Scorpia

I am currently reading a book Scorpia by Anthony Horowitz. The plot shows a typical protagonist – antagonist conflict, which leads to a change of the main, positive character, Alex Rider, into bad. His father is killed by an assassin and now he wants to kill his father's murderer.  To do this, he joins a worldwide terrorist group Scorpia. Ms. Rothman, who is the head of the Scorpia organization, told Alex false information about his father’s killer. That information changes him dramatically. From an innocent, smart and the non-violent boy he was, he became an angry enemy, who wants bloody revenge on the person who killed his father. The thing is that Alex never met and basically didn't know his father. It surprises me how a boy like him could change so quickly by one piece of false information. How deep are the feelings of the revenge or there is something else behind. Looking for his father’s killer, I think he wants to learn more about his father. To make sure Scorpia could trust him he behaves like he doesn't care who his father was but only about his vendetta.  At first you do not know the truth. Personal grief blinds and makes people obsessed with their mission. Is Alex going to become a gruesome terrorist? Although it is possible, I think he is just trying to find more about his father. Finding who he was may help Alex to find who he wants to be. The conflict between Alex and Scorpia, or between Alex and Ms. Rothman is at the end a conflict between justice and injustice, between good and evil. That conflict has to be resolved first in Alex’s heart. Finding revenge should not be done against the law. Braking law, even in a “good case” is a crime. I hope Alex will stay on the right side.