The Last Patriot Argumentative Analysis

Imagine a world where belligerent Islamic fundamentalists were trying to take away the lively hood of every Christian American. Even worse than that, trying to seize the world into becoming an Islamic terrorist who would die if they went against the Islamic faith. In The Last Patriot, Scot Harvath and Tracy save Anthony Nichols from a car bombing and then from a shooting inside a hotel where the two of them are interrogating him. All three of them are on the hunt for the Don Quixote book to get the information they need to find the missing revelation of Muhammad from the Islamic book, the Koran. Finding this information will ultimately lead to the termination of Fundamentalist Islamic terrorists trying to take over the world with Islam. While
reading The Last Patriot, I connected with Scot Harvath in a variety of ways, I questioned why Abdul Waleed is so paranoid of the Americans finding the final revelation of the Koran, and I evaluated why Scot Harvath is so deathly afraid to meet up with the president, Jack Rutledge. First off, I questioned the reactions and responses of the argument between Abdul Waleed and Sheik Omar. One thing I questioned was why Abdul Waleed is so paranoid of the Americans finding the final revelation of Muhammad. This was odd because Abdul Waleed is usually a “tough man” and does not usually get paranoid that easily. It is strange that Abdul gets so anxious of the Americans finding the revelation: “If we are not absolutely careful, absolutely vigilant, the tide of political correctness will turn against us” (Thor 229). In this, Abdul is overestimating the Americans physical and mental ability to find and decode the final revelation. Which if they do, fundamentalist Islam will be almost if not totally terminated because of it. The reader can understand the feelings and emotions running through Abdul Waleed’s head at the moment, but Islam is becoming so overpowering that he should not have to be dour about anything. Even if the Americans find the final revelation, fundamentalist Islam will never be totally terminated out of the world. One could say that Abdul is being as paranoid as a soldier in the middle of a bloody battle (Figurative Language). Explaining why Abdul Waleed was so paranoid of the Americans finding the revelation was one thing I questioned while reading. Next, I felt like I connected with Scot Harvath in a variety of different ways in the novel. One of the ways I felt I connected with Harvath is that we both are “hands on learners.” This means that we both prefer to work and learn new things with our hands rather than visually. One activity we have in common is that we both love to scrutinize puzzles and mysteries: “My father and I even made a couple of our own together” (Thor 243). From this, one can see that Harvath loved to create his very own puzzle boxes when he was a kid and even now. I act in similar ways except I never created my own puzzle, but I do analyze the puzzle and figure it out in a “hands on” sort of way. Though I am much less sophisticated than Harvath, I still figure things out in a deep and analytical way such as when I am doing my schoolwork. Another thing that we both have in common is the ability to think “out of the box” when figuring out why something happens the way it does. In the novel, Scot Harvath has a destiny to figure out why the fundamentalist Islamic terrorists are trying to destroy the American way of life. He does this even if he has to think deliberately or out of the box about it. Harvath is a sneaking wolf when it comes to figuring out a mystery about the Islamic world (Figurative Language). I am the same as Harvath in the sense that I think out of the box when making a tough decision in my life. I do this by thinking of the possible outcomes of my decision and decide if it is the right or wrong thing to do. Being a “hands on learner” and thinking “outside the box” is two ways I felt connected with Scot Harvath in the novel. Finally, I evaluated one of Scot Harvath’s fears in The Last Patriot.
The fear that I evaluated from Scot Harvath is that he is afraid to meet up with the president, Jack Rutledge. Scot Harvath had not seen Jack Rutledge in a long period of time: “He had not seen Jack Rutledge face-to-face since shortly after Tracy’s shooting and had no desire to see him now” (Thor 232). Scot Harvath is as afraid of seeing the president as a deer seeing a vicious wolf (Figurative Language). This implies that Harvath is afraid of what the president might do to him since he caused so much commotion in Paris. Adding on to that, he has not seen the president in so long that he does not know how he is going to react to putting the United States in danger of the fundamentalist Islamic terrorists. Therefore, Scot wants to avoid seeing the president for as long as he can so he does not have to deal with the punishment. One can see that Scot Harvath is being both smart and cowardly because of his thoughts of avoiding the president. He is being smart because he knows if he goes to see the president, he might have to give up on trying to terminate the Islamic terrorists. On the other hand, he is being cowardly because the decision to not see the president could lead to the Islamic terrorists taking over the United States with Islam. Scot Harvath ultimately decides to talk to the president and it ends up being the right decision. Explaining why Scot Harvath was so afraid to see the president and
coming up with a solution for it was one thing I evaluated while reading the novel. Throughout the novel, I questioned why Abdul Waleed was so paranoid of the Americans finding the missing revelation, I connected with Scot Harvath in some ways, and I evaluated why Harvath was so afraid to see the president.
The conflicts between characters in The Last Patriot were so action packed that I did not think of taking a break from the book. The plot within the novel was so well organized that I felt a part of the book while reading. I also felt that the suspense and the “cliff-hangers” in the novel were executed
fantastically.