The most ferocious fighting force in the world, the United States Navy SEALs are “never out of the fight” (Luttrell 18). Marcus Luttrell, former Navy SEAL, describes his fight for his and his buddies’ lives in his eyewitness account of Operation Redwing in Lone Survivor. This heroic narrative, meant for those interested in the cold-hearted truths of war and a testament to survival, expose just that. Luttrell includes the last words he ever heard from his friends and other details of death to get to his main subject. The only man capable of sharing such a story, the one who endured it all, does to great effect. With no main subject other than life or death, Luttrell illustrates the realities of war. First off, Luttrell establishes himself as a profound Navy SEAL describing the man-breaking training he endured to become a member of the U.S. Special Forces. If the reader really has to question the authenticity of the author, then don’t even start reading the book. Luttrell decided to write his account of what happened in 2005 in the Afghanistan Mountains, two years after he lost some of his best friends, in hopes that their legacy and story will never die with them. He says that “If I don’t write it (Lone Survivor), no one will ever understand the indomitable courage under fire of those three Americans. And that would be the biggest tragedy of all”
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In a moment of life and death, each second, detail, and action can determine the unforeseeable outcome. In the narrative Lone Survivor by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell each second, detail, and action turned out to end the lives of three, but barely save the lone survivor. Luttrell describes the series of events that changed his life by process analysis and cause and effect; each event he describes and then explains the outcome and how it affected the lives of his SEAL team. No man should have had to go through what Marcus and the three other heroes did, but they were trained to go through it so the everyday man did
In a moment of life and death, each second, detail, and action can determine the unforeseeable outcome. In the narrative Lone Survivor by Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell each second, detail, and action turned out to end the lives of three, but barely save the lone survivor. Luttrell describes the series of events that changed his life by process analysis and cause and effect; each event he describes and then explains the outcome and how it affected the lives of his SEAL team. No man should have had to go through what Marcus and the three other heroes did, but they were trained to go through it so the everyday man did