As Kyle is sitting in his living room he hears the sounds of gunshots and helicopter completely dazed on the thought of war, all sure symptoms that he is facing PTSD. When his wife tries to talk to him as he blocks her out while focused on a kid playing with a dog. While Taya continues to try and have a conversation with him Kyle jumps up and believes that the dog is trying to attack the child. He rips the dog off the child and nearly beats it in the head until Taya stops him. “This scene shows to what extent Kyle had his senses and militarized and reframed in terms of issues of life or death” (Andreescu 214). It is clearly shown that his mind is trapped in war combat. By him submerged in this mindset of combat is a characteristic that reflect
