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Questioning The Characters Decisions In American Sniper

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Chris Kyle was carefully surveying the rooftops of Fallujah, Iraq to ensure that no Iraqi insurgents had a chance to put any Marine lives in jeopardy. Chris was in awe as he watched a woman and a child exit a nearby house carrying a grenade. The child took the grenade from the woman and began running towards the group of marines. Chris new the capability of the grenade and new that he must fulfill his duty as an over watch sniper. Chris shot the boy and seconds after the grenade exploded; it shattered all of the windows of the nearest houses. This is just one of the many crazy events that took place in the autobiography American Sniper, written by the deadliest sniper in American History, Chris Kyle. Although Chris faced many problems in his …show more content…

A decision that I questioned was Chris’s decision to deploy for the fourth time. During Chris’s third tour in Iraq, he had multiple friends die and saw tons of marines get killed with bombs ☹ (Hyperbole). Chris also has a newborn daughter who he would not see again for a year if he deployed. Chris’s decision does not make sense to me. One possible reason why Chris wanted to deploy again is because he wanted revenge on the people who killed his friends. This quote shows Chris’s frustration with his friend’s death “it was my fault, it was my idea to go on that rooftop and because of me he got shot” (Kyle 179). Chris may have felt guilty that his friend died and he did not, so he deployed to relieve himself of the guilt. I also wondered why did Chris did not shoot “the butcher” when he had the chance. Chris watched the butcher drag a man in to the middle of the street and kill him because “the butcher” found out that that man had given the Americans tips of where insurgents were hiding. Chris had a chance to shoot the butcher but he decided not to shoot. One reason why Chris did not shoot is because he did not want to draw attention to his group of SEALs hiding on a rooftop. There were only three SEALs and over 20 insurgents. Another reason why Chris did not shoot is because Chris was not sure at the time that the man “the butcher” killed gave the Americans a tip of an insurgent hideout. Chris’s decision to deploy for his fourth time and his decision not to kill a high priority target is two decisions I questioned while

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