Author's note:
This was my point of view piece. I did a 3rd person analysis of the main character of the book Black Hawk Down, Mike Durant.
Mike Durant goes through more fear and hopelessness in the
book Black Hawk Down, than most of us will in a lifetime. The morning of
that fatal day that he would endure a so much pain and fear, did not start out
in a bad way. It had just started out as a normal routine mission, protecting
the troops on the ground, but it soon would become much more than that.
During US engagements in Somalia, Capt. Mike Durant, was a
Army Black Hawk pilot. But on one fatal
day in October his “routine” mission would change his life forever. He would
almost loose his life. He loses his friends, and at some times his sanity.
He was tasked with flying a helicopter to provide cover for
their troops on the ground. When
suddenly his helicopter is hit with a rocket, and spins out of control, hurling
toward the ground. On the crash landing, Mike, and his co- pilot, are knocked
out. The two men in the back were not so lucky.
When Mike regains consciousness, he manages to free himself,
and his badly wounded friend. Mike soon realizes he had crashed right in the middle
of the war zone, and enemies are moving in out his position. He soon is aided
by two stray soldiers, but they are soon killed. Mike then is knocked un conscious.
He wakes up in a strange house on a bed, and realizes the
man who took him here is not an enemy, but someone who is also fighting against
the same enemies. Mike is free to go as soon as the military can extract him,
which is going to be a while.
Finally after a few weeks, Mike’s friends and soldiers are
finally able to extract him, and get him medical, treatment. Later Mike hears
of his co pilot’s death. He is not able to re-join the fight on account of his
broken ribs, arm , and, leg. Mike had overcome extreme adversary, and had a
perspective on the whole ordeal through his own eyes.
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