Non Fiction Reading Response

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/world/middleeast/syria-says-it-was-hit-by-strikes-from-israeli-planes.html?hp&_r=0
Siria Says It Was Hit by Israeli Planes by Isabel Kershner

Wars have scared people all over the world. The fear it brings to people and the civilians are part of it no matter what. It scares people to the point where they believe it is right to attck for the sake of their protection, and to prevent destruction in their country. Syria says something hit them and no one knows for sure that it is real or not. To show that they aren't the only ones in the war or to lie and not be the ones being pointed at for the 2 year war. Air strikes are everywhere making people believe that there aren't any place safe and no where to go.

No one knows who fault is it for this war to happen, but Syria is saying that they are innocent because they did no harm to Israel to even airstrike them in their place. “The weakening governance in neighboring countries that heralds greater exposure to hostile activity.” This is what Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel said that they are the main problem because they are the reason why this war hasn't stop. All they want is peace and not to end bad with a war destroying their home turf.

Some say that the aircraft was going to hit a truck convoy that was going to hit another country. “Israeli warplanes violated our airspace at dawn, bombing directly one of the research scientific centers in the Jimraya district in rural Damascus,” This is what the government said about the attck, but they said nothing about the convoy. Both countries are fighting to keep their border safe from the other countries but if both countries keep using airstikes then both countries and other countries involved with this will be destroyed.

reading response Alex Rider

I have finished the book Alex Rider: Point Blank, it was about a spy Alex who was sent to a mission to find out what was happening to kids who were being kidnapped. He goes to the mountain where the kids are being captive and it turns out that it is a school. There are seven kids that all look alike but he doesn't realize until he warns them and the kids don't care. The professor who teaches them gets Alex and ties him on the table. He tells Alex that they are clones of him, but all have the same intelligence as him so they will become the smartest people in the world. He also made a clone of Alex saying they will all dissect Alex and replace him with the clone so no one will suspect of anything. He tells Alex how he wants revenge for all of the people that hurt him and killed him because he shows that he is a clone made by the real him. The CIA help Alex escape and Alex destroys all the clones but leaves the clone of him because he thought he destroyed it too. The clone tells Alex as Alex leaves that he can never die and will kill him when he has the chance to do it.

Alex is still a child, but no one knows that. They think of him as a adult who can handle everything. He has done what no man has ever done: save the world two times. He is very rich and his whole family is about spies, one of the best spies ever. Alex has the strength of an adult, the mobility of an adult, but not the mind of an adult where they can handle it. He has missed a lot of school which means he is losing his friends and he is being lonely and scared every time he is in a mission. He can't do what a 14 year old kid can do. Play video games, be with his friends or even go to school because he is in bad condition for all of these missions he is in.

On the one hand, Alex can be famous and be the best hero of the world, or on the other hand Alex can die, lose his all of his friends and no one would know who he was or what he did. Alex wants to be someone, but he knows know one will know who he did if he stays with M16. He is someone when he is with his friends. He is Alex Rider, an ordinary boy who has good friends. He knows the risks of the army and doesn't want to end up as his family dying without saying a last "goodbye." Alex doesn't know what to do.