American Sniper: Comparing The Movie And The Book

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.
Chris Kyle is sent across seas to fight in Afghanistan. He makes decisions, and looks to have trouble making them. Making split second decisions, being in charge, and making life-threating decisions, whether to kill or possibly be killed. He has to make decisions on the spot for the safety of himself but also his crew, his squad, and his fellow navy seals. A different man other than Chris Kyle in the movie plays it, and he doesn’t go into his thoughts saying, “this is going to be difficult to do” or anything like that, in the movie you pretty much infer information based off facial expressions and screaming or cheering whether something is good or bad. Also, the movie seemed to be based off just types of action, fighting, and combat, where as the book went into other parts. The book went into things such as his training, dating life, and childhood.

In the book however it goes into extreme detail.

Chris talks about how difficult the job was. How harsh and brutal it was. He talks about how it morally scarred him for life, but he goes on to talk about he doesn’t regret it. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong. He specifically stated in the book in his own words that he was killing bad people. He protected his fellow seals. He was killing the enemy. They were bad people and cowards that

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children to be blown to bits to take out a few enemy soldiers. Or women shooting rocket launchers into a group of US soldiers.
He actually tells what was going through his mind. He thought about his child often, and thought of his own childhood. He thought the child was too good for him, too innocent and too pure. And he was out there killing other men. He thought of his wife and his life back at home. He wanted to keep in touch with his wife and let her know he was okay. He expressed his battle with the traumatic experiences though. Having night terrors, hallucinations. Thinking something bad is happening when he’s back home safe when nothing bad is actually happening.
Chris Kyle went through a traumatic experience in the book, the movie, and real life. One was told from his point of view, and the other just facts about him made into a movie. There were not that many differences, except that the book covered much more information about Chris Kyle’s life. But the movie was mainly focused on combat. The movie was more focused on the fact that he was a sniper and he had killed a bunch of people. The book was actually written by Chris Kyle so of course he had much more information to give.