Chris Kyle: A True Hero

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.

Heroes cannot be simply defined in a few words; being a hero is not being perfect, it is holding some specific, heroic qualities that people can look up to. Especially in the case of Chris McCandless, one must understand that he was a real person, a person that possessed certain negative aspects of human nature; he is not a figure in a fictional piece of work that can be sculpted to the idea of a hero. Using this definition of a hero, Chris McCandless does in fact, embody the idea of a hero as someone to be admired to a certain extent; he is a figure that has shown noble qualities and strength through adversity.

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.

If you attempted to talk him out of something, he wouldn’t argue. He would just nod politely and then do exactly what he wanted” (Krakauer 182). Chris did exactly as Carine stated he would when someone tried to stop his trip to Alaska. Chris understood what the trip to Alaska would entail but decided to continue anyway. He was confident in his abilities and constantly felt the need to challenge those abilities. According to Jon Krakauer, “He had a need to test himself in ways, as he was fond of saying ‘that mattered’. He possessed grand- some would say grandiose- spiritual ambitions” (Krakauer 182). Although Chris’s ambition is surely admirable it also could be credited as his tragic flaw. Chris strived for perfection in everything he set his mind to. He refused to listen to individuals who were trying to help him when saying he was ill prepared; instead he ignored their efforts and went into the wild. Chris’s unpreparedness could later be identified as the cause of his death but in his mind, his supporters would like to believe, it did not matter. Chris died doing what he loved, living in isolation with nature being his only companion.

It shows the hardship of a Marine’s first time deployed, and thoroughly shows every aspect the struggle of the physical and mental rehabilitation. It showed how he began drinking and partying in Mexico as a way to cope with his newly developed unpleasant attitude and displeasing demeanor. When he returns to the US as an advocate against the war, it shows the difficulty the protestors endured and how difficult their mission was. When the film ends it shows how Kovic went full circle from desiring to be in the Marines and being a part of the war, to a drunken protestor dealing with his PTSD and how he turned everything around and became a straight-laced advocate against war for the Democratic Party, speaking at the Democratic National Convention (Stone & Kovic, 1989).

So if you compared the film to a documentary or primary source you would notice that this movie is unintentionally biased over the other sources because it visually shows the events with strong emotional connections while a documentary only states facts and opinion’s without much emotion involved because emotion drives subjectivity it causes the viewer to favor one side over the other since allow you to empathize where the emotion is strongest. This movie also gives information but it does not tell where it got the information while a documentary does because it usually has experts of the discussing it and is shows the primary sources used in the documentary so you cannot take the movies information as fact even if it is

The person who I consider to be a hero is Chris Hadfield. He commanded the ISS between December 12th, 2012 and May 12, 2013. He pushes for many environmental restrictions in the Canadian and American governments. He is one of the reasons that I am very interested in space.

The film argues that President George W. Bush had close ties with the royal house of Saud of Saudi Arabia, which is why Bush tried to change public’s focus from the 9/11 attacks to the war in Iraq. In Moore’s opinion, Bush took the focus away from the real enemy and got Americans glued to their TV sets to watch innocent Iraqis getting killed by US

Looking film from a values perspective, there is probably Kyle merits an explaination from IBIS Corportaion. Kyle takes urgent measures to get his answers when the power of the corporation political power overlooked him. Nobody appreciated him, therefore Kyle thought the only way he could be heard is if he do wrong and take Lee Gates as a hostage. Kyle however did not intend to hurt anyone. He was desperate for an answer and was left with no choice. Furthermore, shouldn't something be said about the ethics that place Kyle in this circumstance in any case? Shouldn't something be said about genuineness? Shouldn't something be said about trustworthiness? At that point there is the Money Monster appear, doling out exhortation, not considering

Kyle struggles with making impulsive comments that can be seen as non-compliant, verbally aggressive, and/or challenge authority figures. When he is corrected for the inappropriate comments, he will at times continue to be argumentative.

People differ from each other as some people decide to live their lives safely, while others decide to live a more dangerous and risky life. Of course, there are major decisions that can turn the life of a person upside down. Chris Kyle was one of those people who decided to live an unsafe life as he chose to devote his life for the sake of his country. Kyle grew up in a small town in Texas with a dream of becoming a cowboy, but after that he realized that he wanted a different life, which is to be a sniper in the Elite U.S. navy SEALs in the Special Forces. He had been using a riffle with his dad since he was eight. In Iraq, the sniper, killed hundreds of people in order to defend his country from Iraqis, especially the warrior, whom Iraqis

Out of the small town of Eden, with no job, and no stress, and a beautiful woman on his arm. One, no less, who enjoyed his company, and it appeared he could make smile with just a word, a touch or a glance. The man felt almost as if inhabited a dream, and if he did, it was one he never wanted to wake from. Her laugh was magic to his ears, and as he'd commented on the dress, his face had beamed as he'd shaken his head. A good-looking woman who wanted to be with him, - with him, Kyle evans, the emotionally detached, damaged murder whose motto for the last few years had been, "don't get close", and appreciated what he had to offer. Who encouraged him, that he, indeed did have something to offer, and was worthy of her company, not just of being forever alone. He trusted Zai, completely and

I believe the argument the director is trying to make through his film is that violence is senseless, and we should take in consideration those who are willing to go into war knowing the risks, and the endings it can lead to. We should not only worry about the lives that can be taken during the war, but as well as the way

When a movie portraying soldiers is being directed the director has to be very accurate about how the soldiers in his/her movie are being displayed. Most of people's ideas and theories about soldiers are from movies, this is why directors need to be as accurate as possible when displaying soldiers to their audience. After studying and reviewing several other war and soldier related texts I have realised that the common person's idea and opinion of a soldier is formed by the many films and texts they have read about soldiers. The films and texts I have studied are: “A Giant Has Been Awakened” by Joe Pielmeier, “Hero Of War” by Rise Against, “Saving Private Ryan” by Steven Spielberg and “Terminator 2” by James

A lot about his film surprised me. To begin with, the film opened with a landscape of Iraq, which looked nothing like how I thought it would. THe images that I see of Iraq are of desserts or markets and while these things are in Iraq the roads and bridges look almost identical to those in the United States. Additionally, one of the parts of the film that interested me was how the Americans received training in order to make interactions easier