In A Navy Man By Wasdin Essay
Wasdin often refers back to his childhood in the book and how it’s helped him progress in the Navy as a SEAL. As a child raised in a Christian home he grew up surrounded with basic moral principles. One instance is when he had defended his little sister without a second thought; Wasdin uses hyperbole to describe his feeling in that moment, “I went through the roof. Now I was seeing bull red. Possessed”(Wasdin 34). Literally, this makes no sense and that is what makes is hyperbole, and is using this Wasdin created and set a tone for the rest of the scene. He rushed to defend his little sister from someone who had hurt her, his morals were in check, he knew what had been done was wrong and he felt that he fixed it by hurting the predator of
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Some of the themes intertwine with each other and can have separate interpretations with different circumstances. A part in the book the SEALs had a bar fight and it was one of them that began the physical violence, yet they all jumped in. Using figurative language Wasdin discusses it, “The four of us left the four Tunisians in a pile...we catapulted him over the bar”(Wasdin 93). The expressions are nothing to be taken literally, they simply finished fight the other men and they had thrown the man over the bar; The SEALs never actually acquired a catapult. All of the men began fighting with no reason other than that their friend did, displaying the strong bond of brotherhood they all share. Sharing that connection with the others is not always with a select group but a feeling that can be created. During different training sessions and school Wasdin was put into groups with multiple other people that he was forced to entrust others. One example was during his time spent during hell week was brotherhood was abandoned,”I had begged one of them not to ring out but he abandoned Mike and me to carry the boat by ourselves. Could have at least waited to quit until after we got that boat back to the barracks”(Wasdin 76), Wasdin uses a flashback to remind readers of why he was upset. He was left alone, the theme of brotherhood was non-existent at the
Some of the themes intertwine with each other and can have separate interpretations with different circumstances. A part in the book the SEALs had a bar fight and it was one of them that began the physical violence, yet they all jumped in. Using figurative language Wasdin discusses it, “The four of us left the four Tunisians in a pile...we catapulted him over the bar”(Wasdin 93). The expressions are nothing to be taken literally, they simply finished fight the other men and they had thrown the man over the bar; The SEALs never actually acquired a catapult. All of the men began fighting with no reason other than that their friend did, displaying the strong bond of brotherhood they all share. Sharing that connection with the others is not always with a select group but a feeling that can be created. During different training sessions and school Wasdin was put into groups with multiple other people that he was forced to entrust others. One example was during his time spent during hell week was brotherhood was abandoned,”I had begged one of them not to ring out but he abandoned Mike and me to carry the boat by ourselves. Could have at least waited to quit until after we got that boat back to the barracks”(Wasdin 76), Wasdin uses a flashback to remind readers of why he was upset. He was left alone, the theme of brotherhood was non-existent at the