Comparing The American Sniper And The Men At War

In The Things They Carried Mary Anne Bell is affected mentally because she is snuck into the men’s camp. When she arrives she is this clean and naive high school student. While she is there, she starts to learn how to do what the men do around the camp. Mary Anne is not the same girl she was when she arrived. She is sneaking off to go plan an ambush with the Greenies and she comes back from the ambush covered in dirt, and wearing a necklace of tongues. In “Soldiers Home” Krebs mother because when he returns from the war, Krebs feels like he can no longer connect with his mother. War affects people

One character is obviously the comic relief, another the beloved hero. The rest, valiant men fighting for their country, their lives, their freedom. The scene ends and the curtain rises, all of the pseudo soldiers take a bow and go home to their normal lives, far from the hands of death that grasp at the men forgotten in Vietnam, the real soldiers. They, who saw the hardships of war as more than just a script, beyond the glamorized versions that are seen by the American eyes. They saw the death and the tragedy, slowly becoming worn down into less of a human and more of a desensitized killing machine because that 's what war does. It permanently scars the soldiers, tearing away the feeling of loss and inappropriately replacing it with comedy, showing that war is destructive, stealing away an ounce of humanity with each bullet. As seen in The Things They Carried, written by Tim O 'Brien, the Vietnam War destroyed the minds of soldiers, causing them to lose their human emotions in an unglamorous setting, devaluing death as they lose their ability to appropriately handle situations.

The rambunctious behavior of the soldier’s triumphant victory is a strong message visually for the viewer. These soldiers struggle to find their identity and once the war ends, the identity they’ve build at war vanishes, (McCutcheon, 2007). As a result, they essentially lose a part of them selves, (McCutcheon, 2007). When they return home, many soldiers struggle with psychological issues that prevent them from resuming their once regular lives, (McCutcheon, 2007). The images of soldiers celebrating at the end of war give the viewer a taste of this problem. This also allows the viewer insight to the deeper issues surrounding an American soldier’s mental stability and mentality. Through this image, along with many others throughout the film, the viewer is able to dig deeper and truly analyze what they are seeing.

As per the instructions, the two movies reviewed for the essay were Hacksaw Ridge, directed by Mel Gibson, and Saving Private Ryan, directed by Steven Spielberg. These two movies share a relevance as both are military oriented and provide numerous examples on leadership lessons that are profound and noteworthy.

Based on character analysis, “The Sniper” and the “Horseman in the Sky” both clearly reveal a true question of humanity but do so in different ways. Carter Druse, a young wealthy Virginian, and a Republican sniper whose name remains yet unknown, have various similarities and differences in their ways of handling their conflicts. Similarly, both young snipers willing choose to fight in their own civil wars. Carter fighting in the American Civil War, and the sniper fighting in the Irish Republican Civil War. Along with both being snipers, the two are also faced with the same horrifying conflict… killing a family member. Carter Druse, fighting for the Union, is ultimately faced with an unimaginable decision to kill his father, a Confederate soldier.

“Wars never hurt anybody except for the people who died” -Salvador Dali, leader of the Surrealist Movement. In both stories men who are at war are described, both of these men have killed a man who are known as their foes. Both of the men realize that the man they killed could've been a friend, and were someone who really wasn't the enemy. The relationship between these two stories is that war can tear families apart. In Liam O'Flaherty's “The Sniper” and “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy both show similarities and differences in plot, irony, and theme.

War can destroy a man both in body and mind for the rest of his life. In “The Sniper,” Liam O’Flaherty suggests the horror of war not only by presenting its physical dangers, but also by showing its psychological effects. We are left to wonder which has the longer lasting effect—the visible physical scars or the ones on the inside?

The text, ‘The Things They Carried', is an excellent example which reveals how individuals are changed for the worse through their first hand experience of war. Following the lives of the men both during and after the war in a series of short stories, the impact of the war is accurately portrayed, and provides a rare insight into the guilt stricken minds of soldiers. ‘The Things They Carried' shows the impact of the war in its many forms: the suicide of an ex-soldier upon his return home; the lessening sanity of a medic as the constant death surrounds him; the trauma and guilt of all the soldiers after seeing their friends die, and feeling as if they could have saved them; and the deaths of the soldiers, the most negative impact a war

The term “sniper” means someone who shoots from a hiding place at a long range with extreme accuracy. It is said that it takes the average sniper only 1.3 bullets to kill his target. In the military the sniper has two jobs. The first job is to deliver long range fire on selected targets. The second job is is to collect and report information about the battlefield. Snipers have been used in the united states military as far back as the American Civil War, but they were called sharpshooters then. From then to now both their techniques and technology have changed together.

Growing up, many young boys idolized the war heroes in movies such as Saving Private Ryan and American Sniper. However, the glorified heroism that is depicted in these films is far from the reality that is war. A more realistic rendition of war is seen in Tim O’Brien’s short story, The Things They Carried. Throughout the story, O’Brien uses metafictional characters to portray the physical and emotional burdens carried by American soldiers who were forced to conform to societal expectations upon being drafted for the Vietnam War. The literary elements O’Brien uses throughout the story to convey this theme are symbolism, imagery, tone, and inner conflict of the protagonist.

Both boys in the writing go through the same changes in mentality. Before they enlist, they assume that war was this great thing, and they both want to be a part of it and fight for the nation they both love and live in. What they fail to realize is that they are both too innocent for something as brutal, and devastating as this. They are both affected by this when they figure out what combat is really like. The two have their own way of adjusting to their new lives, but in the end the two emerge as mature soldiers, and courageous young

Though just because it's about war or war photography doesn't mean it's all action, it can be like American sniper where producer Bradley Cooper says, "It's really a character study more than a war movie,” In the end, I am not against having action in the film and understand why people would want action as a big focus when adapting this memoir, but think people should think about the positive and negative points in this, just as well for those in character

Men, it is what they need “Here’s your chance, it’s men we want.” This is the title of a propaganda poster that is implying that only men can fight because they are strong and fearless fighters. Posters like these are the ones that make men feel like they are put in a box because people have high expectations of them. During World War One men went into war expecting an easy war that allowed them to be heroes because they fought for their country. World War One is filled of vulnerable moments that made men lose touch of their masculinity. War is a place where they are pressured into fulfilling their role as a man by putting their life on the line to defend their nation. These soldier defended their nations with their all even when they were attacked with gas that ripped the air from their lungs. Poisoned gas made soldiers reconsider their sense of what it meant to “be a man.”

In addition, the men in the story remind me our country. We left our home too because the war.

As men battle against men on the field, their breath heavy, their bodies torn, their love for their country strong, they face the many grim and grotesque features of war. Watching their fellow companions, some friends, others family, expire before their eyes, realizing that they, too, could meet the same fate, wishing to return home to their wives and kids where they would be safe, men change in war. Young soldiers, naively entering battle yearning for exhilarating action and hoping to become the next epic hero, soon realize that war is vastly different from their fantasies. Battle hardens soldiers. Boys mature into men.