Book Report 1

Alex Rider is a fictional person who is in many pieces of literature, however the one I am doing is Scorpia. At the beginning of the book Alex is tired of MI6 using him with his caretaker as a form of blackmail, he wants out and to be normal. In most stories this would strike people as odd, as being a spy would be any teenager's dream, but the book makes it believable by making his character seem legit, from all the characterizations, as I will describe. At the beginning of the series of books Alex is quite shaken up, he has just seen his uncle shot on top of a building, dragging him into the spy game. From his childhood Alex was taught morals, honesty, cunning, and martial arts. His uncle had been looking after him as almost an adoptive father, after his parent's accident. Alex Rider seems to always come through, every time at a cost to himself and his own personality. This protagonist changes the most out of any book I have read, as in the beginning he is willing to do anything to find out what happened to his father and uncle and and more importantly, why, but later on abandons that thought and is just frustrated with the entire thing. Alex Rider seems to enjoy being a spy while they treat him like he can hold his own, but they treat him as an adult when they need to and a child all other times. He is not aloud any weapons on any of  his missions, and that gotten him into quite some predicaments. At one point he becomes extremely frustrated with MI6, showing that he is willing to do whatever as long as it helps someone, to a degree. Until he met the assassin sent to kill his uncle, he was willing to do anything MI6 said, showing he was overly trusting. The assassin revealed to him that it was MI6 that had his father killed, and whenever he asked about his father they dodged the questions, raising his suspicion and challenging his loyalty. In the book he finds out that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization called Scorpia that was like a private army, similar to modern day "Xe Services LLC" also known as "Black Water USA". Alex later goes on a vacation with his friend which is really a cover for him to investigate Scorpia, where he is nearly killed upon mentioning it. The fact that he goes under the assassin's word shows that he is easily influenced, or that he has a strong confidence in the ability to tell if someone is lying. Alex is a hero in many ways, one is the way that even though he loses confidence in MI6 rather early on, he still completes his missions after they practically abandon him every time. Alex is confident in the matter that regardless of how bleak the situation appears, he knows that it is possible, and knowing that finds a way, whereas you do not find ways to do things if you accept them as impossible. He is also determined mostly in the same manner, but more so in the way that he will not accept the fact that his father was a killer, and mostly joined Scorpia to prove his doubts wrong, and he was mostly correct. Alex finds out that his father was a double agent working for MI6, and that they did order him to be killed, but it was his fathers idea. There was supposed to be an exchange, because MI6 had supposedly taken him prisoner, and would release him for a noble. It was to happen on a bridge where they would be released at the same time, crossing each other in the middle, with the respective "teams" on either side. Once Alex's father was halfway across the bridge, he told the noble to run back to MI6, and he started running. MI6 then shot Alex's father. Alex saw this as they had recorded it, and it devastated him, and he wanted out more than ever. Alex saw all of this happen after he joined Scorpia, but had no explanation, just that his father had been an assassin and MI6 had gone back on their word. When he left Scorpia and went back to MI6, after Scorpia tried to kill him, he got the explanation he had been yearning for his entire career as a spy. Alex had his answer and he was beside himself with questions, he returned to his schooling, but he could never be normal again.