Alex Rider Essays

  • Character Analysis Of Alex Rider

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    My 1st character i'll be concerning is Alex rider one trait he has about him is he's a very fast thinker, as an example, he is aware of what to try to do in a very bad situation and he will react fast as an example once alex was stuck within an car and was near to be crushed he thought if he smashed the window he may get out and he did however if I were there in that situation I might freeze and completely get crushed as a result of I am afraid however he is aware of what to try to do which may

  • Alex Rider: A Short Story

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    FUNERAL VOICES WHEN THE DOORBELL rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. Alex Rider was woken by the first chime. His eyes flickered open, but for a moment he stayed completely still in his bed, lying on his back with his head resting on the pillow. He heard a bedroom door open and a creak of wood as somebody went downstairs. The bell rang a second time, and he looked at the alarm clock glowing beside him. There was a rattle as someone slid the security chain off the front door. He rolled

  • Alex Rider Snakehead Quotes

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    spies have already been killed. There’s no way I’m going to allow Alex into that. Alex made up his own mind already and he said refused!’” When I first heard what Jack Starbright was saying about Alex Rider’s decision to not go and save the lives of thousands of people when he has the ability to, even if it means risking his life, I thought that he was a complete coward. As I kept reading, I discovered how wrong I truly was. Alex Rider is the main character in the book Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz

  • Alex Rider Snakehead Sparknotes

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    I am reading Alex Rider: Snakehead by Anthony Horowitz and I am currently on page 383. In the events prior to the current state of the plot line, teenage spy and M16 agent, Alex, returns back from outer space after his most recent mission, which then results in Alex consequently having peace of mind after prolonged periods of intensive stress ; However, Alex’s situation takes a turn of events as the Australian agency, ASIS, requires him to take part in their latest operation codenamed Snakehead.

  • Alex Rider: Point Blank

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    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

  • Analysis Of Alex Rider Stormbreaker

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    is the first line in my book Alex Rider Stormbreaker. My book starts off intense right away with the ringing of the doorbell. Alex is a Britain teenager who is woken up to his doorbell ringing. He gets up from his bed to find out that it is a cop asking if this is the house of Ian Rider. Alex then finds out that his uncle has died in a car crash but he has no details. Alex then is determined to find out exactly what had happened because it all just does not add up. Alex goes down to the bank where

  • Themes Of Stormbreaker By Anthony Horowitz

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    trying, but you should never give up, even in the worst time. The novel Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz, is about a 14 year old boy named Alex Rider which becomes a spy after his Uncle died. His first mission is to find information about Sayle Enterprises, owned by Herod Sayle, and why they are going to donate hundreds of computers to England. In this mission, Alex is able to enter their office building as a teen testing for the Stormbreaker (the computer), but he still has to go through multiple challenges

  • Lies And Deceit In Alex Rider's Scorpia

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    quick-witted MI6 spy Alex Rider gets entangled with a criminal organisation called Scorpia. In Horowitz’s novel Scorpia Alex’s world gets flipped upside down when he figures out that the father he was never acquainted with may have been an assassin for Scorpia. Now Scorpia thirsts to have Alex on their side and are deadset to get him. The reader questions if Alex will stay with MI6, who he believes have betrayed him, or join Scorpia and get his revenge. The character Alex Rider experiences character

  • Alex Rider Point Blank

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    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

  • Alex Rider Stormbreaker Analysis

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    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

  • Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz

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    The book, Stormbreaker, by Anthony Horowitz is about a boy named Alex, whose uncle had just died in a car crash (or so they say). He finds out that his uncle was really shot by a man named Yassen Gregorovich. Alex’s uncle, Ian Rider, really worked for MI6. He was a spy that was hired by MI6 to figure out the secret behind Herod Sayle and his Stormbreaker computers that he was donating to every school in England. Ian Rider had figured out the secret, but before he could reveal it to MI6, he was

  • Comparing Female Protagonists In The Hunger Games And Alex Rider

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    character is Tris, she is a brave, strong willed character, just like Katniss. The two novels, Hunger Games and Divergent, were both written by females, both of the female protagonists in the books have traits like male protagonists. And in the book Alex Rider, the male protagonists has traits of a normal male protagonist. Some people may think that the gender of the author does not affect the story in any way, but I think it does. Katniss Everdeen takes care of her family, you could say

  • Optional Helmet Law Is a Disaster for Pennsylvania

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    Governor Rendell signed the new motorcycle helmet law into effect, sentencing riders to death and increasing the tax burden caused by this new law. Pennsylvania is the 31st state to repeal its all-rider helmet law (Berenson 2). The new law states “no helmet is required for a person 21 years of age or older who has been licensed to operate a motorcycle for not less than 2 full calender [sic] years or has completed a motorcycle rider safety course approved by the Department of Transportation or the Motorcycle

  • The Two Towers

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    the king through his adviser out of his lands because he had a black character. The king decided to go to Helms Clam, where his nation should be saved. Gandalf didn’t have the same opinion and ridded away. On the way there they were attacked by War riders. In the fight Aragorn fell into a river. The kings adviser arrived in Isengard and told Saruman about the plan of the king. With this information Saruman sent his troops to Helms Clam. Merry and Pippin were in the middle of a huge wood with an Ent

  • lord of the rings, fellowship of the ring

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    for the Ring for years," Gandalf tells Frodo, "and now he has sent his nine Black Riders, to the Shire to look for it." Frodo and Sam consult with their loyal friends Merry and Pippin, and when the Black Riders appear, the hobbits trick them into going into a mushroom-patch, disorienting the Black Riders just long enough to escape the Shire. But the tone of the book rapidly becomes more serious as the Black Riders pursue the hobbits through the forest. The hobbits come to the village of Bree, and

  • Cabalgata The Horsetrail

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    doesn’t have an age requirement, but most participants are between the ages of 16-60. Most of the time young children are accompanied by their father. In this event, every year the amount of people that participate changes from 120-500 riders on this event. Hores riders are mainly from Acuña and pretty much know each other. Friends sign up and get together to interact amongst others. In the Northern part of Mexico two Cabalgata’s are held each year. One is “Acuña'; and the other is “Sabinas

  • Comparing Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Beckett’s Endgame

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    Synge’s Riders to the Sea and Beckett’s Endgame 1 1 Introduction Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge (1904) and Endgame by Samuel Beckett (1958) show many similarities despite the eventful half a century that passed between their years of publication. The similar elements (the setting, the relation of the characters to the outside world, etc., related in detail in the next section) seem to create an atmosphere in both works that is fit for the creation of a new

  • Riding Blind in Taylor’s Riding a One-Eyed Horse

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    that flows throughout the poem as he/she somberly instructs a potential rider how to ride his one-eyed beast. It's questionable as to how much the horse understands this situation. The first line grips the reader as the narrator states the horse's present condition. To state that "One side of his world is always missing" allows the attentive rider or listener to enter into the personal and physical world of the horse. The rider must have been shocked to hear that the majestic beast had such a disability

  • Characters' Reactions to Death in Riders to the Sea

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    Characters' Reactions to Death in Riders to the Sea In "Riders to the Sea" several reactions to the death of Michael take place when each of the individual characters learn of the tragedy and express their grief. The first, which would most naturally occur, is for someone to become extremely pessimistic. The character Mauyra most obviously becomes pessimistic even while she is still not sure of the fate of her son. Even the idea of Bartley leaving to sell the horses makes her nervous, she’s

  • Dirt Bikes

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    people ride dirt bikes for fun. They enjoy being out doors and finding new places to ride. They can follow an old trail or blaze a new one. Riders are basically free on their dirt bikes, just be sure that you know what your doing and do not get lost. Also make sure the area you are riding permits the use of dirt bikes. Due to the stupidity of some reckless riders areas for riding are diminishing.';(Chris Lace,45) This is true places to ride are becoming less and less due to a few unmannered people