Friday, October 16, 2009

Other links

www.wikipedia.org, www.alexrider.com

Plot line structure of the book

Exposition:Alex, Ian Rider, Allan Blunt, Mrs. Jones, Yassen Gregorovich, Herod Sayles.
Britain at the storm breakers headquarters
Alex Rider is forced to work for the M16 and is forced to investigate the Storm breakers operation

Rising Action: Herod Sayles is building a new super computer called storm breaker and plans to unleash a small pox's virus to kill a lot of British students.

Climax: Alex drops in and destroys the storm breakers and then Herod Sayles gets away.

Falling Action: After the incident Alexs takes a cab home but sayles is is driving and the he leads him up to the top of the building to kill him. But Yassen assassinates him and then flies off in a helicopter.

Resolution: The storm breaker is stopped and destroyed and Alex goes back to live out his life.

Reaction

My first reaction to the book when i first finished it was like, this was the best book Ive read yet. From the first moment i picked it up and from the second i finished it was the most action packed book. Their were a lot of details in the writing and the characters were explained through deep detail. Also I just got to say this is the bet book in one of the greatest series of books yet.

Resolution

Resolution: In the end the problem is solved after Alex escapes from a hijacked airplane and parachutes through the London science museum roof and opens fire on Herod and his men and accidentally shoots the prime minister and hits in the arm. After the incident happened the police show up and they recall all the stormbreakers and and Alex gets a debriefing and then is sent home in a taxi and thinks he is going home but the driver is Sayles and leads him to the top of a roof where Sayles is going to kill him. But Yassen shoots Sayles from a helicopter and then Alex tells Yassen only day he will kill him, and then the book ends.

Theme

Theme: The theme of this book is about a kid and his uncle training him to become a spy in the near future to takes his place and carrie on the family tradition they started. When Alex Rider doesn't even know whats going on. He thought all of the training exercises were just vacationing trips with the family.

Antagonist

Antagonist: Herod Sayle was one of 13 children in his family. When he was 7 years old he saved a wealthy family from being crushed to death by a piano. They were so grateful of him they decided to adopted him. Soon after he attend school in Britain and loved school, but was severely bullied. After school he attend Cambridge University where he received a first in economics and built a successful business, and developed a computer called Stormbreaker and planted a small pox virus in it and planed to kill every British child in all of Britain.

Protagonist

Protagonist: Alex Rider is only 14, and he was raised by his uncle, Ian Rider, until he was killed by a contract killer named Yassen Gregorovich. Later on he let his house keeper Jack Starbright take him as her own. Soon after Alex was forced to work with the M16 to take over what his uncle started. Now hes on a mission trying to finish what his uncle started and trying to get out of the heart of the stormbreaker operation alive.