Saturday, September 4, 2010
Journey of the hero: Post 1
The book I chose to read was called 'Ark Angel'. This book's main character's name is Alex Rider. He is at the age of 14 and he is the teenager spy recruited by a national British organization called M16. Alex was sent to the hospital due to the attack of the assasin. On his last day at the hospital, he witnessed four assasions trying to kidnap a boy named Paul Drevin. Alex tried his best to save the boy since Paul had became his friend as he was healing in hospital. Even though he had severely damamged all the assasins, he was captured by a terrorists who call themselves Force Three. Alex dramatically escapes and comes back in one piece safe once again back to his house. Later, Alex had found that Paul Drevin was actually the son of the multibillionaire who wanted to repay and thank him. He was invited to the luxury no one would ever have dreamed before. While he was on his vacation with Paul and his dad since Paul's dad and mom divorced, he had found out that something was not right and that came really clear when Mr.Drevin had almost killed Alex while they were having the Go-Kart race on purpose. Alex had decided to leave them on the final journey to the America to his housekeeper named Jack Starbright. However, on the airport, he found that his passport had been expired even though he had made it only four years ago. That made him stay on the airport for 24 hours and had been sent to talk to Mr.Bryne the head of operation in the CIA. He was told that Mr.Drevin was actually the biggest criminal for he was about to send up the hotel up in the space. This project was called an Ark Angel and had used more than billions of dollars to prepare this project. Mr.Bryne had requested him to go back and enjoy the vacation with the Drevin family but report to the CIA if something goes wrong and if he finds something strange. Alex Rider had gone back to the airport and met Paul and his father as if nothing happened. They had gone to the island which Mr.Drevin had bought and where the Ark Angel was being prepared. While they were resting, Alex had been asked to the Scuba Diving with a guard down to the the ship wreck that had sunk in the World War II. Paul couldn't accompany him due to his asthma. The guard named Kolo had accompanied Alex but locked Alex on inside the ship so that Alex would drown and suffocate. The reason was because the head of the security had realized that Alex was the spy working for the M16 and the CIA. However, the Mr.Drevin's secretary had saved Alex's life for she was actually the agent for the CIA. They came up to the surface and waited for the boat to come because the secretary had heard that the boat was coming in late in the night which would mean that they would come in quietely so that no one would notice. They waited and Alex was shocked to see the Force Three who had attempted to kill Alex land on the island. At that moment, they were found by the guards and were captured. Mr.Drevin told Alex everything about his plan for he clearly thought he would be dead. Mr.Drevin's plan was that the project Ark Angel wasn't going too well and had many problems which made him want to just quit all about the Ark Angel. So he made a plan too destroy Ark Angel and still get the money back from the government without letting them noticing anything suspicous. The world still thought that Force Three was a terroists but they had actually worked for Mr.Drevin. He would pretend that they set up a bomb and to set the rocket to go directly to The Pentagon building in the US. Mr.Drevin would pretend that he didn't know about this and pretend to fight with the Force Three and have the Force Three lying on the island when the CIA and the government came to investigate. However, the force three didn't know anything about them having to lie on the ground dead. The leader named Combat Jack had asked Mr.Drevin about how he was going to fake them dying, but with a smile Mr.Drevin had shot all four of the Force Three. Alex was shocked but couldn't do anything but just get locked up and wait their death with the secretary. However, Alex escaped with the sharp shoelace that CIA had made and got the back up team to come and invade the island. Mr.Drevin was killed but the rocket had been sent. After two hours, the bomb would explode and the Ark Angel would fall to the Pentagon building. The CIA made this crazy idea about sending Alex up to the space and to deactivate the bomb. Finally Alex was sent up to the space with a rocket towards the Ark Angel. This was where I finished and I wonder if Alex Rider would really be the hero. I hope that my hero would succeed and come back safely.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Eric, way too much writing. Just asking what the journey is. How about prompt #2?
ReplyDelete