Lone survivor 2

After reading up to page 88 in the book Lone Survivor I have realized that the main character Marcus Luttrell is a very experienced fighter with the Navy SEALs.  Since he was a young boy he was working on the ranch and his dad taught him various skills, such as long range aim, swimming, underwater combat, combat, strength and other things.  Also Marcus and his brother Morgan went to this guy that trains people with brutal styles.  He had the group of guys run down the side of a highway with blocks attached to feet.  It was said that because of this Special Forces guy training Marcus and his brother Morgan and their dad training them that they were the best of the best, the cream of the pack, you could say they were the brightest bulb in the bunch.  Also because of their dad training it was said that Marcus could hit a flying can half mile away.  At this point in the book Marcus and his team have landed just outside Afghanistan and are preparing for another flight to another base for warfare and they are trying to gain Intel on the whereabouts of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters/ terrorists.

Lone survivor one

After reading up to page number fifty three in the book Lone Survivor by Marcus Luttrell I feel that this book is very interesting.  So far Marcus has to me about where he is located, Middle East, Precisely Afghanistan to be exact, what he is doing there, fighting the Middle Eastern, trying to gain Intel of the whereabouts Taliban fighters and al-Qaeda which by the way means the base. Also he has told me his listing in the army, a U.S. Navy SEAL and what his home life has been like.  Marcus grew up in the dry southern state of Texas living with his parents David and Holly Luttrell and along with his twin brother Morgan Luttrell.  Marcus was always called the baby of the family but he didn’t get why because his twin Morgan was only seven minutes older than he was.  Marcus and his family grew up on a ranch and his dad taught him some very valued survival skills, while his mom was raising horses to be the finest they could be.  She could take a horse that is sick or old and run down and turn it into a prime race or work horse.  People would say that they thought she was a horse whisperer or something.  The Luttrell family business had its ups and downs but had it peak in around the period of the oil peak, 1973-1985.  Marcus was the first of the sons to join the seals but Morgan still calls him the baby.  At this point in the book Marcus and his SEAL (sea air and land) Recon team was in a C-130 cargo plane heading towards Afghanistan, neutral airspace.  Marcus always felt sick flying over the hostile territory of hiding spots for Taliban and al-Qaeda, even though he was 9 miles above them he still felt sick to his stomach. At the point I am at the recon team just got into neutral airspace and are about to land at the military base.

The road

After I have read about 20 pages into the book The Road by Cormac McCarthy I feel that this book has a very dark, gloomy, distraught type of mood.  This is due to the words like ratty and desolate that are used throughout the book.  Also I feel the father wants to do everything that he can to protect his young son who has his whole life ahead of him.  I could say that I like and dislike the book for many or several reasons.  The reasons I like the book is because it has a sense of adventure, in the two people travelling to try and reach exile from this post apocalyptic world. Also, I feel it has I sense of suspense in the fact that you never know what could happen next and the father is carry around a pistol for defense.  Someone could come out of nowhere and attack them for their goods.  The reasons I don’t like this book is because it is very kind of dark and gloomy and it progresses very slowly or not at all.  I feel it gets repeated a lot what’s going on because the father and son and in an apocalyptic world and are scared and don’t know what to do. 

Thanksgivng football

Sunday November 30^th, it was the last day of thanksgiving break which by the way was a great relief from school and getting up early.  On this day at I don’t know around seven pm I was bored so I decided to watch the Vikings game.  I found out that they were playing the Chicago Bears, a rival NFC north division team.  This game was a very big game for the Vikings because the Bears and Vikings were tied for first place in the HFC north.  Whoever won this game would take the reigns as the outright leader of the NFC north division. The game started out very slow and then began to progress and the second quarter rolled around.  The Vikings defensive back got a penalty for a blow to the end after the play which resulted in the bears moving down to the ¾ yd line of the viks.  At this time the score 7 to 3 bears leading.  But the Vikings got a goal line stand and then on the very next play the Vikings starting quarterback connected with the receiver Bernard Berrian, who is an X Bear, and they tied the record for longest play from scrimmage.  This play, goal line stand and touchdown, sparked a fuse in the Vikings and brought us the a victory 34-17, and it was a big one.