Envision a world where ISIS terrorists were attempting to disperse the United States of America inch by inch until it is under Muslim rule. Slowly attacking and destroying Americans who are trying to protect the U.S. as best as they can, but failing to be ready for ISIS’ surprise attacks on the U.S. In The Foreign Agent, a crew of CIA operatives and parts of congress, including Scot Harvath and president Porter, are trying to find dangerous ISIS leaders by the names of Sacha Baseyev and Mikhail Malevsky. Scot Harvath along with his fellow CIA operative’s think that Sacha Baseyev is behind the surprise attacks in Anbar, Iraq killing thirteen Americans and the bombing and killing of Secretary of Defense, Richard Devon. Harvath believes that the
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Sacha Baseyev was not always a major leader of the Muslim terrorist group of ISIS. His childhood started out to be a joyride of success (Figurative Language), but one day that changed. The day that Sacha’s life turned dark and terrible is when his loved ones, including his sister and parents, all died in an ISIS terrorist attack against his school. Sacha got saved and survived and told about the incident: “There was nothing lucky about having lived through what he had. It had broken him—like a watch that had been struck so hard, it had stopped at the moment of a terrible accident” (Thor 36). From this, one can see that what had happened to Sacha was a traumatic and life changing experience for him. His search for his true identity is important because without that traumatic experience, Sacha would most likely not be a major leader in ISIS. Also, the incident would later make him a devil of his past self (Figurative Language). It would later affect Baseyev greatly in one major way. It would affect him is by making him not only a major leader of ISIS, but also making him a disappointment to his entire family and friends. Following that, it would transform his life from a kind and polite child to a mean and ferocious ISIS leader. Sacha Baseyev’s search for identity is by far the most important search in The Foreign
Sacha Baseyev was not always a major leader of the Muslim terrorist group of ISIS. His childhood started out to be a joyride of success (Figurative Language), but one day that changed. The day that Sacha’s life turned dark and terrible is when his loved ones, including his sister and parents, all died in an ISIS terrorist attack against his school. Sacha got saved and survived and told about the incident: “There was nothing lucky about having lived through what he had. It had broken him—like a watch that had been struck so hard, it had stopped at the moment of a terrible accident” (Thor 36). From this, one can see that what had happened to Sacha was a traumatic and life changing experience for him. His search for his true identity is important because without that traumatic experience, Sacha would most likely not be a major leader in ISIS. Also, the incident would later make him a devil of his past self (Figurative Language). It would later affect Baseyev greatly in one major way. It would affect him is by making him not only a major leader of ISIS, but also making him a disappointment to his entire family and friends. Following that, it would transform his life from a kind and polite child to a mean and ferocious ISIS leader. Sacha Baseyev’s search for identity is by far the most important search in The Foreign