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Lone Survivor Character Analysis

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One fact about Navy seals is that they are trained to survive you can put them in an hostile area with just a knife and a piece of rope and they will come back alive in full condition. In the movie “lone survivor”, a US navy seal known as Marcus Luttrell finds himself alone in the mountains of Afghanistan fighting for his life against the taliban group of terrorist. He must survive to return back home to his family and country. In the movie “The Hunger Games” twenty-four teenagers are drawn from a jar to represent their district to get supplies for their district because they are in poverty .If chosen you must have to go fight in an arena you must be the last one to win survival is key. A young teenager named Katniss Everdeen is chosen …show more content…

In the movie lone survivor four Navy seals go out on a recon mission to go gather intel on a village with taliban and suddenly everything turns south and a whole army of taliban find out they are there and get confronted by them and they are forced to fight in a gun battle against each other with no satellite to communicate with their base for reinforcements because they are stranded and highly out numbered one brave man named Michael Murphy says he will go to the top of the hill to get a signal. As he is getting the signal he is shot and killed on top of that hill. After Murphy is shot and killed the other two die from being shot there is one left. Marcus is left alone with no ammo and no water nor food he walks over twenty fives miles of walking he finally finds help at a village that has a signal and calls his base and gets picked up and goes home alive. Katniss everdeen has to compete in the hunger games to help out her family and district because they are in poverty. She survives in the hunger games by use her surrounds by using stone and wood she would combine those two things to use as a weapon, but that is not the only thing she used to survive. She also got sponsored by people that would send her care packages like little stuff she needed in order to survive, Katniss also teamed up with someone from her district named Peta to survive by helping each other and watching

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Lone Survivor is about Navy SEAL team leader Marcus Luttrell and his team’s battle, Operation Redwing, that lead to the largest loss of life in Navy SEAL history. It starts out with Luttrell and his team heading to Afghanistan on a secret mission to find and kill an al Qaeda leader. Luttrell’s team included: Daniel Healy, Matthew Axelson (Axe), Michael Murphy (Mikey), James Suh, and Shane Patton. In March of 2005, Luttrell and his team join SEAL team 10, with Eric Kristensen as the leader. Luttrell knows that team 10 is “top of the line”(Luttrell pg. 184) and that they will face difficult challenges.

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Lone Survivor received the number one national best selling book for 2014, being very recent the story was sought out by millions of people. Marcus Luttrell, a navy seal, was one of nineteen military combatants that survived a major fire fight in the mountains of Afghanistan on June 28th, 2005. Being rescued by a small pashtun village, Luttrell received protection against the vicious taliban for weeks until evacuated. The book encompasses more than just a significant battle story, yet rather thematic elements that are relatable to the everyday person. Even further being made into a movie, which was awarded the critics choice award for best action movie of 2017.

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What is courage? John Wayne said that “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” The word courageous does not accurately describe United States Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell. I have admired Marcus’ life for a number of years. His life and experiences help keep me motivated during challenging times.

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We can be certain about this as she boldly volunteered for the games, and used that boldness to ultimately survive. It’s not that she won the hunger games, but what she did and how she won that really provided the book with further meaning about her character, which equipped the book with actions of love, heroism, sadness, excitement, violence - essentially many mixed emotions that made the book intriguing and exhilarating. Boldness, loving, providing, strong-willed; all qualities of Katniss that were evident by her sacrifices and actions, which in turn allowed her to succeed in the

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The film I chose to review this week for journal six was Lone Survivor. The plot of the movie follows four Navy SEALs, Marcus Luttrell, Michael Murphy, Danny Dietz, and Matt Axelson, on a mission to kill a notorious Taliban leader, Ahmad Shah. The ultimate goal of the operation was to dispose of the target, Shah. Gathering intel on the enemy was imperative for a successful assignment, but provided complications for the men. In a particular scene, the team is spotted by an elderly man and a group of teenage boys herding goats.

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In the first installment of the Hunger Games series we are greeted to the character Katniss Everdeen. Katniss and her family reside in the lowly District 12, the coal mining district, where the felling of death and despair is a guarantee. After the death of her father in a coal mining accident Katniss must do whatever she must in order to ensure the survival of her family and herself. Directed by Gary Ross the film was both a critical and financial success.

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All the life that is within her is fighting to survive. She climbs a tree in hopes that it will provide the safety she is looking for. The people chasing her are called careers, they have trained all their lives to be in the games. One of the careers spots Katniss. They know that she can not stay there forever, so they camp out at the base of the tree.

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She is also friendly and has a strong bond with her childhood friend Gale. She comes from the poorest district in Panem. That’s the reason she’s mostly poorly dressed. She is courageous and looks after her mother and sister, and later the little tribute girl, Rue. Katniss is strong and can be tough, although she is at times shy.

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She has become the victor of the Seventy-fourth Hunger Games. If Katniss would not have persisted throughout the entirety of the Games, then she would have been killed off. This helps support the book's theme of survival because without perseverance, Katniss would not have made it that far in the Games. She would have not at all been able to go home to Prim. One needs perseverance to survive, which is why the character trait conveys the theme of the story.

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Katniss was desperate for food and was on the verge of giving up but still had an ounce of hope which paid off in the long run and now she knows that she can survive because of the events in her childhood that happened to give her hope and let her survive. When Katniss needed direction to not get killed by the District 2 girl she just trusted her instincts which almost got her killed but helped her live too. Imagine losing your hearing if you were a hunter, that would be devastating, but once more Katniss trusted and held on to the little hope she had to survive. The Hunger Games as a whole has a good amount of themes, but survival is one of the more important themes because even though humans in the modern age don’t use the same survival skills used in the Games humans still have to be able to survive the current world even if it means to sacrifice something else. Finally let me ask you again after reading all that Katniss had to go through, what can you survive if it meant life or

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She survived the mutant wasps and fire courtesy of the Gamemakers, and managed to win some fights with other tributes as well. All of these tests are leading her up to “The Big One.” This is the biggest test in a hero’s journey, what makes or breaks the person. All of the other tests were just preparing her to make sure that she is ready for this test. Katniss’s “Big One” happens when the only tributes left are her, Peeta, and Cato.

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