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Character Analysis Of American Assassin

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The book I read was American Assassin, by Vance Flynn. It has 435 pages in it. In this book, the main character is a strong, determined fighter who has had a tragedy occur in his life. I compared the personality and the events that the main character, Mitch Rapp, faced with the song Believer, by Imagine Dragons. The song is about someone who faces many challenges in his life, but uses it to develop strength, which is something that Mitch Rapp does in American Assassin. American Assassin is about a twenty- two year old college student named Mitch Rapp. Mitch had a normal life, he had a girlfriend that he’d “…dated all through high school and then headed off to Syracuse…”, a close family, a tight group of friends, had good grades and was …show more content…

Since, Rapp has done self-defense and has improved himself physically, he believes he can overcome any obstacle that’s thrown at him. “Yes, sir. My guess is once you step in the ring with a man you can probably figure out inside about twenty seconds if a guy has enough talent to make it through your selection process… I don’t want to waste your time, so I say we find out if I have the goods.” From the tragedy, he was able to believe that he was able to take on whomever. The death of Mary made him a believer of himself and all of the things he is capable of. “I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain”, this part of the chorus mean you can come that person and try to beat them down, but they are going to come back at you a lot stronger and harder. Mitch is like that with the people who killed his girlfriend. He joined the CIA, for the sole purpose of getting revenge on that person. “Or that the only way he could cope with the pain of losing the love of his life was to plot his revenge.” “Retribution is a punishment that is morally right and fully deserved.”. Both of those quotes show that Rapp wanted to get back at the terrorists who took Mary away from him. He thought that, that man deserved no mercy and he took everything away and so he had to get back at him. Also, the entire job description is to take revenge on those who are planning to do terrible things that could kill many people. Lastly, all throughout the chorus, the

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