Once, during recess in elementary school during the winter, an older student seems to have decided to have some fun at my expense. He took a handful of snow and proceeded to shove it down my winter coat, after that he ran off. I fumed for a while before coming up with a plan and mustering up the determination to do it. As the bell to go back inside rang, I located my target and then threw a snowball at said target. I was spotted by a teacher and was issued the equivalent of a lunch detention. My act of determination failed, and I was caught. While I only got a detention these people had much more on the line than a simple detention. The IRA Sniper from “The Sniper” and Deuce from The Razorland Trilogy both demonstrate extreme determination. They show this determination through their refusal to succumb to intense pain and risk it all to defeat their opposition.
Starting off is the IRA Sniper from “The Sniper” who quite clearly shows how determined he is. One example is when after being shot in the arm, ”He broke the neck of the iodine bottle and let the bitter fluid drip into the wound. A paroxysm of pain swept through him…he made an effort of will to overcome the pain.” (O’Flaherty 3). he used a extremely painful
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The IRA Sniper overcame the pain of his wounds. He then proceeded to attempt and succeeded in a daring and dangerous plan to save his life. Deuce too overcomes the pain of her wounds but she later endangers her own life to save another at the risk of being eaten alive. My own experiences show that determination comes in many sizes. Determination is something necessary for every choice and while having all the determination in the world will not guarantee success, having too little will most definitely will ensure failure. Deuce’s determination helped keep her alive as she save her friend while the IRA Sniper used his to save
The Republican sniper had medical knowledge from training that helped him, for the rest of his life. An opposing sniper on a rooftop targeted and shot the Republican sniper. The shot had left his arm immobilized, and left him in a lot of pain. Since the bullet was still in his arm and most likely fractured the bone, the Republican sniper saturated the bullet hole with iodine to prevent infection and clean the wound. Then, he covered the wound in a piece of cotton and added the dressing over it.
The acknowledgment of adversity paired with the constant effort to overcome allows us strive in life. A strong example of the fearless plight against
This proves that when someone has the brains and can outthink adversity. Someone can can survive and make sure it does not happen
In Linda Park’s novel “A Long Water To Water” Linda talks about a 11 year old boy named Salva Dut who had to go through the Second Sudanese war and had to leave everything behind and go to the bushes and ha To Begin, an important survival factor that Salva had to do to survive was determination. Salva had to use determination to not only survive the longest day in the Akobo desert but also had to conquer his discouragement from the pain he had from stubbing his toe which made his toenail fall off. “The worst moment of the day happened near the end. Salva stubbed his bare toe on a rock, and his whole toenail came off. The pain was terrible.
(Goldman, 348). Instead of giving up, Inigo adapts to his wound and continues to push through to the end. This resilience carries him to success, when he revenges his father’s death. Even when he is on the brink of death, Inigo succeeds because of his resilience. Giving up automatically means failure, but pushing through to achieve dreams is followed by success.
When life makes you feel horrible, persistence is what lets life be a bit better to get through. When Odysseus was premeditating the Cyclop’s blinding in Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, he did not lie down and wait for death to pick him apart, he states in a solid, godly voice, “... no quitting now…” ( 9; 840). He goes along with his men, and stabs the ghastly beast in his horrid eye with a rugged, sharp oar. Beforehand, he had incapacitated the creature by intoxicating him with
When I was in 7th grade, I had played football for the school. One day during summer camp, we were going over plays and positions and one play someone had said something to me. During the next play I was angry at the kid so I went directly for him. I dropped my shoulder and hit him hard and he laid flat like a pancake on the turf.
The author believes that determination was the key to surviving in tough times. For example, Elie Wiesel is with his father at a concentration camp called Buna. Wiesel walked in on something at the wrong time. The SS officer is furious and punishes him. On page 38 the book states, “I came forward.
The determination to live comes from human nature. But the urge of giving up when we come across a difficult problem is also a part of human nature. There a few people in this world that have the characteristics of resilience. As author Kendra Cherry describes them, "People that are able to keep their cool have what psychologists call resilience, or an ability to cope with problems and setbacks" (Source A; Cherry, 1). An example of someone who has the characteristics of resilience is a bombardier name Louis (Louie) Zamperini.
Testing Men’s Emotions What turned scared, timid men into brave battle ready soldiers? During the time of the revolutionary war when men were needed to go up against the British. Thomas Paine was using persuasive writing techniques to get men to stand up and fight. In Thomas Paine’s
In the short story The Sniper, Liam O’Flaherty recounts a story of an Irish sniper fighting for the republican army during the Irish Civil War. He wrote this short story based on his experience with time at war. Liam o’flaherty illustrates how war can reduce the value of family and human lives, betrayal, and suspense. In this essay I will be discussing these major themes as well as comparing this story to books such as The Odyssey and others containing similar themes. This essay also will discuss how suspense is used in Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper.
In paragraph 8 of "My Escape from North Korea", Hyeonseo Lee used determination to get passed the Chinese police. This is an example of determination because of cracking under the pressure of the police interrogation, Lee was able to achieve her goal of escaping North Korea. Because of Lee's determination, she was able to get herself and her family out of North
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.
Justice is an underlying idea that humans revolve around. It is our sole concept that constructs how we think and behave. Justice creates morals and therefore how we judge those around us. If we didn’t have justice, our society would be in chaos and completely unruly. When identifying what is just, there are quite a few traits that can be clearly spotted.
If you knew who you were shooting at, would you pull the trigger? In the story called ¨The Sniper¨ by Liam O'Flaherty, a man, who is referred to as ´the sniper´ is about a man who is in a war in Dublin. The first thing that happens is when he shoots a man in a turret and a woman. Then he gets shot in the arm. Then he shoots an enemy sniper.