Scorpia 4

This book is getting very interesting. Here is an over view of what has happened so far, just to refresh your memory. Alex Rider is looking for keys to his fathers life while on vacation with his friend, Tom, in Venice. He sees a speed boat gliding down the canal and he then sees a silver scorpion on the side., He realizes this is a Scorpia boat and he follows the occupants into a castle named the Ca'Vendova. He then goes to a lab on the coast of Italy o a lead that he found in the castle. He is confronted with a man, whose name is Nile, that he fought in the Ca'Vendova. Nile then realizes who this is, the son of the famous Scorpia agent John Rider. He brings Alex to a hotel on the Mediterranean sea and introduces his to one of the board members of Scorpia, Ms. Julia Rothman. She is a very powerful lady and she fell in love with Alex's father when he was a member of Scorpia before he died. She is conducting and operation. It is described in the following statement. "Alex, this operation is called Invisible Sword. A Middle Eastern client of ours is wants revenge on what the British and American troops did in the Middle East. He is paying Scorpia 25 Million dollars for our troubles, as you can see this is a very large sum of money. This operation will target London in the following weeks" (202).
Furthermore in the book we find out more about John Rider and his involvement in Scorpia. He was one of the best agents Scorpian had. We also learn, even though he was married, Ms. Rothman was in love with him. She describes he love in this quote. "I was very fond of your father, he was a very attractive man" (197). Alex then decides to follow his father's footsteps, after seeing his supposed death on a videotape, by joining Scorpia. Alex then heads to an island off the coast of Italy where he trains for Scorpia. He is sent on his first mission after a week of training. He is scheduled to kill a woman named Mrs. Jones, one of his leaders when he worked for MI6. She was also the one who ordered his fathers death. He cannot kill her because when he shoots there is a pane of glass in front of her that is bullet proof. He then is captured. He then attends a meeting of Britain's leaders to figure out what to do because Scorpia has said that they will use Invisible Sword to kill all of London's school children if the US and GB don't comply with their demands. They also said that there will be a showcase of the weapon, which will kill all the GB soccer players. I cannot wait to find out what the weapon is, and what it will do. I also want to find out what will happen to Alex, will they kill him or will they let him go?
This book has been amazing, I cannot wait to finish it. I hope that I can fit the ending into one more post!!

Scorpia 3

My book has been great so far. This book is similar to, Extremley Loud and Incredibley Close, in a few ways. First of all, the main cahracter, Alex Rider, is searching for something like Oskar in EL and IC. He is searching for keys to his fathers life. This is very similar to Oskars search becuase he is looking for something to do with his father. He is just searching for answers to what his father was like. One last thing that is similar between them is that their fathers were both great men. Alex's search is summed up in the following quote, "Mrs. Rothman, all I want to know is what my father was like" (124).
This book is interesting the whole way through. Alex is continually trying to find answers about his father and at the same time he is try to stop Scorpia's attack on London's school children. He needs to stop an attack that Mrs. Rothman describes by saying, "At exactly 4:15 next Thursday, all the school children in London will perish" (201). It is very challenging because Alex doesn't even know what the weapon that she is using is called, or most importantly, does. This book is very good and I cannot wait to find out more about it!

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Scorpia 2

There are many conflicts that the characters are involved in. Alex Rider, the main character, needs to somehow find a way to stop Scorpia's weapon, The Invisible Sword, that will kill thousands of London school children within 72 hours. This conflict is described in the following sentences, "If you don't respond to our demands, then-at exactly four o'clock next Thursday afternoon- many thousands of London school children will die" (164). This is his biggest threat in all of the books so far. I don't know what will happen because I don;t know what "Invisible Sword" is yet.
Alex Rider faces a grave decision in this book. He see's a tape of how his father died and is presented by the idea that Mrs. Jones, one of the heads of MI6, was the one who gave the order to kill John Rider, Alex's late father. He is then given the assignment, his first with the terrorist organization Scorpia, to kill Mrs. Jones, a woman who has helped him throughout his time when he was working for MI6. His actions are shown in the following sentence, "He aimed the gun straight at her. He let the hatred take him. And fired" (198). He tried to shoot Mrs. Jones, but he didn't realize that she was standing in front of bulletproof glass. He had to struggle to make himself pull the trigger and that was one of his biggest decisions in the book. I like this book a lot still. I cannot wait to finish it.

Scorpia 1

I am reading Scorpia, by Anthony Horowitz for my O.R. assignment. It is a book about a teenage kid, Alex Rider, that works for the British version of the CIA, which is called MI6. This is the 5th book in this series. The book is about how he goes to find answers about his fathers premature death, he was only on when his father died. MI6 told him that his father worked for them, but in the previous book the an assassin who was dying told him about his father and his destiny. He said, "Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny" (23). Yassen, who is the assassin, meant that he needs to go and Scorpia, and he will find all his answers.
The main characters in this book are Alex Rider, Julia Rothman, and Mrs. Jones. Alex is a smart and athletic teenage boy. He was recruited by MI6 after his Father and Uncle pass away. He looks normal from the outside, but on the inside he is really a highly trained spy. He is very nice and thoughtful. He cares about his family and friends. He is motivated by the idea of finding more about his Father. His motivation is described in this thought, "What he hadn't been able to tell his friend was the real reason he was here. Scorpia, to find more about his Father" (23). Julia Rothman is a ruthless, deceiving, and businesslike woman. She is the boss of the terrorist organization Scorpia. She is motivated by one thing, money. Mrs. Jones is the second in command of MI6. She is the one who ordered Alex's Dad, John Rider, to death. Alex is unaware of this throughout the first part of the book. She is very nice though, and motherly like. She cares about Alex because he own kids were taken from her a long time ago. She is motivated by her love for her job. So far this book is amazing.

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Why do people write memoirs?
What power is there in telling our own stories?

People write memoirs to tell important events in their life or their life story. People like to tell about their own life experiences so they write memoirs. People also write memoirs because it kind of gives their life closure. Older people get to write about their life story and how they have lived. This gives them a good use of their time and it helps them give back to the world they are leaving. Middle age people also write memoirs if they accomplish something important. They do this to show what they have accomplished and how they accomplished it.

There is alot of power in telling our own stories. It shows the kind of person we are in the way we tell our story and in the story we tell. I also shows the power that we can be honest because many people will look at our memoir and they will critque it, hopefully they will say that it is true because why would you write it if it wasn't. You can also say whatever you want to when writing your memoir, this shows freedom power.These are the powers in telling our own stories.

Number 2

What types of things does Richard "hunger" for
and what are the effects (positive and negative) of hunger?

There are many things that Richard hungers for. He, first off, hungers for food and water, the necessities. Next, he hungers for a permanent dwelling because he is always moving around from place to place. He then hungers for an education. He wants a good education but he can never seem to get it because something always pops up during school. This causes him to loose valuable learning that he will need to make up later. Furthermore, Richard hungers for a job and his own money. He sees many kids buying lunches and clothes with their money. He doesn't have any money because he doesn't have a job, so he has to hunger for that too. He also hungers for love because he has abusive relationship with almost all of his relatives. This is what Richard, the main character in Black Boy, hungers.
There are many effects of hunger, some are positive and some are negative. Some positive effects of hunger is that you want something really bad so you are working very hard to get or obtain it. Another positive effect is that good hunger will help you set goals and that is good because it gives you something to work for. A negative effect of hunger is that you can become ill and malnutritioned if you are hungering for food. You can eventually die too. More on, a negative effect of hunger is that you might do crazy things in order to reach what you are trying to accomplish or hunger for. These are the negative and positive effects of hunger. I still don't like this book very much, but my OR one is very good.