American Sniper Research Paper

Year 11 English Literature Written Component – American Sniper
How my own life connects to the book
I want to be a soldier in the army once I have graduated from school. The book ‘American Sniper’ is about Chris Kyle and his life throughout the army and his time at home in Texas. I will be starting off at a higher end of the ranks as Chris enlisted through a recruiting center, I will be going through officer training to achieve leadership skills, and to enable a backup for myself if I was to ever have a serious accident at some point. I wanted to read this book for multiple reasons. One reason is that I have never heard of Chris Kyle before since the movie had begun being filmed, and when I found out there was a book I thought it would be really interesting, and it has been so far. The main reason now that I am still reading it is because now that I know what he has gone through within the army and the war on terror, I wanted it to be something like a guide for myself to get an idea of what basic training will be like, how war will affect me as a person and what is involved in being a soldier. I have always respected and admired the concept of a sniper in warfare. The ability to
Chris was so dedicated to his career that he spent little time with Taya and his children, and were beginning to get worried about the man that he has become due to war. “If you think this war hasn’t changed you, your wrong”, was a quote by Taya from the film, and is true. I couldn’t put myself in a situation where there are compromises to my career and my family, so I took it as something like advice and decided to not start a family to I have completed the first part of my life campaign. But the change is inevitable. All soldiers that come back from war are always not the same since when they started out as. Some just have good mental and emotional strength, and that’s what I must achieve for myself, just like Chris