The book I'm reading is Alex Rider Point Blank, by Anthony Horowitz. The setting is in multiple places, but the main setting is in the French Alps in the setting of point blank (the Academy for bad children with rich parents) it was originally an asylum, Alex describes the Academy when he first saw it as a jumble of towers and battlements, green sloping roofs and windows of every shape or size. He said it's a circular central area with two wings and that one, was bigger than the other one and there were two floors. He said snow is covering all the mountains also. The time is around modern times because they have all the same technologies as us today. The protagonist of the book is Alex Rider he is a kid from England and is a …show more content…
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
Then the Bell boys go to the rec center, JB goes of with Miss Sweet Tea and Josh plays a one on one game with his dad. Josh is beating him, and then Mr.Bell steals the ball and tries to show off to the people watching and tries to dunk but before he does. He got a heart attack he collapsed of the court and JB splashed his face. Josh remembered the cpr lesson in PE and tried it. No pulse. Mr.Bell went into a coma everyone was devastated, but it didn't last for long he woke up the day of christmas eve. They had a little family reunion in the hospital room but Mr.Bell had to stay in the hospital for a while. The day of the championship game, the Bell family(minus Mr.Bell) were going to start to go to the game, when a call comes that their father had another heart attack. Mrs.Bell leaves to the hospital and tells the boys to go to the game. JB doesn't want to and follows his mother to the hospital on bike. Josh thinks that his father would want him to play so he goes to the game. During the final 5 minutes JB shows up in the bleachers sobbing. Josh keeps playing till the final second, sobbing as well. He makes the final basket and they win the
Setting: This book starts out in this kids house his name is crash. Then they go to the arcade. That is where they spend most of the story. Then close to the end they go to the riverside.
The story’s time period is never mentioned but it is believably in present time, due to the use of computers and cell phones and other modern-day technology.
The story starts out talking about how Alex is nervous for Day of the dead
This book took place in the present time. It was mostly in Madison in Andy's high school and Madison Community College.
and bad breaks. All in all it was a good season, but not exactly what
So he did the right thing and fought back to show Noah and every bully that they shouldn't mess with anyone (GO GET THEM JIMMY!!!). In his mind Jimmy remembered all the action movies and video games that the hero always won and the bad guys always lost (Geak). So Jimmy went for a super uppercut to Chomp, Noah’s Right man. He ended up missing and hitting Tom in the eye and knocking him out cold. Then Chomp kicked Tom out of the way and grabbed Jimmy from the head and kneed him in the head so hard his head started to bleed but Jimmy did not fall. Jimmy looked at Tom and saw his shirt was ripped and he did not have any shoes, he was bleeding from his nose, coughing blood and one eye completely close and one closing because of Jimmy. Then he knew that to win and not go to the hospital would be to fight dirty and quick so they don’t get
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.
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
As previously stated, Kozol explains the physical conditions and the lack of funding. These two examples can useful to comparing the book with my school. Kozol states that physical appearance and health of students and staff can change the perception of students and what other people view the school and students as. Many enter Classical and see the ceiling falling and the outdated classrooms students use today. This can make an individual believe that this school is poor and not worth investing in. The physical appearance can create an illusion to any individual that only students in poor communities attend this school. In addition, it can also make them believe that they lack education compared to a well invested school in a wealthier community. However, Classical is the exact opposite of this. This school is a college preparatory school that is ranked number one in Rhode Island. Although the school may lack on its physical appearance it truly contradicts the stereotype that is said about school with similar physical appearances as Classical and create social and educational
book takes place in, is called to action and set in motion on his Hero
Jane Langton wrote a very interesting book. It goes with the other five fantasies of the Halls family, The Time Bike. The name of this book intrigues many people. It is about a kid named Eddy Hall. He gets a bike that he always wanted for his birthday, after it is stolen, he gets a package from India, and it was a box big enough for a bike.
This sensational novel is an adventure novel consisting of an enterprising Englishman touring the globe. Woven within are historical facts, such as the British Empire and colonies around the globe, as well as historically accurate locations.
...ital. They fed him well and he had an entire hospital wing to himself. The man who had conditioned him showed up and offered to take care of Alex and to be his friend. This shows Alex is starting to climb the pyramid again.
...d shots and Alan’s hand had gotten hit. The boys were back inside and the police called and told them that Doctor Curt had arrived. Doctor Curt spoke to the boys and told them that the first shot had been an accident; and that he had read the paper and it looked fine, so they could come out. The kids all walked out, they dropped their guns and were handcuffed, except for Zach who went to his mother and got his medication.