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When you think of searching for something your mind would automatically go to looking for an object. But that’s not always true, for example searching for love, accomplishments, and new ideas could also be a search. In the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell, Marcus has some of these internal searches. So far in the book Marcus has successfully made it through BUD/s training and is now on a mission in the mountains of Afghanistan where they get in a conflict with an army. In this paper I am going to be explaining why I think that Marcus’s search for courage, trust, and survival are the most important to this book. In the book Marcus really has to dig deep to find his inner courage. Ever since joining the SEALs he has had the feeling of invincibility. Once they started the firefight in the mountains he quickly learned how fast things are able to go bad. Both his buddies and him are being injured and some killed up in the mountains. Can you imagine losing one of your best friends in your arms and having to find the courage to keep fighting? This would take more than the average person and lucky for …show more content…

Trust is like a rope (Simile) it can snap on you at anytime unless you take care of it. Trust can mean believing in someone or relying on someone. Marcus has to trust his three friends with his life. Everyday those men are assigned to keep one another alive to be brought home safe for there families. This type of trust is something that would be hard to find when you are being shot at by an army of people and there are only four of you. Most people would just run and hide leaving there friends behind. But Marcus finds that his friends will follow him to death as long as they were there protecting each other. This quote is saying that his buddies were always there until the end just to attempt to protect Marcus from this army. These men are ones that I definitely could lay my trust with, as Marcus did in this

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Lone Survivor is about Navy SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell and his team’s battle, Operation Redwing, that lead to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. It starts out with Luttrell and his team heading to Afghanistan on a secret mission to find and kill an al Qaeda leader. Luttrell’s team included: Daniel Healy, Matthew Axelson (Axe), Michael Murphy (Mikey), James Suh, and Shane Patton. In March of 2005, Luttrell and his team join SEAL team 10, with Eric Kristensen as the leader. Luttrell knows that team 10 is “top of the line”(Luttrell pg. 184) and that they will face difficult challenges.

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Within this beginning part, Marcus really captures the essence of Michael, Axe, and Daniel, the Seals who were apart of his team. I love this part of the book, because as he perfectly describes these fallen soldiers, it makes me feel as if I’m beginning to know them and become friends with them, and he makes a special connection in his writing with that. Then, they fly to Afghanistan to execute their mission of getting Ahmad Shah. Once they reach there, the Seal Team navigate their way through the tough terrain of the Afghanistan mountains to get a better position for them to look down on the Afghan village where Ahmad Shah was at. After hours of climbing, and persevering, they finally reached a good outlook of the village, only to lead them to danger.

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At first glance, one might believe that Marcus Luttrell’s purpose for writing this novel would be to tell the story about what happened, but it goes deeper than that. Luttrell wants to make others understand the honor that his brothers had, that the only reason he lives is to tell the story of the men who fell for him. Luttrell states, “...I’m writing this book because of my three buddies, Mikey, Danny, and Axe. If I don’t write it, no one else will” (7). With this, you can see that his purpose is personal; that he loves his brothers and he wants everyone to know the selfless sacrifice and courage they had that ultimately ended up saving his own life.

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