Internal Conflict In The Sniper

The Sniper

In this story the sniper faces many conflicts with his emotions because of the brutal actions

he does throughout the story to become a soldier of war. During the massive gunfire that the

enemy shot at the sniper, the sniper was able to shoot another sniper which was his brother, that

was on the opposing side.The challenges the sniper faces are immoral and unnatural because

Killing people in order to survive is his daily routine. On a daily basis he must decide on pulling

the trigger in order to survive or risk getting killed. In a war, a soldier must put his feelings and

emotions aside to do what is expected as soldier.

The external problem the sipers is facing is “Man vs. man”,

Then the sniper notice how

much pressure he's going through just to kill other human beings. When the sniper shoots the

other sniper with his revolver he had a quick glance of the snipers face, he felt sick inside. When

he had saw the face of his own brother lying dead on the stone floor.

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The internal conflict he's facing is when he needs to act like a soldier and just go for the

kill. It’s a “Man vs. Self” that is keeping him emotionally unstable when he's put in the line of

battle. One of the main problems the sniper has is that he is having problems with trying to

overcome his conflicting feelings that he struggles with after he takes another man’s life. The

sniper has to become a machine in order to do his duty as a soldier to commit this drastic action.

This feeling are also apart of the theme when he had felt guilt and horrible pain inside when he

realized he had killed his own blood. The sniper became corrupted with hate this is