Commentary On Lone Survivor By Marcus Luttrell

The Life of a Navy Seal The life we live as Americans is one of freedom, and that would not be possible without the men overseas fighting for us. In Marcus Luttrell’s memoir, Lone Survivor, he describes his important and tragic mission that his Seal Team 10 unit went through. Marcus Luttrell went through more tragedy and horror than nearly any of us could imagine, just so we could live the great lives we have safely in America, but it did not come at the cost of nothing. Within this action packed memoir, Marcus loses his three best friends that were in his Seal Team to the Al Qaeda in the mountains of Afghanistan. This Seal Team was sent into the forsaken lands of Afghanistan with one mission in mind, to execute, and kill Ahmad Shah, who

Within this beginning part, Marcus really captures the essence of Michael, Axe, and Daniel, the Seals who were apart of his team. I love this part of the book, because as he perfectly describes these fallen soldiers, it makes me feel as if I’m beginning to know them and become friends with them, and he makes a special connection in his writing with that. Then, they fly to Afghanistan to execute their mission of getting Ahmad Shah. Once they reach there, the Seal Team navigate their way through the tough terrain of the Afghanistan mountains to get a better position for them to look down on the Afghan village where Ahmad Shah was at. After hours of climbing, and persevering, they finally reached a good outlook of the village, only to lead them to danger. The main conflict of the story is introduced here, when they run into three Afghan villagers who were herding their goats, and they knew that they were affiliated with Shah, but they did not know what to do with them. They were divided between killing them, tying them up and leaving them there, or to let them go, but eventually they came to the decision to let them go without any harm. I believe morally this was the correct decision, but this ultimately led to the deaths of Michael, Danny, and Axe, because as soon as they let them go, they went down to the village and got all the soldiers of Shah’s