Alex Florence Book Report

I really admire the character of Alex because he is very courageous and intelligent. At the beginning of the book, Alex wanted to find out if the story about his uncle getting in a car accident was true or not, so he went to the auto wreckage center nearest his house to search for the car. Once he had been searching a lot for the vehicle, he ended up finding it to see it in perfect condition except for bullet holes in the windshield (p. 19). He heard people coming, so he hid inside the car. Then a big crane picked the car up and starting smashing it in a machine, with Alex still inside! After all the struggling, he managed to get out of the car just before it went through the part of the machine that totally crushes the car into a cylinder (p. 24). I felt pretty bad for Alex. It must have been hard for him to have to go through a really brutal training camp for something he didn’t even want to do, especially since he had just lost his last family member. He had no idea what was going to happen to him

         What is interesting is how later in the novel, Alex happens upon Alexander's home again, forgetting exactly why it seems so familiar.  Alexander gets his revenge on the poor Alex, who opens up to the horrors he suffered in prison, unknowingly telling Alexander ways to harm him.  Alexander represents Burgess' desire for vengeance; Burgess is able to take out his anger on Alex, a murdering rapist.

Alex had finally done the most absurd thing and escaped Furnace Penitentiary with the help of his roommate Simon and best friend Zee. Subsequently, due to the elopement of Alex and his friends the city goes into lockdown mode and everywhere,

Alex Morgan is the main character in the story, as she wrote this autobiography. She is very important in the story. She tells about her life from the day she was born to

Alex matures and grows through his experiences in China and is now aware of the human consequences that war has. Alex’s growth and maturity is shown when his dad is captured by PLA. Proof of this is when Alex and his dad are talking over the two way radio before Ted gets captured. He is very concerned for his Dad at this point in the book. This event is the beginning of Alex’s awakening. This event hits Alex hard and makes him realize the reality behind war. Another event that helps Alex articulate his new vision of war is when he sees Lau Xu die right in front of his eyes. He even describes the details of the shooting when he says “Crack! Lau Xu spun around, his arms flung skyward. Before he fell the AK 47 spit flame again and the burst blew Lao xu off his feet” (Bell 114). Another example of Alex’s growth leading up to his epiphany of hating war is when Xin-hua gets shot. This happens when Alex starts to beg the officer to let her go and says” Please let me talk to your commanding officer. I just want to-...CRACK. The sound of a single gunshot. I turned to look into the trees where they had taken Xin-Hua. Oh God no, I moaned. No, No ,Nooooooo!” (Bell 183). Alex is now fully aware of the horrible consequences of war after witnessing the death of his friends and his father getting

As he grew up to become a writer, we see pain in the story he tells. “I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life” (pg.18). Alexie wanted to be someone greater than what others expected him to be. People would put him down constantly, but he fought back just as much. He tried to save himself from the stereotypes of being just another dumb Indian. He had more determination to prove others wrong when it came too exceeding in reading to further excel in his daily life.

Alex is a 17 year old teenager from Canada, who is a protagonist in the Young-adult fiction book Forbidden City by William.E.Bell. He and his father who works as a journalist travel to China in 1989 to record events and report them back to Canada. Then a protest stirs up and the Tiananmen Square massacre begins. Alex’s father is captured recording the “illegal” events and is arrested. Alex fights back and barely escapes with a few tapes of the protest. He is reunited with his dad, and they return to Canada with tapes of the horrifying events.

Hassine begins his narrative as he is entering prison but this time as an inmate. Prior to his incarceration, Hassine was an attorney (Hassine, 2011). Even then as an attorney, the high walls of prison intimated Hassine (Hassine, 2011). As Hassine was being processed into the system, he expressed how he systematically became hopeless from the very prison structure itself as well as because of the intimidation he felt by uniforms. Prisons of the past actually had a goal to aid individuals through rehabilitation by instilling new values in order to correct the wrongs that one may have committed during their lifetime but today this is no longer true. . Hassine draws colorful depictions of how dim and unfamiliar a prison can be in which instills fear in an individual soon as he or she

In the book Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer, Krakauer writes about Christopher McCandless, a young man who drops everything in his life to go travel throughout the states and end up in Alaska to find the truth to his questions. But did Chris find the truth he desperately desired? Some would say that McCandless did, other would say that he has wasted his time and was being ignorant and stupid. I agree with the author, Jon Krakauer, that Christopher McCandless was not a crazy lunatic, a sociopath, or an outcast because he had made lots of friends while traveling, but there were times when Chris was incompetent, even though he managed to stay alive for quite awhile. Christopher McCandless had a pretty normal childhood.

There was a moment in the book where Westerberg was describing Alex’s characteristics. He said that Alex was a hard worker, and is what you’d call extremely ethical. He set pretty high standards for himself. You could tell right away that Alex was intelligent. In the book, I like the quote “Alex would donate all money from his college fund to charity, and nobody knew not even his parents.”

Towards the end of the book it is adoring how appreciative and emotionally mature he had become. Alex learns to depend on Beijing natives for the duration of his struggle to escape. The soldiers react violently

In the play, “Mission of Mercy” by Esther Lipnick Florence has many characteristics throughout the three scene play. She stays a good person throughout but still change slightly. In this three scene play you probably would want to be friends with Florence because she’s caring, supportive, kind, laid backed, persistently, and gets what she wants. Florence is caring and gets what she wants this is shown in scene one. For example, Parthenope says, “Yes, and she’ll have her way.”

Thesis: While school and prison seem to be polar opposites, they have many major similarities but only a few minuscule differences making it hard to differentiate between them First, the doors lock; they cut off free movement. Then there are the cameras keeping a sharp eye out of any suspicious behavior. The most dangerous part is the innumerable uniformed guards that prowl the halls looking for those attempting to escape.

The novel follows the story of a young asylum who is raped at the Hounds Place Hostel in Bedfordshire. The quest for justice for Anna the 14-year old’s attackers is one of the most challenging of cases that Lilly has ever handled in her child lawyering career. Anna had met three public schoolboys that had proceeded to horrifically assault her. Artan her best friend and fellow asylum seeker sought out Lilly to assist in bringing the boys to

Burgess uses Alex as a symbol of Jesus Christ. Although a connection between a murdering rapist and Christ appears implausible, beneath the surface of the novel Christ provides an undeniable analogy for Alex’s life. The three parts of the novel parallel Christ’s death, burial, and resurrection as Alex is captured, buried in prison, and returns to his previous state of mind after nearly dying. Alex’s resemblance to Christ is often alluded to throughout the novel, such as when Dr. Brodsky says that Alex “will be your true Christian,… ready to turn the other cheek, ready to be crucified rather than crucify” (126). The comparison between Alex and Christ proves an important part of the plot as it adds significance to Alex’s attempted suicide. His attempted suicide is no longer meaningless, but rather a sacrifice to expose the evils of the government.