American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History is the biography of Chris Kyle an American War Hero who became a legend during the war in the Middle East. While the book gets direct testament from Kyle it was put together by 2 other people making it a biography. The book gives a brief summary of his life early life in Texas, which influenced his patriotism and service. The majority of the book takes place between numerous areas in the middle east. This portion of the book is important, because Chris Kyle’s time over seas is what really made his reputation into what it is today. The setting and genre give critical material to the story of Chris Kyle.…
The Vietnam War was a place of death, destruction, and confusion. Not only was the war a failure, but many soldiers were forced to fight. This lead to many negative effects that I must bring to your attention in this paper. The negative effects on soldiers during and after the war were depression, regret, desensitization, insanity, and the loss of friends.…
“The Things They Carried” portrays this trait in all of the men during their daily struggles in Vietnam. “In different ways it happened to all of them. Afterward, when the firing ended, they would blink and peek up. They would touch their bodies, feeling shame, then quickly hiding it. They would force themselves to stand” (Obrien 1140). Regardless if the soldiers were in support of or against the war, none would forsake it for fear of the shame it would bring. The GIs who had thrown in the towel and shot themselves in the foot to be evacuated he ridicules as “Pussies” or “Candyasses”. All the soldiers long for home and naturally sympathize with those who self-inflicted injury because none are there to fight for glory; they only fight to avoid the humiliation of quitting. The ignominy the warriors dread is strikingly similar to what Obrien would have felt if he dodged the draft. Parallel with Obrien’s own experience, the squad avoids embarrassment by forcing their way through each day. This is one of the numerous burdens the men must cope with in their new hellish…
When the soldiers first got there, they were nervous because it was their first time fighting in a war. Everything was new to them. When Jenkins died, they got hit with the harsh reality of war. After the sorrow from his death had passed, they joked around with each other all the time and were carefree. They did not realize that everything they did had a consequence that could lead to them going home or not. A Vietcong questioned Peewee and Peewee told him accurate information about himself and almost got killed. The soldiers were all so young and inexperienced so they panicked when something bad happened and ended up making a mistake. Richie missed a mission, so he went with a different squad to do what they were assigned. The soldiers were so frantic that they accidentally fired on their own platoon and killed more than a dozen American soldiers. As the novel progressed, the soldiers gained more experience and learned how to handle situations better when under pressure. Perry’s squad went on a pacification mission and said, “They were supposed to think we were the good guys… I didn’t like having to convince anybody that I was the good guy… We, the Americans, were the good guys” (112). They could not comprehend that anyone would think that the Americans were not trying to help. When the village burning happened, all of the men were confused as to why anyone would do such disturbing things like cutting off a baby’s head. During that time, Richie faced his first face-to-face encounter with a Vietcong that almost shot Richie. When an icky situation actually happens, one forgets all of his/her training and panics and/or draws a blank. Richie ends up going to the recovery hospital because he was injured and he loved the experience. It was calm and relaxing. Although Perry completely dreaded going back to his squad from the recovery hospital, he was thankful that he got a “break” from the war.…
War is devastating to the soldiers fighting in it, and they react in ways that seem abstract and foreign. Tim O’Brien’s short story “The Things They Carried” details the struggles of a platoon that represents the entire U.S. Army throughout the war effort in Vietnam. O’Brien writes about of the strange tactics of the people within First Lieutant Cross’ Platoon; whether it is bad leadership, drug use or the struggles of being Native American within Vietnam. O’Brien addresses the issues that were taking place in Vietnam by using the platoon to mirror what he saw was wrong. The initial issue O’Brien saw when he went to Vietnam was awful leadership.…
They were used to simple rules followed by society, knowing that killing is bad, your not allowed to drink alcohol under 21, and simply how to stop at a stoplight. Your morality is twisted and turned by the effects of war as killing once may have been bad in society but when you're faced against the dilemma that it's either “kill or be killed” the soldiers thoughts and emotions change drastically in that moment and forever. In society it's a rare moment to even come close to dying on a daily basis, whereas these soldiers are faced with almost dying every day instantaneously, they change because the set of rules they may have been used to following have changed. Killing may have been bad but now they are forced to survive without even taking a second thought to as if what they are doing is bad. If they had the moment to think about it in their thoughts they would be thinking about how the people they are killing may have families, be somebody's son/daughter, somebody's brother, somebody's lover,etc. If they were not forced to do this their morality and emotions wouldn't let most of them be able to do…
The idea of war brings up many questions about life and death, suffering, and consequences. While many people may see war as something that affects people as a whole, such as nations or a persecuted group, war further impacts every individual, whether or not they are directly involved. War limits freedoms and individualism, and in most cases people find themselves with less rights than during peacetime. People base their choices not on what they feel, and more on what they have to do to survive. Soldiers and civilians alike are influenced by war in different ways, however, these tie together when the overall effects of war are examined.…
The nature of Vietnam, these chapters of the tell you how bad it is in Vietnam I could just tell how awful it was just by Tim describing the things they had to do and what they did just to try to stay sane. Most of these war veterans came home with PTSD and it has messed them up since. The first story tries to tell you what they been through the things they did. Just think of your best friend dying in front of your eyes and you couldn’t do anything to stop it. That’s how the war was you friend just slowly dying and you can’t stop it.” Curt lemon stepped from the shade to a bright…
In order for anyone to make it through the traumatic experiences of war they must find trust and companionship within the people they abide with. Though it may not be easy for the men to admit, each of them had some sort of connection with each other. They all acted tough but in the situations they were put through they couldn’t afford to be enemies. For instance, Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen had a very interesting relationship. The pressure of the war influenced these two men from the same side to act violently toward one another. In some ways this relieved some of the tension that the war had put upon them. Jensen and Strunk did not attempt to fix their problems and this symbolizes just how the war breaks a person down mentally. They both wanted to seek revenge on one another. In the end, both of them take responsibility for their actions and are loyal to each other. They can’t afford to be anything less than loyal…
When one thinks of war, the general thought is that it inspires acts of patriotism and heroism. No one really looks deeper into the topic to find that along with patriotism and heroism there are often feelings of shame and loneliness. In The Things They Carried it is clear that most of the soldiers in the war do not come back with a sense of pride or honor. Most come back wishing they had never gone at all. Tim O'Brien reveals that because Vietnam precipitated such traumatic experiences, his storytelling is a great way to cope with his shame and loneliness, emphasizing that the war experience is not one of patriotism and heroism, but one of loneliness and guilt.…
It affects the mind and can change a person entirely. O'Brien says that "War is boring"(O'Brien 34). While this is true, others think "It is also mystery and terror and adventure and courage and discovery and holiness and pity and despair and longing and love"(Evans 3). Sometimes the troops would feel like they are "fighting two different wars"(O'Brien 63). This can mean many different things including the war of staying alive, trying to stay the same person they used to be, the war of sanity. "O'Brien's soldiers are people who live in extremis"(Evans 2). Somehow these people complete their missions while possibly not wanting to be part of the group and situation entirely. At one point Jimmy thought "all I wanted was to live the lifestyle was born to, a mainstream life"(O'Brien 51). Most soldiers don't want to be in the position they are, even if they disagree, a part of them wants to live a normal life a be at home. War can seem everlasting. "You can tell a true war story by the way it never seems to end. Not then, not ever"(O'Brien 76). But "in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads out on a river when you must cross the river and march into the mountains and do things you are afraid to do"(O'Brien 85). O'Brien knows what war means to him because he experienced it first hand. It takes many qualities to be a living war veteran. They…
Now that the bridges built between the two men have been broken, there is no denying the strong identicalness. Becoming aware of these things can be agonizing.These atrocities of war also cause men and women to feel unreal.. The importance of things change. Their emotions become out of whac and their feelings of self-preservation minimize but that is how they are able to carry out the mission. As said in "Why Soldiers Don't Talk", "During this time a kind man is capable of great cruelties and a timid man of great bravery, and nearly all men have resistance to stresses beyond their ordinary ability"(Steinbeck 7).War has forced them to overcome their original and regular feelings so they can perform for their country. Most of them can put up a wall to shield their system from their unharmonious memories, but not all of them can. The rest that cannot put up a resistance to the cruelties, have to endure through them and figure out a way to deal with it effectively. Trying to manage the out of control emotions, is always an arduous burden. In some…
Remove the main seat and the passenger seat. Hold the front of the fuel tank up using the prop rod located in the trunk area. Locate the connector from the main wiring harness to the injector rail and uplug this connector (Fig. A).…
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