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What is home for the protagonist, Chris Kyle, in American Sniper? Home is something really strange for Chris in the movie. A part of him stays in Iraq because he is fighting for his country against the terrorism but the other part is his "theorical" home : he is a father and has his family in the house. Therefor, he probably thinks his home is in America, where his own family lives. But we can deduce easily that it is harder than that in his mind. There is the scene when he is in front of the TV, he is with his family but his mind is in the war, with the other soldiers, who are his second family (maybe the first one?). Moreover, he takes a lot of risks for his country, he can die whenever when [I searched "alors que" here and found "when" but it seems strange to me] with his family, it could be so stressless for him without any danger. We can add that he knows about that thanks to his wife, Taya. She is against his job since the beginning (she didn't want to get married to a soldier when they met each other for the first time) and she argues with him because of that. She is worried for him but she also doesn't want their son be without his father. To put it in a nutshell, Chris Kyle has probably two "home" but he can't do the difference by himself because he doesn't see how he is with his families, the soldiers and his wife and son.

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What is home for the protagonist, Chris Kyle, in American Sniper?

Home is something really strange for Chris in the movie. A part of him stays in Iraq because he is fighting for his country against the terrorism but the other part is his "theoretical" home : he is a father and has his family in the house.* Therefore, he probably thinks his home is in America, where his own family lives. But we can deduce easily that it is harder than that in his mind.
There is the scene where he is in front of the TV, he is with his family but his mind is (still) in the war, with the other soldiers, who are his second family (or maybe the first one?). Moreover, he takes a lot of risks for his country, he can die whenever when whereas [I searched "alors que" here and found "when" but it seems strange to me]** with his family, it would be so stressless for him without any danger.
We can add that he knows about that this thanks to his wife, Taya. She is against his job since from the beginning (she didn't want to get married to a soldier when they met each other for the first time) and she argues with him because of that. She is worried for him but she also doesn't want their son to be without his father.
To put it in a nutshell, Chris Kyle has probably two "homes" but he can't do the difference differentiate by himself because he doesn't see how he is with his "families": the soldiers and his wife and son.***


*Not wrong, but it reads a little awkward. I would rephrase as "he is a father, and is far from his family and the house he shares with them", or "...and is far from the house he shares with his family."

**Dans ce cas là (une comparaison entre deux possibilités), on dit « whereas ».

***Or "...he can't diffentiate between his military family and his wife and son/civilian one.

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