Book Report on Silverfin

 

   This week I read a young James Bond book called Silverfin. In the beginning, James Bond enters a race called the Hellebore race. In the race you have to swim, shoot and run. The competition's sports were swimming, shooting and racing because Lord Hellebore's son was in the competition and those were his three best sports. During the races, George Hellebore took white pills. But at the end of the story, George doesn't win even after he cheats in the running race.

     On vaction, Bond goes away to his home in Scotland and coincidentally, so does George. Bond meets a boy called Red who snuck onto the trian to Scotland. Bond and Red go find the Hellebore castle to see what was there. While James snuck in the house he was captured and Lord Hellebore tells him that he is trying to make a perfect fighting human. The pills to make the perfect fighting human are the white ones George took. In the end, James escapes and Lord Hellebore is eaten by the killer eels who are really powerful because they ate the leftover pills. It seems that the main idea of this book is that if you cheat you might not get what you want.

    An example of not getting what you want when you cheat is when it was the race in the Hellebore competition, James saw George take short cuts to get in first. Still James kept to the road and caught up to George. George tried to trip James but James avoided it and George fell. In the end of the race, James got first and George got third place. He lost at his own race, even after cheating. This  shows that if you cheat you might not always get what you want.

    Another example of this is when Lord Hellebore is trying to make the perfect human and tries his pills on his brother but it doesn't work and his brother turned into a monster. Later, after James escapes from Lord Hellebore, Lord Hellebore was about to kill James right by the river for destroying his lab. Then his brother Algar comes in and tackles Lord Hellebore and they fall into the water. When they come back out they are covered in blood and the eels start to come to eat them. When they go under, there are a lot of eels around them and when they come out again they are covered in eels. Then they go under for the last time and the eels eat them. This again shows that if you cheat you might not always get what you want.

    All in all, Silverfin was a great book and showed me that if you cheat you might not always get what you want. It showed us this in the race when George got third after he cheated, and at the end of the book when Lord Hellebore was killed by his brother who he made a monster after he made him take the pills that make you a perfect killing machine. These two pieces of evidence demonstrate that if you cheat you might not get what you want.