Who Is The Antagonist In Alex Rider's Ark Angel

While most movies depict spies as 20-30 year olds who are super highly trained, this book’s protagonist is almost the exact opposite. Although it would never happen in real life, Alex Rider is a 14 year old teen who works for MI6, a British spy agency. In the previous books in the series, he has gone to a secret academy in the Alps, Cuba, and undercover with a terrorist group. Now, he goes to Russia to live with one of the richest men in the world. He later finds out that he has to foil an evil plot that the man has. In Ark Angel, Anthony Horowitz uses no symbolism and underwhelming antagonists, but does use exhilarating settings to create a story that has no real meaning but still manages to be strangely entertaining. Ark Angel was …show more content…
They would be introduced very early in the movie and everyone would know who the “bad guys” are in the movie. In Ark Angel, this is not the case. The antagonist in the book is nothing special. In fact, he does not make a good antagonist. In the beginning, a terrorist group is introduced. The reader is told about how bad and evil the group is. About ⅓-½ through the story, We find out that they are not even the bad guys. They are not even very important in the story. The actual antagonist is Nikolei Drevin, the rich man he stays with and the father of the boy he saved. "But even here(Nikolei Drevin’s House), Alex noticed the high walls and woodland surrounding the estate, and the closed-circuit television cameras rotating discretely between the trees." (Horowitz 102) This quote shows that he makes a bad antagonist. It describes “High walls” and “closed-circuit television cameras.” The way the story describes these things, it makes the reader imagine the place as a fortress or high security prison, but it is the antagonist’s house. The whole thing is a bit ironic, because the evil person’s house is pictured as a massive guarded