In modern warfare a sniper’s role is critical for gathering intelligence, and providing protection for the other ground units in the area of operation. Their goal is explicit, to undetectably infiltrate an enemy’s position in order to effectively engage targets to reduce the enemy’s fighting capabilities under their creed “one shot, one kill”. American Sniper is written by Chris Kyle, and is an account of his four tours in the Iraq War as a Navy SEAL while earning his spot in history as the most lethal sniper in the United States military. During Kyle’s tours in Fallujah, Ramadi, and Sadr city he recorded over 160 confirmed kills. Kyle’s autobiography covers not only daily life on the war front, but the personal and family struggles at …show more content…
After the incident Kyle pursues being a ranch manager by studying in school and working as a ranch hand to gain experience. While working on the ranch Kyle thinks about the direction of his life and decided to drop out of college, and return to his original plan of joining the military. On Kyle’s first attempt to join the Navy, he is rejected after a physical found the pins in his wrist from the rodeo accident. Deterred from the Navy, Kyle returns back to ranch life, but soon after resuming, he unexpectedly receives a call from the Navy recruiter willing to give him a chance at becoming a Navy SEAL. After completing the training for SEAL recruits Kyle is assigned to SEAL Team Three based out of California. While based in California Kyle meet his wife Taya, but shortly after their marriage Kyle is deployed for war. From this point the book turns tremendously intense as it follows Kyle’s operations in the war as a SEAL sniper. Throughout his tours of duty he is given the tasks of providing over watches for Marine’s clearing buildings and is required to engage any insurgents for numerous hours each day. While on the sniper over watches he experiences the evils of the insurgence first hand by killing multiple enemies in each shift. As his number of confirmed kills increased Kyle earns legendary status and the respect of many military
Chris Kyle is a 38 year-old, combat veteran, who served 10 years in the United States Navy. Chris is a Caucasian male, who presents with a moderate religious background. He ‘s currently married to his wife Taya, and has one son. Chris was born in Texas, in where he was raised by both of his parents along with his younger brother. His childhood can be described as a loving, nurturing environment with a secure attachment but also with a strict disciplinary component, in where early on Chris was taught the concept of being a Sheepdog, amongst sheep. This concept can be viewed as a precursor to the role he has adopted along his experience in the military. Chris’s highest level of education comes through a high school diploma, but is supplemented by the training and grooming he received as a special forces operator. Through this training, he was usually required to be in top physical shape and work with a good sense of executive functioning.
The story that this book tells is the personal story of the deployment of Nicholas Irving aka ‘The Reaper’ a Ranger sniper during a 100 day deployment to Afghanistan, during which this sniper has 33 confirmed kills. The author tells us of his feelings and his actions during the various encounters, and while he does not tell the story of each and every one of his kills, it shows stories of how the modern battlefield works in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.
U.S. Navy SEAL ,Chris Kyle was just the average die hard Texan. He aspired to become a cowboy, but it wasn’t working out in his favor. After seeing the horrors of terrorism on 9/11 he was ready to fight for his country and enlisted into the military. He goes on to fight in four tours and becomes the deadliest sniper in American history. After each tour, he felt that he had to go back. He had two goals that he couldn’t give up on; protecting his team and taking out the deadliest enemy sniper, Mustafa. Chris would not stop until he achieved his goals, when he finally did, he faced a new battle. He struggled with normal daily life, but even then he persevered and found a new passion to aid him. Throughout this film, Clint Eastwood portrays the theme of perseverance through the use of setting, camera angles, and the main character Chris Kyle.
Ryan Smithson was born in California, but then early in his life, his family moved to New York. The book starts off with him in high school talking about typical high school things like his job, girlfriend, and what it means to be “cool”. He continues by telling how September 11, 2001, was a normal day in school until the teachers all turned on the TVs in their classrooms. He saw the North tower of the World Trade Center on fire; he thought it had to be an accident and it was just a rogue plane. Then, he witnesses the second plane come and hit the South tower and realized it was an act of terrorism. That day changed him, he started thinking about joining the Army once he got old enough. “If I don’t do something, who will?” (Smithson, 16).
There are two types of people that fight in wars; those who consider their patriotic duty an honor and those who entered the war by force. In 1990, twenty years after returning from the Vietnam War, Tim O’Brien published The Things They Carried, a disturbing and remorseful collection of short stories that gives detailed, yet fictional, accounts of the horrific events that occurred during the war. Later in 2012, after his tour of duty, Chris Kyle released American Sniper, a humble and passionate memoir that describes what Kyle had to face during his tour. While The Things They Carried utilizes symbolism and similes to inform the reader about the horrors of war, American Sniper uses flashbacks and imagery to demonstrate that some people “come alive” during the war.
This overly cautious boy somehow finds himself rushing into the battlefront, where Alison was being dragged without any plan of action or resolve: “What was he doing…” (79). We notice here that Kyle doesn’t even realize what he is doing as he incautiously rushes to the damsel in distress. This is quite un-Kyle-like for he had not properly conducted solution in overcoming the problem. Quite a change from the beginning of the story where Kyle would recognize the situation properly and come forth with proper procedures in order to confront it, like he did when he walked in the house with his shoes on and when he walked in the house with his dirty socks. Kyle changes from mentally rehearsing an event to bluntly rushing into action.
American Sniper by Chris Kyle, is one of the most accurate depictions of the life in special
He was never happy, he was always sad and down. Anytime someone handed him a drink he waited for them to walk away and he would dump it out. He never wanted to drink alcohol again. Kyle was reminded every so often of what he did. He received letters in the male from the girl’s father. The father would tell Kyle things. He wrote in one of his letters that his daughter loved pancakes and he hoped a killer like him never ate pancakes again. It was a constant reminder for Kyle. Even on the biggest day of his life he didn’t have his family there because it affected his relationship with them. His son said he couldn’t come to his wedding because he had to study finals. His dad was too sick and Kyle thought it would be too much to ask his brothers to come. “The whole wedding party was hers; he was like another guest” (Walter,
There are many ways of thinking of military snipers. They can be compared to predators in the wild, a skillful killing machine that kills out of necessity and has the respect of their companions. Snipers can also be thought of as prey. They are given a challenging task that requires skill to elude the enemy and often preys upon their mental toughness. In Boyden’s book Three Day Road the author uses many passages to compare the role of a sniper to the role of both predator and prey in the wilderness. These comparisons help the reader relate to the experiences of two indigenous boyhood friends, Elijah and Xavier as snipers in World War 1. Instead of shooting caribou back home in Canada as boys, they are now shooting German soldiers in the trenches
He went to Harrold Middles School. The funniest thing that ever happened to him in school was that he puked twice in the hallway. His least favorite thing about school is waking up in the mornings. Going to school and seeing his friends are the only thing that Kyle likes about school. His plans after graduation would be to attend two or three years at WCCC. Then he wants to move to Myrtle Beach to study Marine Bio at Coastal Carolina. Over the summer he went to Myrtle Beach for his birthday and went shark and stingray fishing. Ten years from now he plans on living in Myrtle Beach doing fishing charters for a living. Also wants to be married and have two
In the autobiography “American Sniper” by Chris Kyle, Chris is a violent and malicious figure in many different ways. The wicked motives of his actions are what particularly makes Chris a cruel being. Chris ended up recording over 160 confirmed kills during the Iraq War, in which he recorded the most amount of sniper kills in U.S history. However, the intent of his kills were far from humane. Chris stated during his BUD/S training that, “I wanted to be a SEAL in the worst way” (Kyle 20).
One of the biggest influences in Kyle’s early life was his father. Kyle’s father purchased him his first rifle at the age of eight, which they used to hunt
wasn't face- to- face, or maybe he really had some type of disorder or problem. Kyle has quite the reputation of believing in what he was doing was correct and only right way, Chris Kyle himself saying “I have a pretty strong sense of justice, it's all pretty much black and white, I don't see much of grey.” In the war in some sense he had the role of God. He got to choose who lived and who died, but he wasn’t just violent in war he was also violent towards harmless creatures in the past “I loved FFA and spent a lot of time grooming and showing cattle, even though dealing with animals could be frustrating, I would get pissed off at them and think I was the king of the world. When all else failed I was known to whack em over their huge, hard heads, to knock some sense into them. I broke my hand twice.” This explains Kyle to always have a cruel and brutal part about him, The film portrays him to be a “hero”, when I believe all the film is doing is glorifying him to be a hero. There is way too much evidence from the real Chris Kyle for me
The film American Sniper is a tribute to U.S Navy Seal Chief Chris Kyle, who in his time as a Sniper had confirmed over 150 kills becoming the greatest Sniper in U.S history. The storyline behind the film is that of Chris Kyle, who is sent to Iraq to protect fellow soldiers on the battlefield. Chris Kyle soon grows to be a legend with his pinpoint accuracy, which he uses to save countless lives of his fellow soldiers on the battlefield. The story of his accuracy soon spreads to the enemies who make him a target of insurgents who want to kill him Chris Kyle is sent to Iraq on four tours, and soon he finds that he cannot be able to adapt to his home environment because he has become too used to the battlefield. Chris Kyle has to make several tours to the war-torn Iraq from the United States, which makes it difficult for him to adjust to his family and social life.
The book portrays a sniper’s life as a mixture of terror and mind numbing boredom. Chris Kyle has the most confirmed kills of any U.S. military sniper (more than 150), two silver stars, and at least one confirmed bounty on his head. The book never glorifies what Chris Kyle did for a living, neither is it an explanation. The book instead gives readers a sense of what it is like to be a sniper, which lets us speculate as to whether we would have what it takes to become one.