American Sniper Book Report

While on active duty, Chris served as a Navy Seal, in a special forces unit primarily as a Scout Sniper. Chris was a highly decorated special forces operator with top secret clearance, who served 4 combat deployment to Iraq and is credited as the deadliest sniper in American history, with 160 confirmed kills. His exposure to combat has come from fighting in some of the major battles of the war in Iraq, in where he experienced the loss of fellow service members

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.

Some say that Chris was an idiot for going out into the Alaskan wilderness unprepared and without any knowledge of nature. “Why would anyone intending to live off the land for a few months forget boy scout rule number one: Be prepared” (krakauer, 71). This was a complaint sent in by a Alaskan hunter, and there were many more that followed that. The people writing the negative comments all believed that Chris either wanted attention, was stupid, or went out on a suicide mission. However, Chris was none of those things, he wouldn’t have been able to survive 113 days off

operations as a US Navy Seal. Chris is the most lethal sniper in US. military history. With over 160

Chris kyle was one of the deadliest snipers in U.S. History and for good reason. Chris kyle was born on April 8th, 1974 in Texas on a ranch. From the start of his birth he was obsessed with the military and always wanted to grow up to be in the military(Chris Kyle) Him and his father at a young age loved to hunt deer and they were very close for life as they pretty much did everything as a family. In Chris’s life, family was always first and because of this, it impacted his whole entire future, as family was his number one concern and everything he did was either for them or with them(“Chris Kyle”). Kyle entered the U.S. Navy Seals in 1999 as a sniper and made good work with his career in the military as he had 4 deployments in Iraq. While

During his ten years of serving as a Navy SEAL, Chris Kyle killed 160 Iraqi insurgents as well as liberating Iraq from the clutches of Saddam Hussein. Chris stated, “It was my duty to shoot and I don’t regret it.”(American Sniper p. 3). He knew that every kill he made was for the right reason and that if he didn’t take out the terrorists, they would have killed the soldiers. Although during the war his relationship with his wife, Taya, was rocky, Chris came home in order to prioritize his family once again and rebuild a relationship with them.

His first personality trait is his independence. Chris has been independent for a long time, and even as a child. “‘Chris had natural talent,’ Walt continues, ‘but if you tried to coach him, polish his skill, to bring out that final ten percent, a wall went up. He resisted instruction of any kind” (Krakauer 111). This shows his independence by making him seem as if he does not need anyone coaching him or giving him advice when he just could do it himself and get it right eventually.

Chris Kyle was a sniper in the U.S. Military. He had the most kills of any U.S sniper with at least one hundred and sixty confirmed kills and many more that were not documented. He served from for ten years (1999-2009) and was deployed in Iraq a total of four times. Unfortunately, Kyle was murdered at a gun range in Texas three years ago. He received two Navy Cross Silver Star, five Bronze Stars, two Combat Action Medals, and many more that are not listed.

While working with Wayne, Chris would do the most disgusting, worst jobs, but he would never quit and he would finish them every time. This shows Chris’ transcendentalism because it shows his strong work ethic and determination to never quit. Moreover, Chris shows determination throughout the novel just being on his journey. It was not easy to hitchhike all over the U.S. and to Alaska. I’m sure there were a lot of times where he wanted to stop, but he was committed to living this lifestyle.

To begin, Chris Kyle is a U.S. Navy SEAL. He has a record for the most career sniper kills in the U.S. military history. Chris Kyle is a cowboy at heart. He lived in north-central Texas before he started his active duty as a Navy SEAL. The high school activities he was in at that time was rodeo.

Chris’s many adventures out into the wild and across America are what Chris is known for the most. Not a lot of people believe that Chris’s rubber tramp journey is necessary or even real. There are a lot of people second guessing Chis’s ideas, taking them as a phase that he will just pass like a milestone. Others believe that his self guided journey is a wonderful idea and has an important message. I think that

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

Chris, on the other hand, defies with open eyes the games and amusements of mankind with his rebellious dignity. For example, when Chris was in third grade he scored extremely high on a standard achievement test, which placed him in an accelerated program at school for gifted students. He despised being in the program mainly because it required additional homework and so he desperately fought his way out. Chris was different than most kids his age, he was complex and puzzling and looked at life differently.

The book Black Hawk Down was written by Mark Bowden. It was published on February 10, 1999. It is a nonfiction book. This is the story of a raid by elite American troops on a Somalian city along the eastern coast of Africa named, Mogadishu. The story took place on October 3, 1993. This was the first detailed account of the mission in Somalia.

Name of the Book: A Reacher novel:61 hours by Lee Child. This title is related to the book because the entire book is a countdown recollection of events that leads up to the climax, where Reacher and Plato, the protagonist and antagonist fight. It begins with 61 hours before the main fight.