After crashing youre moms car, your now getting to do some community service with a old man named Sol, what could go wrong. In Notes from a midnight driver by Jordan Sonnenblick Alex is learning new ways of being himself. He starts off with a very bad deed but then he has to do some community service and threw that he learns from a polish man named sol that you will have to coop with your life When I first started reading Notes from a midnight driver you think that Alex is a no good person but after you start to be engaged with the book you start seeing that Alex has a more nicer version of himself. Alex is ignorant because he took the car without permission and crashed into a yard.(at page 3-5) This shows that he ignorant because taking things and breaking them and then he brushes the consequences away away. And he also says “It seemed like a good idea at the time” when obviously it was not, this shows that he is making excuses to brush this off and go on. Buwad was obviously not going to happen, he got in a lot of trouble and had to do community service and Sol which has helped alex grow a lot, and alex and …show more content…
An example of him being nicer such as (page 249) stated by Annette “Your not more sensitive as a musician. -- You're A more sensitive person.Look how you used to make fun of us behind our backs.” and “See? You were almost going to apologize. A year ago, you would have denied the whole thing , then started making up jokes as soon as I stopped talking. But now you’re just,I don't know, better.Nicer.” This shows that he was a bad person until Sol came around and made him “better” This shows that with sols guidance alex made a friend that he would have never made before and in a strange circumstance which is my
In conclusion it is seen that Alex has effectively changed into a man and has become a morally sensitive individual. He, for himself has chosen good
chosen to undergo a new “treatment” that the State has developed to “reform” criminals. After the State strips him of his choice to choose between good and evil, Alex can only do good now and even thinking of doing something bad makes him violently ill. Then, Alex is “rehabilitated” considered “rehabilitated”. Afterwards Alex is released where he encounters an “ex-droog” and one of his enemies, they beat him to a pulp and leave him out in the middle of nowhere. After coming to his senses, Alex makes his way to a house and in that house, right before Alex went to prison, h...
The author then looks back upon the time in his life when her mother decided to drive Hunter Jordan’s old car. However, she didn’t know how to drive, and was generally afraid to get behind the wheel. On that day, she drove crazily on the road, and declared to never drive again. James McBride also reflected on his life up to a teenager, who knew that bad things would occur in the not too distant future if he didn’t change his ways and behavior.
How White people assumed they were better than Indians and tried to bully a young boy under the US Reservation. Alexie was bullied by his classmates, teammates, and teachers since he was young because he was an Indian. Even though Alexie didn’t come from a good background, he found the right path and didn’t let his hands down. He had two ways to go to, either become a better, educated and strong person, either be like his brother Steven that was following a bad path, where Alexie chose to become a better and educated person. I believe that Alexie learned how to get stronger, and stand up for himself in the hard moments of his life by many struggles that he passed through. He overcame all his struggles and rose above them
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...
This is also often the next step after a severe loss in a family, evolving from the ‘recovery period.’ In the middle of the book, Alex becomes aware of his larger and larger isolation from the rest of his family. From this, he seems to try to change his actions; becoming less agitated and irate, but changing to just becoming focused on solving Caroline’s murder. “It didn’t take long for Tony Nicholson to start talking a blue streak about the club and the blackmail scheme after that. I’d seen it so many times before, the way suspects will start competing with each other once they sense the ground is shifting. To hear him tell it, Mara Kelly had set up the entire back end: Asian underground banking, public key cryptography -- everything they needed to stay out of reach for as long as they had.” (page 210) Alex begins to completely forget about ‘taking out his rage’ or ‘getting revenge’ to just solving his niece’s case and giving the rest of his family some closure. To achieve this, however, Alex slowly begins to seek more and more help from the rest of his family. “You’re going to be just fine, she had said to me. Maybe not quite the same, but still, just fine. You’re a police officer. She was right, of
As in all art, each masterpiece has a distinct mark from their specific artist. The literary arts are no exception, with each author leaving a prominent rhythm, style and language. Thomas Hardy is known for his poems of separation. Thomas found love when he was 30 years old, but his relationship went sour when his marriage to Emma Gifford became estranged. Emma later died leaving her husband an outcast. It was not until 1914 when Thomas Hardy married his second wife, Florence, that he understood how much he missed his first wife. In his poems, Hardy focuses on withering love and the being miserable after a loss. Also, he uses rhyme scheme, multiple cesuras and end stops and symbolism to conceal a deeper meaning of the poem. The two poems that connect the two aspects of Thomas Hardy’s style are Your Last Drive and The Workbox.
Alexie begins the essay by telling the audience some background information about himself and his family. He tells of how they lived on an Indian Reservation and survived on “a combination of irregular paychecks, hope, fear and government surplus food.” (Page 1, para. 1) Right from the start, Alexie grabs the emotions of his audience. Alexie then goes on to talk of his father and how because of his love for his father, he developed a love for reading. “My father loved books, and since I loved my father with an aching devotion, I decided to love books as well.” (Page 1, para. 2) He talks of how he taught himself to read and that because of the books he began to thirst for more knowledge. Alexie says that once he learned to read, he began to advance quickly in his schooling. However, because of his thirst for knowledge, he got into much trouble. “A smart Indian was a dangerous person, widely feared and ridiculed by Indians and non-Indians alike.” (Page 2, para. 6) This statement is one of the most powerful statements in the entire essay. The reason for this being that Alexie knows that trouble will come but he was not going to let it ...
In the short story “Night Drive by Will F. Jenkins”, Mr. Tobar did not commit any crimes because he needed to get revenge. His wife was killed by the same man which was Bob. On page 6 it states “Mrs. Tabor was killed somewhere along here.” Since the man killed his wife he gets the right to figure out who it is. Also, on page 8 it says “It was a bludgeon, a club, a thing with which to batter in lustful frenzy at a body helpless to resist any longer.” According to this quote Bob was about to make an effort to kill Mr. Tabor, which gives him the right to defend himself.
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.
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...
All stemming from the beginning lie regarding the truth about the state of the GDR, Alex continuously has to raise the ante. Alex has to fabricate the news from the
At the base of his family was Judaism. Their identity was firmly rooted in their religion. To Alex all he saw when he looked in the mirror or at other kids, at the furniture in people's homes, the way they spoke, was Jewish and not Jewish. His facial features and his name became sources of resentment and things he desperately wanted to change. Thoughts of being Alton C. Peterson and having a smaller nose consumed him. The pressure his parents put on him to go to temple and define himself as a Jew! Jew! Jew! Jew!, "sucking and sucking on the sour grape of a religion," made him crazy. Frustrated with dwelling on the past and the anxiety of being a perfect Jew, Alex insisted, "I also happen to be a human being!"
One case on how Alex is naïve is when he believed everything Julia Rothman, the head executive of Scorpia and also and criminal mastermind, told him. She told him lies about his boss and how his father died, which Alex, at the time, believed. Alex believed her because he didn’t know any better than to not trust strangers, especially from a criminal organization. Another example would be when Julia Rothman kept putting him through tests and procedures and he decided to be witty, versus use logic and ask around. “Doctor: I am perfectly qualified to give you an injection. You’re not going to tell me you’re afraid of a little prick? -Alex: I wouldn’t call you that”(Horowitz 171). That quote is related to why Alex is naïve because it shows he is not paying attention or looking out for anything that looks suspicious. Instead, he insults the doctor with the childish personality that he tends to display. This personality is consistent throughout the book and adds to his complacency within the
In the incident at camp he stood by his friend, Jack, and helped him up. This is kind because Auggie could have just ran without helping Jack up. Also, Auggie did not press charges against Julian even after he made the “plague”, put unkind notes in his locker, and had everyone ignore him and Jack. Lastly, Auggie did not hold a grudge against Jack when he talked bad about him on Halloween but instead forgave Jack when he asked for forgiveness. Those are some examples of Auggie’s kindness.