agency. Alex is then secretly recruited by the special operations for that same agency. He shifts from a static to dynamic character through the events at his house when the officers told him his uncle had died, at the junkyard, and at the bank. First, policemen showed up at Alex’s home to tell him that his uncle died in a car crash. He knew he was about to receive bad news by “the way the police stood there” (Horowitz 2). Alex always knew his uncle to be a safe driver, so when 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 Wierda 3 window and jumped to the other side of the wall where the office was. Once Alex got to the window, "[He] slid the window open and hoisted himself into [the] second office” (Horowitz 35). The lady that had taken the call earlier had come back and opened the door on him, then congratulating him on his recent courageous behaviors that allowed him to become a part of the MI6. He was unaware that he had been being recruited. Again, his new dynamic characteristics show because he made a death defying jump to get into the office which he may have previously just waited on the door to be unlocked. If all of these events did not happen, Alex would still be a static character. Through all of his courage, he found what he was looking for. He dug deep and went to the extremes that were not normal of himself. All of his work lead to his dynamic
...ed the narrator have they seen Al because his bike was on the ground. The narrator was speechless and is thinking to himself “I wanted to get out of the car and retch, I wanted to go home to my parents’ house and crawl into bed” (par. 33). Also when the lady asked them if they wanted to take some drugs and party, the narrator just looked at her and said “I thought I was going to cry” (par. 35). Before these events, the narrator would have partied with the girls but now after going through these experiences, he realized he isn’t bad as he thought himself to be.
The story kicks off right away as Duff is leaving his parents’ house in Richmond, Virginia. He is beginning his journey to Los Angeles to be a computer programmer. He leaves his home town in his used three-thousand dollar, white, Ford Escort. He bought the car from the owner of a pizza shop down the street strictly for the long trip. Duff didn’t care much about cars, as longs as they get him from place to place. Duff pulls onto the highway and drives for about fifteen minutes before something goes terribly wrong. A weird noise came from the front of the car and then a loud bang. The car rolled to a stop near a small exit. Duff looked at the engine, but had no hope of knowing what happened. So Duff called a tow-truck which took the car five miles west to a garage in a small hick town. The mechanics diagnosed that he had thrown an engine rod. This usually happens if the engine doesn’t get oiled enough. Duff had no idea of the last oil change since he had only had the car for two weeks.
The first close-to-death experience the narrator and his posse have involves a case of mistaken identity. The group wrongly identifies a lone car as that belonging to a mutual friend and flash their headlights in a
He creates one final broadcast that ‘describes German unification as a collective show of support for socialism rather than capitalism’ (Doughty, 38). Alex realizes that the GDR he created for his mother is the one he wished to have. Through this realization Alex is able to let go of the space he has created for himself to protect his identity because he understands that letting for of this state and moving forward does not mean he has to forget everything in his past. He now understands that he can maintain a link to his personal past, and his mother, but is still able to move forward in a unified Germany.
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
In a sense he was very spiritual but in the type where instead of religion his beliefs were tight knitted. His beliefs were so strong that he couldn't escape them in the city where everything is corrupted; nevertheless, he left to wilderness to find the peace he was looking in this world. Yet to leave he had to leave his past which in a sense would only weigh him down “ he intended to invent an utter new life for himself… No longer would he answer to Chris McCandless; he was now Alexander Supertramp, master of his own destiny.” With his new name Alex had found new family that understood him and when it was time to leave them it was hard. He was committed to finding a purpose for his life in the wilderness; however, it was hard to leave the new family he came to love, “ I noticed he was crying. That frightened me. He wasn't planning on being gone all that long; I figured he wouldn't have been crying unless he intended to take some
In Part 1 Alex does have a choice from being a good citizen and being a knob, but in his case it’s interesting because of his mental state. You can clearly see from his actions that he is a deranged psychopath who lacks the knowledge of consequences from his actions. He does, in fact, have a choice to act as a better person, but
It is not until Alex’s job is in jeopardy that he decides to devour into his
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
The main idea is to be yourself, not to change for someone else. In the beginning, Alex lived in Quill, a place where you could be anything but yourself. If you showed creativity in any way shape or form, you had an infraction. At age thirteen, those with infractions were Unwanteds, depending on how serious the infraction. Quill believed that all unwanteds were eliminated in the Great Lake of Boiling Oil- Even the high priestess.When Alex was “eliminated” he was welcomed by Marcus Today, and the world of Artimè, where creativity was embraced and taught- pretty much a polar opposite of Quill. Alex becomes good friends with 3 other Unwanteds, Samheed, Lani, and Meghan. They were all really close- until they all began Magical Warrior training- all except for Alex. Alex pulls away from the others for a while, until eventually he starts training himself. The whole group was really brought back together after the battle with Quill.
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
Throughout the commencement of the story, the main character perceives the situation as negative. When he first thinks of the situation, he envisions being confronted with anger: “Walking to the car, which you have ruined, it occurs to you that if the three teenagers are angry teenagers, this encounter could be very unpleasant” (Par. 2). As he approaches the Camaro, he sees the three teena...
Bullet in the Brain by Tobias Wolff was about a man referred to as Anders that makes a trip to the bank right before it closes. He stands in a large line right behind two loud mouthed women, who put him in a murderous temper which is suggests foreshadowing. As he was waiting in line one of the tellers put a closed sign in her window and relaxed in the back. Anders and the women became annoyed. The climax or turning point would be when men in ski mask came into the bank holding guns. Anders and one of the men had words about Anders not keeping his mouth shut. One of the loud mouth ladies even asked Anders to please be quite. Unfortunately he did not listen, and the robber had enough of his saractericic out bursts and he shot him in the head. After being shot, all the memories that Anders had were gone. The memoriers of his daughter, his first lover,
In society, any accidents are perceived as negative outcomes illustrate a terrible ending that has taken place but in reality it can be perceived as something positive in the long run. By obstructing the 2005 Camaro and the three teens, it occurred that no one was injured and everything was calm. Accident by Dave Egger represents how a bad decision becomes a point of conflict and symbolism within the theme of the story.
His clothing, his words, his overall attitude. The distinction between the two is triggered by the gentle sounds of Ludwig Van. Beethoven. The.. & nbsp; The psychology of Alex would be that of a serial killer. He is a classic.