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Centrepoint Themes
Centrepoint is an adventure, mystery, romance, police procedural, revenge, supernatural, science fiction and espionage themed novel. The plot is mainly about the life of the main character, a young adult named Jonathan Pierce, and his management of Centrepoint Industries, the world's largest technology corporation, with its vast resources derived from other activities and influence in fields such as scientific research and development, real estate, mining and archaeology, private security, all being used to serve its true purpose, an independent espionage agency with its influence regarded as near "omnipresent" in the world. The "dilemma" of the story revolves around four main issues, John's management and maintaining control of Centrepoint, …show more content…
It is told in a 3rd person person perspective, but every scene in a chapter uses an Introduction Title that tells the location, time, and sometimes if it is a flashback, styling it similar to the modern genre of Television Shows. Stereotypical events, such as John's "spy" friends using only common made up names, such as Kara, and Brice, which adds to the mysterious and deceptive tone of the story. The signature specialty of the entire novel is basically about John, through the plot and its development, he is shown to be an "odd" and troubled character, even by his own standards, while debating about what Centrepoint Industries does, particularly the aspect of its morality, In his own words later on, he claims; "I'm like an alcoholic, except worse. You see, people have terrible lives, and as a result, they go drinking, or use drugs in order to cope with their pain, I on the other hand, use my entire life as a bottle of vodka, drowning myself in the very life I am tormented by, an alcoholic can eventually give up heavy drinking,resulting in losing an aspect, or part of himself, I on the other hand will lose everything, my entire life if I give up. Throughout the story, readers are left on the dual impression that John could be delusional and possibly insane due to his mysterious untold hinted trauma, and "hallucinations", and that Centrepoint is only used to

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