The Sniper And His Brother's Relationship

In “The Sniper”, the main character is thrown into a revolutionary civil war. He’s pressed to make quick decisions off of his training and human instinct. The protagonist in “Ambush” is faced with the same issue, he’s in a bunker on watch waiting for something to happen. He’s trained to react when something does, but his humanly instinct tells him otherwise. Both characters soon make decisions they regret, but can’t take back. “I’ll watch him walk toward me, his shoulders slightly stooped, his head cocked to the side, and he’ll pass within a few yards of me and suddenly smile at some secret thought and then continue up the trail to where it bends back into the fog,” (“Ambush”) said by the protagonist, this clues the reader in on the fact that he regrets his decision of killing the innocent man who may have never harmed him. Albeit someone senior to him told him that it was right and completely justified, he still feels distraught and remorseful about what he had done. “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face,” (“The Sniper”) said

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.

The Sniper, written by Liam O’Flaherty, is a story about a Republican sniper in the Irish civil war in 1922. This story tells of a night spent on a roof looking for the enemy, the Free-Staters. In this short description of the nights events, the sniper kills 3 people; a soldier, an informer, and finally an enemy sniper on the roof across the road from him. In the end this enemy sniper turns out to be the republicans brother. This story shows the the specific characteristics a sniper must have to carry out their duty. A key moment in this text which influenced the sniper is the Civil war itself.

Another difference between these stories is the ending. In the Sniper the sniper finds out that he killed his brother. It is unexpected, so it is a surprise. In the story Cranes, Songsam releases his best friend Tokchae from being executed and leaves the audience happy and full of hope. The stories Cranes and The Sniper are alike and different in multiple ways. They both have a main character who has a personal relationship with an enemy, take place during a civil war, and teach you that killing someone is not the solution to a problem. They have different settings, moods, and endings. Although it may be hard to make the decision between killing your brother and escorting your best friend to death, the stories suggest that there is one clear answer. According to the ending of Cranes and The Sniper the correct decision to make in this situation is to put yourself in Songsam’s shoes and choose to escort your best friend to death.

“The American Sniper” by Chris Kyle is an account of the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle's kills (the previous American record was 109). Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Kyle presents the gripping and unforgettable accounts of

The story that I’m currently reading is called Shooter, and written by Walter Dean Jones. The page that I’m currently on is page 22. What’s happening in the story is Cameron Porter, and Richard Ewings, Richard Ewings is trying to figure what happened to a kid. The reason why Cameron is getting questioned is because a kid was found dead at Cameron’s high school. Ewings thinks that the killer could be Cameron. Finally right now where I’m at in the story is Ewing asking Cameron what he does in his life and what happens in his

Adversity is when people have to overcome a problem even though it might be hard for them to do. Overcoming a problem can make people stressed out or nervous that they are doing something wrong. Liam O’Flaherty made The Sniper from “The Sniper” face many hard times throughout the story. While The Sniper was protecting himself from danger, Richard Connell made Rainsford from “The Most Dangerous Game” run from his own game. The Sniper faced adversity by being in the military and making the decision to kill people who were after him. Rainsford faced a problem when a psycho man would not let him leave the island until he made it 3 days without getting hunted. People need to

***The protagonist of “The Sniper” made a bad decision due to his biggest flaw; his impulsivity, which eventually led to

The opening scene of the movie American Sniper, “which tells the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who shot his way to 160 confirmed kills in Iraq,” (Buckley) starts out when Chris Kyle was just a child and him and his father are out in the forest shooting deer and him beating up a bully who was picking on his little brother at school. Later on into Kyle 's young adulthood he made a decision to quit being a cowboy rodeo star and instead enlist with the Navy SEALS in 1998. During this time Kyle meets his future wife. Then, once after the trauma of 9/11, the war in Iraq puts Kyle to work as a sharpshooter, and the film shows his skills as frightening and strange. From this point, the arc of the film essentially follows Kyle across his missions as a sniper. An important element of the plot is his face-off with an enemy sniper Mustafa, A Syrian sniper who was a former Olympian rifleman, who Kyle does manage to take out near the end of the film. Kyle was shot and killed later on by a veteran who he was actually trying to help. Even though every Iraq citizen isn 't a terrorist, American Sniper should be known for its stereotypes against race because the invisible norm of the white dominant culture and the display of the male body, white males in particular. Also to add to that the movie is showing the masculine spectacle and its collapse by portraying Iraq and how all they want to do is kill Americans.

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

“this hitherto peaceful congregation of neighbors and old friends had suddenly endured a unique experience of distrusting each other; understandably they believe that the killer is among themselves”(Capote, 88).

In both stories there was potential regret. The potential regret in the stories are the same they both killed their brother, one more than the other. In the story, The Sniper, two brothers were in a sniping war, each for their specific cause. One brother tricked the other thinking he was sniping from one place even though he had his revolver out in a different spot. He shot with his revolver and killed his brother.

The Sniper was written by Liam O’Flaherty and The Scarlet Ibis was written by James Hurst. The Sniper was about a sniper on the Republican side going up against another sniper on the Free State side. The Scarlet Ibis was about an older brother trying to get his younger brother, who is crippled, to do things like a normal person. He would take his brother out by himself without his parents knowing and try to teach him how to do things. Both of the authors in the stories show War, Brotherhood, and Regret in the stories.

American Sniper is based on a book written by Chris Kyle that is a memoir, he talks about what had happen while he was stationed in Iraq, the people he lost, the things he had to go through. Chris Kyle, in the movie it begins with him and his little brother, we see that his father is the abusive type and Chris has always been one to measure up to his father's likings. When Chris’s job of a rodeo clown doesn't work he sees how america keeps having things happen so he decides to join the U.S Navy Seals. He meets his wife, and she sees how slowly but surely Chris starts losing himself in this job he says he does for her and everyone to be free. He sees terrible things happen while he's there, he shoots woman, kids, all to save his men when in the end he loses a lot of men that are his friends. He was so well known as a great sniper that the men in Iraq put a bounty on him and would identify him with his tattoos. He has two kids back at home that he rarely sees while he is making records in the military. After his last nine months, he decides he is done and wants to come back home. When

While the narrator regrets his actions he doesn’t really feel bad about them, though he feels he should. This is the real guilt that results in an intense self-hate that leads to narrator maiming and killing those close to him.