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Scot Harvath
The United States is under attack by Al-Qaeda terrorists and they don’t know when the next major attack is going to be. All they can do is wait and let the unimaginable happen until Scot Harvath gets to the bottom of it. In the Foreign Influence, a bombing takes place on a bus full of art students and a hit-and-run occurs in Chicago and the CIA thinks that the two incidents are somehow affiliated with each other. The Terrorist group of Al-Qaeda is behind these two incidents and won’t stop until the U.S. is under their control. To put up with Al-Qaeda, the CIA puts Scot Harvath, along with some other CIA operatives, up to the task of investigating the crimes. Scot Harvath, being a benefactor to his country, refuses to give up the case until …show more content…
Throughout the novel, Scot Harvath and his fellow CIA operatives do most of their investigations during the night: “Harvath’s team put on their night vision goggles and when they all flashed him the thumbs-up, he signaled for the battering ram to come forward” (Thor 23). Since they do most of their investigations at night, night vision goggles are the key to the success when being able to see at night. Also, if none of them ever used night vision goggles, they wouldn’t be ready for ambushes or surprise attacks at night. Digging deeper into that, without night vision goggles; the CIA operatives would be as easy of a target as a gazelle in the middle of a field being stalked by a wolf (Figurative Language). Night vision goggles relate to the overall plot because wherever the operatives go, the night vision goggles go along with them. Night vision goggles are also essential when the operatives are in a building and the power goes off. This indicates that they always have the goggles close at hand just in case of an incident like that occurs. This implies that night vision goggles are on Scot Harvath’s number one list for things to have on an investigation. Overall, Night vision goggles is an important object in the novel because most of their crime fighting occurs at

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