Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Green Hornet's Crash
When the Green Hornet crashes in the middle of the ocean during their search and rescue mission, Louie is trapped inside the plane and is quickly drowning. The author states, "He thought: This is death... Inexplicably, the wires were gone, as was the raft. He was floating inside the fuselage, which was bearing him toward the ocean floor, some seventeen hundred feet down" (Hillenbrand 120). I cannot imagine what Louie is going through at his point. He as seen hundred of people die around him during the war and now he believes it is his turn. It also says, "The air was gone from his lungs, and he was now gulping reflexively, swallowing salt water. He tasted blood, gasoline, and oil" (Hillenbrand 120). Even though I have never experienced the feeling of drowning or being in any sort of crash, I believe the combination of both probably caused Louie the worst pain he ever felt. He already passed out and has been unable to breath and how he is forced to sallow the salt water and fuel around him. This makes me wonder what the other ten men were going through as the plane crashed.
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The other men were probably experiencing the same feelings of fear and terror as Louie. When the Green Hornet first begins sinking, Louie recalls that "the men who'd been around him were gone" (Hillenbrand 125). The other members of the crew were also fighting for their lives. It must be extremely difficult to be in life-threatening situations that a person has never before experienced. During this time period, there was minimal training and little preparation for catastrophic events like the sinking of the Green Hornet. The Green Hornet was a poorly constructed plane. In addition to the poor state of the plane, the crew members flying it had never worked together before. Both of these factors are related to the crash of the plane and are most likely the cause. If the crew was given more time to work together and supplied with a better plane, the crash may not have occurred.
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