In the book Unwanteds: Island of Graves by Lisa McMann, the two main characters, Alex and Aaron, are identical twins on the outside, but are completely different on the inside. Aaron is someone who forced his way into the government. He is a complete snob and he treats others like he is their superior. Alex on the other hand, earned his way as the leader in Artíme. He is caring and does not make others feel down about themselves. He always makes people feel special and important, and he puts his life in harm to help/save others. In this book, Gondoleery Rattrap, a person who used to do good things for Artíme, but she all the sudden starting hating them, takes over being high priest of Quill when Aaron gets kidnapped. She is really evil and …show more content…
One of them is Alex’s really good friend, Meghan. To stop her, all of Artíme needs to band together to defeat Gondoleery Rattrap, and Alex learns that he may need to work with his worst enemy, to get the job done. Alex and Aaron eventually end up putting aside their own differences and band together to defeat Gondoleery Rattrap. Gondoleery starts raining mass destruction over all of Artíme. She comes in at Artíme and completely destroys everything. While that is happening, the pirates come into Quill and kidnap Aaron, who they think is Alex because they look alike. The reason they try and kidnap Alex is because he stole all of their trapped animals and took one of their slaves. This really made Alex mad even though Aaron is a really bad person. He would not wish it upon anyone to be kidnapped. Alex rushed upon a boat to try and save him but …show more content…
The reason he has not gone out to save Aaron yet is because he gave up on him. When he realized his mistake of going out to find him in the beginning of the book he turned around and stayed in Artíme. One of their spies has found out she is planning on putting a huge sheet of ice all over Artíme. This would be awful for Artíme because it would kill all their crops and put all the residents in a lot of danger. Alex does not want his residents to be in a lot of danger so he decides to call together a meeting with all his advisories. He has his blackboard, (which is a computer system that acts like a person and can talk. This computer system can also think on its own and think of a message to send out to everyone in Artíme when people need them to) Clive send a message to the blackboards of his advisors to meet to talk about a plan to stop Gondoleery. Alex and his advisories are thinking of a gameplan for how to defend off Gondoleery, after everyone has thrown around some ideas Simber proposes a plan that is very intriguing. Simber who is one of the statues that is alive who looks like a cat suggests, “‘Maybe the best solution is to find the rrreal Aarrron and brrring him back herrre’” (McMann 232). This is where the theme is really developed because it shows right where Alex starts to really think about teaming up with Aaron. “Alex studied his hands, clasped in front of him. After a
After he made it to Alaska and he found “The Magic Bus”, Alex began to run low on supplies. He was approaching starvation and he started to eating berries in a desperate way to survive. He accidently eats poisonous berries which increases his starvation and slowly destroys his digestive system. These berries ended up ultimately being what killed him. In his last days of life he was suffering and he had realized that he brought this upon himself and chose his own fate.
...and has to fight down his emotions, so we can relate to him. Ultimately, though, he keeps his self-control and wins out in the end, making him a true hero and a fine character.
The story starts out talking about how Alex is nervous for Day of the dead
Thesis: The Roanoke colony proved to be an unsuccessful venture in the New World for England, since leaders of the expedition held the viewpoint that privateering would prove to be the most profitable aspect of founding the new settlements in the West. However future, still unsuccessful attempts to make a permanent colony at Roanoke, helped England understand how to build a prosperous one; and it became a building block for establishing future colonies for England and helped shape the ideas that would help launch their empire.
It is true that identical twins have many similarities, but people tend to ignore their differences. The Jim twins, for example, may
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
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
In this book, Herod Sayle is the main villain, but he has lots of henchmen such as Mr Grin, Nadia Vole and Yassen Gregorovich. These henchmen trick Alex into thinking they are the good guys. Anthony Horowitz has written about the villains very well by describing their actions in detail. For example, Nadia Vole,, frees Alex from handcuffs, claiming that she is a fellow spy who worked with Ian Rider. However, as they head to find a mobile phone to call MI6 and inform them of Sayle's plan, she triggers a trapdoor that drops Alex into the jellyfish tank and stays behind to watch him die. Alex eventually escapes using the acne cream gadget to damage the tank's supporting iron girders, causing it to break apart, sending thousands of gallons of water crashing into the room. Mr. Grin knocks Alex out and uses knives to threaten him if he didn’t tell Herod Sayle everything he
Before they go and start the “ultra-violence” they drink milk that’s laced with drugs which makes Alex’s and his gang’s brutality even more nonchalant. At the beginning of the night the “droogs” beat a homeless man almost to death and right after they start a fight with another gang who are trying to rape a girl. After their fight they take a drive to a well-known author’s house, break in and beat the author almost to death and then raped his wife while singing “Singing in the Rain” and enjoying it. Alex’s victims are targeted because they apparently deserve it in Alex’s eyes. They beat that homeless man almost to death because he couldn’t stand to see a “slob” screaming about absolutely nothing.
Have you ever heard that twins could have completely different personalities, they could be friends, siblings, or possibly even enemies. Author Eric Wright creates a story about a writer who specializes in writing
Then she starts seeing him everywhere. When she was supposed to get her choice of husbands, when she was on a daily run with her best friend, Hana. Alex has a fake mark of the cure, using it to prove to people he’s not an Invalid. Invalid’s are people who are infected, who don’t do the ‘cures’, people who don’t believe in the cure. People nobody wants.
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My first reactions to his flaws centered on the author. My disappointments at first seemed a reaction to the writing but after reflection, I realized I was reacting to the character. I wanted to grab him, shake him, and yell "What are you thinking?! " Alex's theme is the question "How can someone so intelligent do something so dumb?" Or perhaps, as Alice sang "I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it".
He acquired knowledge the government intended on keeping secure, and it gave him the ability to escape. On his feet are your regular shoes with a twist. Along with the laces rest a wing. This is because Alex’s fundamental life beliefs all revolve around freedom.
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.