Finding Hope In Mark Owen's No Easy Day

There are many themes Mark Owen portrayed throughout the book “No Easy Day”. However its is the idea of finding hope in a hopeless place that truly interested me. Throughout the book we can see Owen constantly falling in hard times, but he is able to find any sign of hope to push forward. Even early on in the book, Owen must go through months of training in order to become a member of the SEAL team. However these intensive training and difficult tasks seemed to get harder and harder every day. There were many times when Owen felt hopeless and thought that he might not make it for the day, but he always thought about lunch. For Owen lunch and food was a sign of hope. Keeping that in mind he would constantly move forward. Anytime he felt hopeless because of all the training and sour body, he would think of lunch and how blessfull the food will be that day. …show more content…
Another example of this can be seen when the helicopter that Owen was in crashed right was they were about to infiltrate Oussama Ben Laden’s house. This left the whole team, including Owen in a very hopeless place. They all felt as if they failed the mission before it had even begun. Even though the helicopter was a major setback, the team needed to look for hope in order to push forward. For them, hope was having the chance to kill Oussama Ben Laden and take justice for what was done to America. If they had simply given up and allowed hopelessness to swallow them whole, then Oussama should have continued to wreak havoc. It was important for them to keep hope in mind and allow this small light to grow in the