Hero Of War Analysis

When soldiers come home from war a large majority don’t know how to fit in with the rest of us as they have been away for a long period of time doing things that your average person wouldn’t do on a day to day basis. I have chosen the theme “When soldiers return home from war the don't know how to feel or act”. This theme is portrayed in the songs “Hero of War” by Rise Against, “21 Guns” by Green Day and in the films “Rambo: First Blood” directed by Ted Kotcheff and in “American Sniper” directed by Clint Eastwood.

In the song Hero of War the artists portray the theme “When soldiers return home from war the don't know how to feel or act” through the use of the line “A hero of war, Is that what the see, Just medals and scars, So damn proud of me”. This shows that once the soldier returns home from war he doesn’t know how to handle all the praise that is thrown at him by Family and friends as he doesn’t believe what he did while away at war was righteous or
This is portrayed through the continued use of flashback moments in the film. An example of this is when the main character “Chris Kyle” goes to the Garage with his son and when the man in the main garage starts to use a Impact wrench on the tires of the vehicle in front of him Chris begins to have flashbacks to when he was in Iraq and the “Butcher” was using a cordless drill on the arm and head of a young boy. This is a prime example of when a soldier comes home from war and he can't handle what he did while he was away and the things he saw, it got so bad that he couldn’t go home and face his family because of the way he felt and the things he saw. This began to make Chris feel as though he was isolated from everything and everyone for a period of time, This period of loneliness was forgotten when Chris began to rediscovery himself and what it meant to be