Chapter 1 Of Bhd By Mark Bowden

Visual imagery, a memory technique that involves constructing mental images when learning new information in order to be able to better recall the information later. Mark Bowden gives visual imagery to make a reader understand what a soldiers see’s in the situation. First example, “They came as always, low and loud. Usually they came at night. You would Hear only the thrum of their rotors”(71 Bowden). From chapter 1 of BHD, the author uses visual imagery in this line. Mark Bowden gives a reader on how the helicopters came in where to a point it was silent for a reader to understand what it felt like when choppers had gone by the soldiers at a certain time of day. The author also gives good description on what soldiers see when they are on

In the Black Hawk Down act, the author gives flashbacks of soldiers backgrounds. “A good Christian is just a click away from heaven.”(86 Bowden). Busch tells his mother before he went into battle in Somalia that a soldier’s gun is either a click from death or from saving their own life, where the author gives a reader what soldiers usually go through when sent to battle. Mark Bowden gives more background of a character in a story, such as Durant. “He had grown up in Berlin, New Hampshire, with a reputation for being a cutup and an athlete”(89 Bowden). The quote represents the background of Durant, where the author gives good detail on his past since Durant was one of the pilots mentioned in the story. Durants background is given where the author describes his past. The significance of the quote is because he could’ve gone to another career in sports since he was an athlete, according to the author. Finally, Mark Bowden creates a flashback with the Rangers and the UN in the beginning of chapter 1 act Black Hawk Down. “Farah and the others in his clan had welcomed the UN intervention the previous December” (71 Bowden). The author gives a little flashback on Farah, where his clan had and discussed with the UN. Fortunately, the significance of this could’ve been the start of the Americans moving in Somalia, causing a conflict that most likely shown through a flashback in the