What Is The Theme Of Saving Private Ryan

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Saving Private Ryan Critical Analysis

Saving Private Ryan is a story about a group of American soldiers during World War ll overcoming obstacles to accomplish a signal mission. One of the biggest obstacles they had to face was keeping everyone focused on the mission at hand. I think the book did an excellent job at making that obstacle clear to the audience.
Saving Private ryan is a story of a small group of American soldiers on a mission to find and bring home a soldier named James Francis Ryan. Throughout the mission the group questions why this man's life is more important than theres, which pulls the group apart making things more difficult. John H Miller which was the captain of the group struggled to keep everyone focused. The group overcome defying odds with waves and waves of german soldiers in
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The end of the book really stayed true to the author's main points with the ending battle scene the whole squad sacrificed everything to hold the bridge from the German pluton which also took a lot of bravery. I also think the author did a good job in saying farewell to all the characters that did not make it to the end of the story each character died doing something that really changed the whole story and affected the group majorly.

I think the author did a very good job at keeping things as real as possible and accurate. You can really tell that the author knows what he's talking about and you can tell that the author has a certain passion for this time in history by how much detail and descriptive words he uses in this book.
All in all Saving Private Ryan is a book about a group of soldiers during World War ll overcoming many obstacles to fulfill a signal goal. This book is fantastic with all the action heart felt moments and how accurate it really is with history. I would recommend this book to

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