The Patriot, is novel by Steven Molstad based on the screenplay by Robert Rodat. The book takes place during the beginning and end of the American Revolution. Benjamin Martin, a patriot and a single parent has to take care and protect his seven children from the war. The Americans fought the war for the cause and to protect their land and family. The British fought this war to show that they were the country to be feared. Nationalism drove these men to fight for their countries.
Benjamin Martin is a Patriot, but he has his fill of war. A veteran of the fierce French and Indian war, he has renounced fighting forever, retiring to his South Carolina farm to raise his motherless children in peace. The war effort eventually comes to the Carolina's and Martin does not want his eager 18-year-old son to join the war. Martin quotes, "Do you intend to enlist without my permission?" Martin knows how war can change a
person mentally. He knows how it can make a person view life more differently. Gabriel does not care. Ashamed that his father used his family as an excuse to not join the war he enlists.
This book had a lot of strong family morals as well as why the American Revolution was fought. Steven Molstad did an excellent job in writing this book. He seemed biased toward the British showing he is probably Caucasian and that he does not like the British. He showed that he was probably that he is a big family person since this book has a lot of family morals. This book showed us that Nationalism for our country can drive us to do anything.
Gabriel has a lot of pride for his American Country. He joins the war thinking it would be the way he thinks it would be. He does not know how cruel it is. Gabriel later rights to his brother Thomas to not join the war. At the time he joined he was filled with nationalism and m
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