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Chris Kyle Essay

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1. The purpose of this work is to inform the public that Chris Kyle isn’t really this great American hero, but instead a killer who takes pleasure in what he does during his time in the military. For example, she talks a lot about what Chris Kyle wrote in his memoir and how we can start to see that he isn’t the hero that he was made out to be. She quotes from his book that he writes “I couldn’t give a flying fuck about the Iraqis” because he only saw them as the bad people and not human beings.

2. The author’s point of view is from a first-person point of view. An example of this would be when she writes “I have to confess: I was suckered by the trailer for American Sniper” because she wants the public to know that before she really knew who Chris Kyle was, she too saw him as this great American hero and that she gradually saw him as less than the American hero that she and everyone else saw him as, but as more of a person who was just killing because it was fun.

3. The writer feels the need to write because she wants her readers to understand that Chris Kyle isn’t the great American hero that we all see him as. For example, she writes that “they call for the rape or …show more content…

I think that the audience is the American public and I can tell by the way she is writing because she is writing in a way that helps people understand where she is coming from when she writes this. For example she writes “There is no room for the idea that Kyle might have been a good soldier but a bad guy; or a mediocre guy doing a difficult job badly; or a complex guy in a bad war who convinced himself he loved killing to cope with an impossible situation; or a straight-up serial killer exploiting an oppressive system that, yes, also employs lots of well-meaning, often impoverished, non-serial-killer people to do oppressive things over which they have no control” because she wants to show the reader that there are many different ways that you can view him and not one of them is right or

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