American Sniper: Comparing The Movie And The Book

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After watching the movie and then reading the book American Sniper I noticed a few different things. Comparing the two and thinking about the similarities and differences. There are not many differences from the movie American sniper and the book American Sniper except that the book talks about his childhood life more. The comparison between the two is interesting because Chris Kyle wrote one while other people directed the other. Chris Kyle is sent across seas to fight in Afghanistan. He makes decisions, and looks to have trouble making them. Making split second decisions, being in charge, and making life-threating decisions, whether to kill or possibly be killed. He has to make decisions on the spot for the safety of himself but also his crew, his squad, and his fellow navy seals. A different man other than Chris Kyle in the movie plays it, and he doesn’t go into his thoughts saying, “this is going to be difficult to do” or anything like that, in the movie you pretty much infer information based off facial expressions and screaming or cheering whether something is good or bad. Also, the movie seemed to be based off just types of action, fighting, and combat, where as the book went into other parts. The book went into things such as his training, dating life, and childhood. …show more content…

Chris talks about how difficult the job was. How harsh and brutal it was. He talks about how it morally scarred him for life, but he goes on to talk about he doesn’t regret it. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong. He specifically stated in the book in his own words that he was killing bad people. He protected his fellow seals. He was killing the enemy. They were bad people and cowards that

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