Alex Rider Comparison
The concept of good and evil has always been debated. The comparison of two people, their background and their attitudes to life, lead one to determine a villain from a hero. But what makes one a hero? The first text chosen is a book series called ‘Alex Rider’, this series follows a 14 year old boy for two years who has been blackmailed into a war as MI9 (British intelligence) secret weapon. He goes on 7 different deadly missions and is forced to grow up and see the reality of things like death. The second text, ‘Hanna’, is a movie about a genetically modified girl who has spent 14 years training in the Antarctic with her ‘dad’ (an ex- secret agent), to kill the women who murdered her mother. When she is finally ready she discovers that years
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Her father teaches her to fight. Alex Rider starts off in a normal life, he goes to school, he has friends and he comes home to a warm meal. Alex Rider is black belt in karate and most other forms of martial arts; he is also fluent in 4 different languages. Both the protagonists were trained from a young age, but they were trained differently.
In the movie Hanna starts off with an immediate family. But by the end her mother dies, her grandmother dies and she discovers that her father isn’t really her father. Alex Rider also loses and has lost all of his immediate family, firstly his parents died in a freak accident, and then his legal guardian (his uncle) died in service to MI9. So both protagonists had no family, but they were at different stages of life when they lost such family.
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This put a twist in Hanna’s thinking, she doesn’t want to kill anymore. She wants to be loved. This twist changes the film and develops Hanna. She starts becoming more relatable, kind and the audiences’ understanding of the character softens. For Alex Rider there are two character defining twists in his plotline. The first is on the last day of army training, the exercise was to zip line across a river, Alex gets stuck halfway and he drops into the dark water. Emerging he had become immersed into the adult world. This plotline adjustment turns the character from a young, stereotypical teenager into a potential
Her father teaches her to fight. Alex Rider starts off in a normal life, he goes to school, he has friends and he comes home to a warm meal. Alex Rider is black belt in karate and most other forms of martial arts; he is also fluent in 4 different languages. Both the protagonists were trained from a young age, but they were trained differently.
In the movie Hanna starts off with an immediate family. But by the end her mother dies, her grandmother dies and she discovers that her father isn’t really her father. Alex Rider also loses and has lost all of his immediate family, firstly his parents died in a freak accident, and then his legal guardian (his uncle) died in service to MI9. So both protagonists had no family, but they were at different stages of life when they lost such family.
Throughout the …show more content…
This put a twist in Hanna’s thinking, she doesn’t want to kill anymore. She wants to be loved. This twist changes the film and develops Hanna. She starts becoming more relatable, kind and the audiences’ understanding of the character softens. For Alex Rider there are two character defining twists in his plotline. The first is on the last day of army training, the exercise was to zip line across a river, Alex gets stuck halfway and he drops into the dark water. Emerging he had become immersed into the adult world. This plotline adjustment turns the character from a young, stereotypical teenager into a potential