Alex Rider Snakehead Quotes

Mason “Puncake” Fields Literary Essay

“‘All right,’ she said. ‘We’ve listened to your proposition, Mr. Brooke. Now you can listen to my answer. It’s NO! Forget it! You said it yourself. These people are dangerous. Two of your 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, an action book that

The setting affects the story because to survive in this tough environment when you are just a fourteen year old trapped in a horribly litten crate with twenty strangers that might even be criminals, it requires a lot of courage. Evidence from the text that supports this idea is, “He pulled himself into the container, and seconds later the trapdoor slammed shut behind him. He heard the bolt slide across with a loud clang. Now there was no way out. It was only as he straightened up that he realized he could see. There was light inside the container. He looked around. Two dozen anxious faces stared at him. It seemed he wasn’t going to make this part of the journey alone.” This text evidence supports the idea because when you are surrounded by refugees who live a life completely different from yours, it might be okay to them to do something that might never ever be done in your country. Overall, this whole book has moments everywhere that show Alex’s courage because of the setting and how courage is essential to survive in this setting and plot as it

Alex Rider made it very clear near the middle of the book that he is not the cowardly character I truly thought he was. He changed a great deal from the beginning of the story from a fearful fourteen year old boy to a courageous young man at the end of the story. Alex learns about how sometimes, you should put other’s needs (and in this case lives) in front of his own. This is a great lesson he learned because the people who follow this teaching are the people who make a difference in society today. This whole idea links all the way back to my thesis that courage is necessary and is measured by someone’s ability and willingness to express courage, not by their size or strength because that lesson definitely requires courage. 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