Christopher Scott Kyle ‘American Sniper’ was an all American hero to so many people. Born on April 08, 1974, in Odessa, Texas to Deby Lynn and Wayne Kenneth Kyle(Burling #15). Joining the Navy in 1999 would soon set Chris on his path of destiny. Chris married his wife Taya Kyle in the mountains of Nevada in 2002.(biography.com) Chris soon returned to his duties after his wedding, by shipping out to Kuwait in 2002.(biography.com) By the end of his military career Chris had at least 160 confirmed kills by the Pentagon’s count.(biography.com However, by Chris’s own count—and the accounts of his Navy SEAL teammates—the number was closer to twice that amount.(Biography.com) In Chris’s four tours of duty in Iraq, Kyle earned two Silver Stars and
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Carlos had always regarded himself last, and placed his family, his brother and sister Marines, and his country first. Carlos always reminded himself of what Captain Jim Land taught him. "A sniper's best defenses are cover and concealment and long-range accuracy. Most important, one shot, one kill." With that strategy, Carlos Hathcock became the most famous sniper in United States History. While the standard reward on a US sniper was eight dollars, the head of the White Feather, as the enemies knew him was about 30,000 dollars. Maybe that was because his mission always came first.
In “The Sniper” the conflict is man vs man, which means main character is tasked with killing his enemy, but it proves to be quite a challenge. Even though there were many challenges the sniper followed through with his job and persevered even after he was shot in the arm. Wanting to kill his enemy, stay alive, and be one step closer to ending the war was his main goals. Being brave, he took off his hat, placed it on his gun, and raised it above the edge of the roof. Instantly the enemy shot at it and the sniper, pretending to be dead, waited until the enemy got up for him to shoot him. He did some quick thinking and, with determination, handled the conflict quite well.
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American Sniper is the movie that I chose to analyze because it is full of moral and ethical decisions that have to be made. The movie starts off with a boy at school that has to go pull a bully off of his little brother and he ends up beating the bully up so bad that blood is all over his face. The boys name is Chris Kyle. The film then skips forward to when he is in his twenties and is riding a bronco at the rodeo since that is his passion. He then decides to join the Navy and become a SEAL after he feels like his purpose was to serve his country. He gets deployed to Iraq and the mental part is hard on him especially when he has to shoot a women and a kid when he sees them trying to throw a grenade at a group of Marines. He tries to help
...s was at peace. Chris McCandless died happy and at peace with life because of the all the sights he had seen, all the people he had met, and ultimately the goal he had wanted to achieve was at his fingertips. He did not make it out of the “Great Alaska,” but he died trying. He had survived one hundred plus days. He had walked all over America. He had met some amazing tramps along the way. He had caused heartbreak, but he helped thousands. I believe, based on the fact that he stated he would write a book upon his return, all he wanted to be a legend and have a legacy. He did just that. Chris has died over ten years ago, and here I am in the tenth grade learning about his eventful life. Chris ‘Alexander Supertramp’ McCandless had lived an eventful life in his twenty-four years of living than most do in their one hundred years of life. His legacy will live on forever.
In past history, heroes come in many different facets of life. The military has produced many of these heroes. Chris Kyle a United States Navy SEAL was one of those heroes. Chris grew up in various locations in Texas. His father worked for AT&T as a manager and they moved around frequently. Chris loved to fight as he stated “Somewhere along the way, I started sticking up for younger kids who were being picked on. I felt I had to look out for them. It became my duty. Maybe it began because I was looking for an excuse to fight without getting in trouble” (American Sniper, Chris Kyle, 21).
Rainsfords, Montresor, Walter Palmer, and The Sniper all killed. The Sniper was most justified killing his enemy. Three reasons why are because the brother shot first, he didn’t know it was his brother, he didn’t want to die he was already shot,it was a war. This could have happened to anyone. It was sad when that happened. This is why Why The Sniper is justified for killing his brother
The main character of “The Sniper” is the republican sniper and the main character of the “Cranes” is Songsam. In “The Sniper”, the sniper is in a war and he is trying to kill his enemy. At the beginning of the story, he is on a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge lay watching. Beside him lay his rifle and over his shoulders was slung pair of field glasses. He looked like he was a student. He was self disciplined but was extremely devoted towards the war. He was eating a sandwich because he eaten nothing since morning. He is going to smoke but he paused and thought whether he should or shouldn’t but he did. In the “Cranes”, Korean War is going on. During this war, many villages along the thirty-eighth parallel changed hands several times.
After watching the movie and then reading the book American Sniper I noticed a few different things. Comparing the two and thinking about the similarities and differences. There are not many differences from the movie American sniper and the book American Sniper except that the book talks about his childhood life more. The comparison between the two is interesting because Chris Kyle wrote one while other people directed the other.
The psychiatrist suggested that he try Shooting Therapy. This form of treatment allowed Chris Kyle to take others veterans out to the shooting range and help teach them how to shoot or help them to shoot his guns. Since Kyle has extensive experience as a sniper he had the skills to do this (Cooper et al., 2015). However, this exposes him and the veterans he is working with to a trigger of their traumatic experience. Hearing the gun being fired could trigger unwanted memories or experiences. Shoot Therapy is a type of prolonged exposure therapy that involved real life exposure to trauma-related cues (Sue, Sue, & Sue, 2016). In the movie, this seemed to be helping both Chris Kyle and the veterans who he was working with. However, on February 2, 2013 Chris Kyle was shot and killed by Eddie Routh, a veteran who he was trying to help via Shooting Therapy. While, this form of therapy could benefit many individuals it could also be harmful to others. Another type of treatment that could benefit individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder is trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT). This form of therapy works to change dysfunctional thinking that involve guilt and self-blame. This could have benefitted Chris Kyle since he experienced survivor’s guilt. The last form of treatment is eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). This is a nontraditional approach and it works on the individual visualizing the trauma while moving their eyes side to side and replacing the negative situation with positive cognitions (Sue, Sue, & Sue, 2016). This allows the intense negative emotions associated with the trauma to become detached and this can decrease
"There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful thananything that bleeds. Don 't wait until you break. - Laurell Hamilton" This is oftentimes the sentiment felt by soldiers who have served in active duty and have been witnesses to tragedies that leave them emotionally scarred. The Clint Eastwood directed film, American Sniper is amovie that features the real life tragedy of American soldier, Chris Kyle, who served in theUnited States military as a Navy Seal, which is an elite group (Kenny, 2014 and Treitschke,2015). His story is unique in that he himself suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder(PTSD), but as he worked to recover, he valiantly served again by helping fellow soldiers withPTSD ("Chris Kyle," 2013), and was senselessly gunned
One of Chris Kyle’s many heroic abilities is his courageousness. It’s one of his many attributes because he had strength in the fear of pain and death. For example from the article “American Sniper: Was Chris Kyle really a hero” by BBC News it states that “Unsurpassed courage under fire while conducting sniper operations in support of [redacted] during the siege of Fallujah. His display of unparalleled
Novelist and short story writer, Liam O’Flaherty grew up in a village on the western coast of Ireland. He was a good student when he was young, and when he grew older, he enlisted in the British Army. Later, after enlisting in the army, he began to write stories while he was in the war. Many of Liam O’Flaherty’s short stories about war, have become very popular throughout the world. One of his greatest, most popular stories, “The Sniper” has some of O’Flaherty’s experiences of being in the war. The short story, “The Sniper”, was published in the London paper, The New Leader, on January 12, 1923. Liam O’Flaherty was a World War I veteran. He wrote most of his stories while in the war. The stories he wrote, became very popular after the
The Deadliest Sniper in America In American Sniper, 2015 Academy Award nominee for Best Picture, directed by Clint Eastwood, Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper), one of the most accomplished marksman in US history deals with the harsh reality of being a United States soldier. During his four tours in Iraq he earns the title of “Most Lethal Sniper in U.S history” collecting 255 unranked kills and 160 kills confirmed by the Department of Defense. Chris enters this war as a “SheepDog” not knowing the harsh reality of the brutal truth of war. This critically acclaimed biographical war drama will indefinitely live up to its potential, bring the clique depiction of war films into the light of expression. Gathering an amazing plot and harsh snap