Alex rider is with Fiona one day riding horses. Fiona is riding a beautiful horse but gives Alex a smelly horse that attracts a lot of flies probably just to spite him. They ride for a good amount of time before they decided to go home. Fiona kind of forces Alex to go through the dark tunnel to get home despite the risk of getting hit by a train and because she claims its faster. As they were riding Fiona hits Alex's horse causing it to run forward almost causing Alex to fall of. Fiona thinks this is hilarious and is laughing as she begins to leave. Alex is waiting outside of the tunnel when he sees Fiona's horse run out without her on it. Fiona has fallen off of her horse in the tunnel and Alex returns to help her. It turns out that a cobweb hit her face causing her to fall off and hurt her leg. Alex reluctantly decides to help her even after all the things she has done to him. This made me think how can Alex help her after the horrible way she treated him. I have to admire him for that. He was able to put aside all the negative things and realize the right thing to do. This made Fiona have a change of heart and will probably now treat Alex with a little bit more respect.

Alex rider is forced to live with Sir David Friend, a millionaire supermarket owner. During his stay Alex must pretend to be an experiment for Sir David Friends job but outside of he must pretend to be his son. This has to be hard to manage for Alex, but probably the hardest thing Alex has to put up with is Sir David Friends daughter, Fiona. Fiona is about the same age as Alex but they both grew up in entirely different worlds. Alex grew up in the city of London and is often called out and made fun of for it while Fiona grew up in a rich house in the country. Of course with all that money she can have makes her spoiled and snooty. Fiona sees Alex as a burden and a waste of time in her house and wishes he was gone. One day she decided to go shooting with some of her friends and asks Alex to come just to make her father happy. During that time, Alex observes that Fiona and her friends are not very good at shooting and cannot make a clean kill. Alex is disgusted by this and decides to leave. while Alex is walking he finds himself lost in the woods. He doesn't know where to go then suddenly he hears a boom and realizes that Fiona and her friends are shooting at him. He begins to run and then finds a lake which he hides in to escape his pursuers. Despite being in a bad situation Alex was very brave and smart throughout the entire event. He was able to think and use his resources available to him. He jumped into the lake and was breathing through the shotgun barrel to hide from Fiona and her friends. When he found one of them vulnerable he jumped out and hit him with the butt of his gun. Alex asks him for the way out of the woods and throws the boys gun into the lake. I don't think that Alex could have handled that situation anymore perfectly than he did. He was able to remain calm, recognize his resources, and use his skills to hide from them. This is especially handy and a good quality for an MI6 secret agent. He is going to need all of these skills if he is going to be going on missions. I think the average person would scream or yell at them to stop or may even freeze up in this situation. Alan Blunt, the president of MI6 made the right decision in sending Alex to do this mission.

Alex Rider is the main character of the book "Point Blank" by Anthony Horowitz. He is a student that is secretly a member of MI6, a secret agency similar to the CIA. He goes through many challenges in this book. One of the most difficult challenges he must endure is having to change his entire personality and persona which was required for a mission. He was told that he was the only one who do it and that he would have to travel to France. He had to change families, his name, his clothes, his attitude and much more for one mission. Alex is usually very independent and daring but he had to do the exact opposite for this mission. This may have been exceptionally difficult because if he gets out of character in even the slightest of cases it could cause the mission to be a failure and may even cost him his life. Personally I would find this scary and frustrating. Imagine your every move and every sentence is being watched and monitored. Probably the most frustrating things of this mission and even Alex's entire life is not being able to tell anybody about his secret. He has to lie to everyone for the sake of the agency. Honestly I think I would either crack under the pressure or I might accidentally let secrets and classified information slip out of my mouth. Even though Alex did not expect this to be his life, I think he is handling this very maturely and is probably the best person for the job.

In the movie, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, we could tell that Li Mu Bai had a strong relationship with his master. We could see that he looked to his master as a father figure and maybe even family. It is clear that to be called someones master is a very high honor.
Li Mu Bai had a strong desire to teach Jen because he saw and understood that she had the potential to be a great swordsman. He saw that she had great skill with the Green Destiny but her skills had room for improvement. Li Mu Bai also said to Jen that he really wanted to have an apprentice or pupil to teach. I believe that Li Mu Bai saw that Jen could not be corrupted by Jade Fox and that her skills can continue to excel. We can see that Jen has surpassed her current master Jade Fox in ability and can still improve even more. In a personal note, I think having an apprentice is a way of having immortality. You teach your pupils your ways and motives and people recognize and know that the apprentices style and technique is yours. If this were true, an added bonus to this would be that Li Mu Bai would be ending Jade Fox's potential immortality if he could teach Jen. We could tell that Jen kind of wanted Li Mu Bai to teach her too. After he asks Jen if he could teach her about the ways of the Wudang style, we could see that she was thinking about it a little bit before she ran away. At the end of the movie, Jade Fox explains that the poison dart was meant for Jen, her own protegee, not for Li Mu Bai. If Li Mu Bai didn't get hit, he would have had the perfect opportunity to teach Jen.