Stormbreaker Character Analysis

One of the themes that was pointed out through the book is, family is worth dying for. Alex proves this over and over again when he chooses to walk to Warren where his family is. He could have easily stayed and found a safer way out but he needed his family so much that he risked his life to walk through ash and snow just to

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

Alex is a pilot in the Navy that is very proud of his military discipline and high standards. He came to see Dr Paul after he bombarded a school in Baghdad thinking that it was an insurgent safe house. As soon as Alex gets in the doctor’s office, he adopts an arrogant position and almost does not let Dr Paul talk. Alex tests Paul all the time, trying to control the topic of the

One of the things he has done is gone to the white house. When he went back home from the white house many people now knew him because of the movie “Bully” and they all felt bad for him, so now Alex has many friends and while at school he gets hugs from others. Alex still has Aspergers. Asperger's is like autism but not as bad. Since Alex does not get bullied anymore he now has his own website that donates money and his shirt from the website, that he wears says “I stand for the silent”. This means he is fighting for all people of bullying around the world to help

First off, Alex is clever and curious in the book Skeleton Key. He was clever throughout the book so far. At the start of the book it says, “He ran on tip toe… Now was the time to move” (Horowitz 135-136). This quotes explains that he was on a yacht and saw that one of his partners was in trouble and being held hostage. Alex thought a diversion quickly, which was to set the yacht on fire. His goal was to get everyone outside to help put out the fire while Alex and his partner escaped without being seen. It went exactly as planned, but the boss was still in the room and he had to kill him to save his partner. Further, the second reason he is clever is how he fought the security guard. During the fight he is thinking how is he going to attack the enemy and defend him while trying to find an escape during the fight.

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

Finally, at the end of the novel in Part Three, Alex is “cured” and has reverted back to his previous state of having a choice between being good or evil, thus acquiring that sense of free will once more.

Alex was interested in the history of wars but he is not realizing war is very harming and the impacts it has on people. Alex has a very arrogant and opinionated personality because he does not think beyond; for example, he only cared about the strategies but he is not going beyond of what people had to go through and their emotions. He only cared about his thoughts and opinions and does not care what other people had to say. This also proves that he thought his dad was immature when he said, “Sometimes I wonder if my father will ever grow up” (Bell 1). When Alex and his father Ted came off the plane, Alex had to handle the boarding

To begin with, Alex is using is self reliance by having an answer for everything and thinking his will survive out in the wild.

This is further reinforced in his character’s name, “A-lex”, which literally means ‘without law’, showcasing that Alex is a character with a “law unto himself”. This choice of character’s name, coupled with the intimate close-up, demonstrates that he does not care for positive interactions within society and this therefore limits his sense of belonging to the group, but enhances his sense of belonging to himself.

In the short story “The Storm” by Kate Chopin, the main character Calixta is a wife and mother who appears to be unhappy and restless in her marriage and commits adultery. Calixta is able to fulfill her sexual desires with another man and does not feel guilty about it. Some readers may say that Calixta’s attitude on having an affair is selfish and most readers will not identify with the main character but may know characters that have Calixta’s mentality.

Alex was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia at the age of 24. Alex’s life was normal until a recently when he was diagnosed with schizophrenia after an episode when he described feeling like others was out to get him. Alex reports that he remembers hearing voices that told him that his family members were plotting to kill him, or hurt him in some manner. Alex also insists that he possesses divine powers and can interact with God. He even insists that some holy spirits have come in him. Alex acted out in anger to the point that his family was scared to be around him at times. When asked Alex reports that he felt as if he was an outcast when in school, and in society.

However, youth like Alex cannot be caught in the expected rubric of life and hence, they retaliate. Nevertheless, one cannot justify Alex’s actions worth applauding but Burgess seems to favour their actions as the only possible outlet for suppressed angst. In the first act, fourth chapter, Alex says,

Rather, when he sees or listen things related to them, he feels sick and sometimes vomit or simply go to bed. Especially in the beginning of the Part3, it shows the fact that the condition of his situation and how he feels towards it, is completely the opposite as before. Before, he was feared but also worried by his parents, but now he is the unwanted. Before, he was the one who violated people, but now he has become the victim of violence. Billyboy and Dim was once gangs that represented the evil this world, but now they became the police officer that is the good in this world. It is all as if Alex’s story has been mirrored between before and after the experiment. Before he gangs up with Rick, Len, and Bully, Alex wandered around the city since her family pushed him back from his house, though he ends up being at the cottage marked “HOME”. This is an ironic pattern for Alex because he was unwanted by his real “home” but he was accepted by “HOME”. However, even though F. Alexander the owner of the cottage accepted him, he tried to commit suicide saying “Goodbye, goodbye, may Bog forgive you for a reined life.” (loc. 2495) Interestingly, the order of places Alex goes after coming out of the harsh experiment, is the other way around as where he went before he went to prison. After his family refused him, he goes to the old record

In his environment Alex does not represent a stereotype of Modern Youth. Unlike his droogs he has significant intellectual and artistic potential. He is smart and calculating and indulges himself with vivid poetic visions through classical music, the height of which is represented by Ludwig van Beethoven. He is an artistic self confined in an environment that severs him from self-expression and self-definition. His artforms and mediums of expression become vandalism, rape, and ultra-violence. In his unrestricted state Alex is truly a-lex, outside the law.