Ideas And Beliefs In The Sniper

Liam O'Flaherty uses similes to enhance the story “The Sniper” by creating mental images and connecting the reader’s experiences to quotes in the story.  In the beginning of the story, a civil war between the Free Staters and the Republicans is taking place.  A Republican sniper is resting on a roof at night time, and looks over the streets of Dublin.  The author states, “Here and there through the city machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on lone farms” (213).  The shots are fired into the darkness in random bursts, breaking the silence of the night.  O'Flaherty then uses a simile to compare the sounds of the shots with dogs barking on lone farms.  This can allow the reader to be able to

War has been occurring for over thousands of years, and has claimed a devastating amount of

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” President John Fitzgerald Kennedy said to the United Nations General Assembly, on September 25th, 1961. This quote is saying that the killing of soldiers in war will soon destroy all. This relates to both stories because both soldiers regretted killing someone. In O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper” and Hardy’s “The Man He Killed” both works use plot, irony, and theme to portray the idea that war causes you to kill those you care or may have cared about.

In author Liam O’Flaherty’s story, “The Sniper”, he demonstrates expert use of suspense. The story takes place in the midst of the Irish civil war on a late evening of a June night with the main character, a young, nameless Republican sniper, stationed on a roof in Dublin, Ireland. The first display of suspense in the story takes place in the third paragraph where it states, “He was eating a sandwich hungrily. He had eaten nothing since morning. He had been to excited to eat,” this displays suspense by instilling multiple questions in the reader. “What was he excited for? Why is he excited? What is about to happen?”

The theme of the story ¨The Sniper¨ by Liam O'Flaherty shows us that fear can lead to destructive decisions. In the beginning, the sniper kills the man in the turret and kills the woman. Later on in the story, he shot the ´enemy´ sniper with the revolver. The theme was created when he finds out the man he shot was his brother. This could easily happen in real life. Fear could lead to destructive decisions, and in this case, fear led the sniper into shooting his own

In Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper, the main character, a sniper, is in the middle of a civil war in Dublin, Ireland. It is his assigned duty to assassinate anyone on the the other side of the war, no matter who they are. This creates a huge conflict, considering that the sniper ends up killing his brother. This supports the central theme that war is cruel, and this can be supported by the craft elements of the dialogue used and the setting of the story.

Suddenly from the opposite roof a shot rang out and the sniper dropped his rifle with a curse. The rifle clattered to the roof. The sniper thought the noise would wake the dead. He stooped to pick the rifle up. He couldn’t lift it. His forearm was dead. “I’m hit,” he muttered.

Liam O’Flaherty’s realistic fiction story, “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland. The main character is a sniper fighting a civil war. He is on the Republican side who is fighting against the Free Staters. He does not put a lot of thought into his actions and it ends up costing him something big in the end. By using irony and description O’Flaherty shows that action without thought can lead to serious repercussions.

Protagonist characters are the main characters, that create the action, and cause the trouble. Even though there can be multiple different stories all of the strong characters in the story are linked together in similar characteristics. When you read a story you can tell the difference between strong and weak characters. Strong protagonist characters are the heros of the story they are motivated, strong, and helpful

war changes human beings to mere objects. The story of “The Sniper” sets in the city, fundamentally in the rooftop and in the streets of the city of Dublin, Ireland.

The autobiography “American Sniper” by Chris Kyle, was an interesting topic to think about reading because of its peculiar topic. The book talks about the upbringing and life experiences of a man who was deemed “The most lethal sniper in U.S. military history”. This story provides a more detailed insight into the life of someone who is in the U.S. military.

Rainsford, Montresor,Palmer and the sniper all killed. The sniper was the most justified in the killing of his enemy. I think that the sniper was the most justified to kill his enemy because the other sniper was shooting at him and he had to do something about it or he would have got shot again.

War is too destructive of a force for people or the societies of the world to handle. It makes people have to do things that would otherwise be considered inhuman, just so that they can survive. In the story “The Sniper,” a man is forced to kill an old woman because, she was telling his enemy where he was hiding. He had to murder his fellow countrymen because they had different beliefs than he did. They wanted to change their country so that it gave them more rights, so their country decided to settle these beliefs with war. Over the centuries many stories have been written revolving around this subject, one of the greater known artists of these stories is Liam O’ Flaherty.

O'Flaherty is making a point about conflict; the specific point he is making about conflict is that war reveals how conflict leads to dividing people instead solving an issue or bringing people together. O'Flaherty states, "The sniper lay for a long time nursing his wounded arm and planning his escape" (Line 65). The mentioning of fixing his wounds and making plans to escape show that through the entire war and the idea that this will solve a problem, everyone is resulting in killing and violence to get what he or she wants. The idea of the man vs. man conflict is creating a dividing line between sides through the violence instead of coming to a solution. O'Flaherty also mentions, "Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his