Analytical Essay Of Russian Roulette
Analysis Essay of Russian Roulette
“Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go” (Horowitz 94). Russian Roulette is the tenth book of the series “Alex Rider”. It is a four-hundred pages adventurous novel written by Anthony Horowitz. The story begins with an assassin named Yassen Gregorovich getting instructions to kill Alex Rider. This particular case forces him to read back on his diary, retracting his own life before taking Alex’s. The rest of the story is Yassen’s personal diary, where he uses flashback to tell the story of his life. Yassen had lived in Estrov, a very small town in Russia. As a fourteen years old boy, he was forced to flee his home and family after a factory accident his parents worked at—which was secretly developing a biochemical weapon for the government. After the explosion, the Russian authorities proceeded and destroyed the village, in order to contain the outbreak. He escaped to Moscow, but was captured by Vladimir Sharkovsky because of Yassen burglarizing his house. He escaped when he was eighteen and joined Scorpia which is the world’s most dangerous …show more content…
This novel is an assassin’s diary from child to adult; he keeps his memory and his thoughts in his personal diary. If the story changed from first person to third person, we wouldn’t be able to understand what he really thinks, as the behavior of an assassin is way different from what he thinks. His partner once warned him: “Are you going to cry when you meet your next target? Are you going to tremble when you’re interviewed by police? If you can’t learn to hide your emotions, you might as well give up now” (Horowitz 293). He learned to keep his sentiments to himself and behave like a ruthless killer, so it is important that this story is told in first person
“Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go” (Horowitz 94). Russian Roulette is the tenth book of the series “Alex Rider”. It is a four-hundred pages adventurous novel written by Anthony Horowitz. The story begins with an assassin named Yassen Gregorovich getting instructions to kill Alex Rider. This particular case forces him to read back on his diary, retracting his own life before taking Alex’s. The rest of the story is Yassen’s personal diary, where he uses flashback to tell the story of his life. Yassen had lived in Estrov, a very small town in Russia. As a fourteen years old boy, he was forced to flee his home and family after a factory accident his parents worked at—which was secretly developing a biochemical weapon for the government. After the explosion, the Russian authorities proceeded and destroyed the village, in order to contain the outbreak. He escaped to Moscow, but was captured by Vladimir Sharkovsky because of Yassen burglarizing his house. He escaped when he was eighteen and joined Scorpia which is the world’s most dangerous …show more content…
This novel is an assassin’s diary from child to adult; he keeps his memory and his thoughts in his personal diary. If the story changed from first person to third person, we wouldn’t be able to understand what he really thinks, as the behavior of an assassin is way different from what he thinks. His partner once warned him: “Are you going to cry when you meet your next target? Are you going to tremble when you’re interviewed by police? If you can’t learn to hide your emotions, you might as well give up now” (Horowitz 293). He learned to keep his sentiments to himself and behave like a ruthless killer, so it is important that this story is told in first person