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Plot Summary of Skeleton Key
"    Fourteen-year-old Alex Rider, from England, has been through a lot in his fourteen years. He has no family. He lives with Jack. His uncle died working with Military Intelligence. He has worked before with MI6-Military Intelligence.
    Alex now faces a desperate man named General Sarov who has lost his country and his son--and has a nuclear weapon, made out of uranium, and a serious grudge against the free world.


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Dipa Bhagwan, Resident Scholar



Review Analysis of Skeleton Key
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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 30%




Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story: - present (2000-2010)
Spying/Terrorism Thriller Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets: - preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Who's the terrorist enemy here? - commies!

Main Character
Gender - Male
Profession/status: - student
Age: - a teen
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How much violence does he/she use? - a little
Ethnicity/Race - British
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Genius (really!)
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - mastermind
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
Motive of antagonist - power
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK

Style
Part of a series? Yes
Person - mostly 1st
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths? - 3-4
Unusual forms of death - perforation--bullets
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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