Sunday, September 30, 2007

Stormbreaker

In the following chapters Alex is briefed on his mission. he has to spy on a man who is giving computers to every school in the country for free. MI6 has reason to believe that this man named Salye is up to no good. The prime minister refuses to listen because he is so excited about all the free computers. So Alex goes in as a spy and imediatly find it strange there is extremly high security and When ever he listens in on a conversation with one of his gadgets people are talking about late night meetings and other strange things. Alex follows a convoy to one of these late night meetings and they arrive at the beach and a submarine submerges. A man known to be acontract killer gets off and has the men unload a large amount of silver boxes. Alex thinks it might be computer software but one of the workers drops a box and is shoot because of it. Alex thinks no one shoots someone for droping a couple CD's. Theres something up and alex is going to get to the bottom of it.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

Stormbreaker

Alex Rider exhibits many traits one of his main one is curiosity. Alex is very adventures and when he feels taht somthing is out of place he has to go ckeck it out this gets him into trouble. The day he visits the junkyard to find his uncles car riddled with bullets he is almost cruched in a car compactor and shot. Alex also almost got him self killed at the MI6 headquarters when he jumped out of a window to break into another office and almost fell fifteen stories to his death. I think that this curiosity may lead to Alex getting in alot of trouble on his mission but also being a very good spy for MI6.

Sunday, September 23, 2007

Stormbreaker

The book Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz is about a 14 year old boy who loses his uncle in a mysterieous car accident. The first thing that Alex thinks is strange is when the police told him that his uncle ian had not been wearing a seat belt. Alex knew that his uncle always wore his seatbelt. So alex decieds to go to the junk yard and find his uncles car just to be sure he actually was in an acciedent. It turns out Ian Riders car had been riddled with bullets. Then things just get stranger Alex is told his uncle was a spy for MI6 and that he was killed on a very important mission. They want Alex to complete his mission for him and when Alex rafuses they blackmale him and once he complies they send him to a training camp.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Black Boy

I really enjoyed the first two chapters of Black Boy. I thought our in class discussion on tuesday was interesting. I agree that the author wrote this book as if i all happed to someone else he is very emotionless. The book clips along at a good pace and richard does get in alot of trouble. Age four he burns down the house, then he hides under the burning house. Then at his grandmothers he tells her to kiss his butt when she is bathing him. He writes obsenities on the neighbors windows, hangs a cat, runs away, gets evicted for peeping in on the whore house and more all before the age of nine. Richard also has a strange irrtional fear of many things and reacts to them by freezing up and being un able to do anything. This is what i thought of the first two chapters of Black Boy.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007