Black Hawk Down

i am currently reading Black Hawk Down. the way this book was written it makes you really feel the tension and the fear of the stranded American soldiers. the author uses many different strategies to engage the reader in the book. one of these strategies is to use descriptive words and really describe the situation to the reader. the author does a great job of really telling you what is happening and who it's happening to. when i read the book, i can really understand what the soldiers are feeling because i know what the situation is. another strategy he uses to pull you in is to tell stories about each of the soldiers so that you get to know who the guys are and understand them better. when you know the soldiers personalities you can really get a grip on their feelings in different kinds of situations. one of the ways he really gets you to know the soldiers is to tell funny stories about their relationships with each other and their personalities as a whole. this is a very imortant aspect of his writing because you really like these stories and you want to read about them more. i find this a very effective method because everytime i find one of the stories in the book it's like a little surprise that i greatly enjoy. i really like this writing style and i think it would be really cool if all non-fiction books were written like this, but alas, they are not.

Black Hawk Down

i am currently reading Black Hawk Down. so far i have read up to the point in which all of the rangers are finding places to hide in for the night. as the sun is setting all of the men try to group in one general area to raise their chances of survival. several of the Americans have already been killed and many of them are injured. none of the Somalians are as good of fighters as them, but they have many more people. this book has made me really think about war and the consequences of it. these men are stuck in a city surrounded by people who are trying to kill them and that just sends shivers down my spine. the author of this book did a great job writing this book in a way that really makes me feel like i am sitting with the soldiers there. it also really makes me realize how much danger those men are in and how scary it is to be fighting down there. the author does a good job of making you soak up the emotions of the men fighting and how they feel when they kill somebody or when one of their friends gets shot. this book really makes me not want to join the army so that i don't have to go through all of the things that these men had to go through and the pain of killing another person.

Black Hawk Down

i have just started the book Black Hawk Down. from what i have heard it is supposed to be a very intense but scary book. i am looking forward to reading it because many of my family members have recommended it to me and said it is a great book. i am not very far into the book, but i am already hooked. the book is about the largest sustained firefight involving American troops since the end of the Vietnam War. so far in my reading the American troops were dropped into Mogadishu without incident and captured their main objectives. the main objectives of the American troops was to capture a warlords two top guys. the Americans were immediately surprised by the amount of gun fire coming from the Somalis when they landed. as they set up a perimeter around the target building, they noticed that there were thousands of Somalis all around them and that there were just more coming. the only thing wrong up to this point is that one of the newer American soldiers fell off of the rope when he was coming down from the helicopter. when he fell he suffered major injuries to his head and back. all of the other American troops have remained unharmed to this point. the commanders, who are watching back at their headquarters, think everything is going according to plan. they are watching on cameras and hoping that everything will go smoothly.

A Farewell to Arms

i just finished the book A Farewell to Arms and i thought it was an excellent book. i chose this book because my dad really enjoys reading Ernest Hemingway and he wanted me to read some books by him. previously, i had read The Old Man and The Sea and thought it was a great book. after i read that book i became very interested in Hemingway and wanted to read more from him. this is only the second book that i have read written by Hemingway, but i plan to read more books by him. i also chose to read this book because it was set during world war 1 and i am very interested that. i really liked how he wrote thee story in the first person because it made me feel much more involved in the story and made me feel like i had done those things. it was also very neat how he based the character on himself when he was young. in the story, the main character was an American who was an ambulance driver for the Italians in World War 1. the real Ernest Hemingway was also an ambulance driver for the Italians in World War 1. i really like how he did that because it makes the story much more realistic because it was written by somebody who has experienced those things. i would recommend this book because it is really well written and very entertaining.