Lone Survivor Sparknotes

Lone Survivor is a book based on the encounters the Navy SEAL team 10 went through. It explains the difficulties Marcus Luttrell went through alone and with his teammates. The story takes place in the Hindu Kush Mountain in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. Marcus Luttrell, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matthew “Axe” Axelson are all specially trained Navy SEALs that were on the operation “Redwing”. The operation was where they had to either capture or kill a high ranking Taliban leader that was said to be close to Osama Bin Laden. The team was dropped off on the Hindu Kush Mountain on June 28, 2005. The team was moving down the mountain when they stumbled upon a group of goat herders. The team together had to decide to kill them or not. They knew it would be inhumane to kill them, so they released them. That was a big mistake. They were approached by a large group of Taliban fighters later that afternoon and were surrounded by the left, right, and forward. The Taliban fighters began opening fire on them, they had no aim, but since there were …show more content…
The theme is all about war. They are in a war throughout the whole book in flashbacks and in real life now. Another theme would be brotherhood. They are all one big brotherhood and will not leave a man behind even if they are getting shot at. They stick together till they are dead no matter what. It is shown by the way they care and treat each other. The irony in “Lone survivor” is the audience knew that everybody dies except Marcus. In the book, everybody knew what was going to happen to the other three men, but the three men didn’t so we knew more than what the characters did. Another irony is when they captured the goat herders and that’s how the whole fight began because they didn’t kill them. They were put into a situation where they had to do what was best and even though they chose the best option it still cost them their