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    found through ways of expressing passion to the public. Such as movies‚ songs‚ poems‚ or even a piece of art. And even though I have seen or found some type of message in all these‚ I’ve found a special one with a film by the name of The American Sniper. This is a film about a U.S Navy Seal Officer by the name of Chris Kyle that was during the fight on terrorism. The things I can take from this film that lets it connect so well with my life is a certain scene about a saying of a sheep dog‚ and

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    scoped the area to see which entrances were blocked or guarded. He saw that the front of the building only had 1 person guarding it. He looked around to make sure that no alarms would go off if he eliminated him. Howard signaled the sniper to take out the guy. The sniper gave a quick

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    The book‚ American Sniper‚ by Chris Kyle is an informative story of the life of Kyle and the delimas he went through in and out of the war. Kyle was extremely effective in showing the reader what the life of a Navy SEAL was like‚ both what he went through while at war and the controversies he went through out of service. The authors main point of writing the novel is to show everyone a SEAL’s point of view of war‚ instead of the “propaganda” seen on the news. Kyle shows the main points of the book

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    Question 1 The theme of the short story‚ “The Sniper”‚ by Liam O’Flaherty is‚ war isn’t always the answer. This is the theme because he was attempting to snipe the enemy in the short story but then ended up killing someone he loved. In the story it says‚ “The sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face.” (O’Flaherty 3). The sniper was in a sniping battle and ended up killing his brother. That shows us that from war only bad comes out of it. Another thing is the sniper killed 3 people

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    topic emerges when a character must choose between loyalty to a loved one and devotion to government. In “The Sniper” and “Cranes” the main character is involved in a civil war that calls for allegiance to the government despite his feelings for a loved one who fights for the opposite cause. “The Sniper” and “Cranes” share similarities and differences in the plot‚ the characters‚ and the theme. Although‚ these stories are two similar pieces of literature and share many similarities‚ they both are unique

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    line‚ but one day with one mistake there life is now over. “In The Sniper”‚ by Liam O’ Flaherty‚ the theme is War has the potential to destroy ones humanity. War destroys humans in many ways‚ like soldiers getting hurt for the rest of their lives‚ injured for a long period of time or even worse killed. In some cases you can kill family members without even knowing it. In the sniper at the end of the story it says “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face”. War

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    Thomas Hardy’s poem. In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Man He killed” by Thomas Hardy both literary works show similarities and differences by the use of plot‚ irony‚ and theme. In the two passages‚ there were many similarities‚ but there were also some differences throughout the plot. For example‚ in “The Sniper” the main character was a soldier at war who must kill his enemy to survive.

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    forced to kill the people they do not even know of. In Liam O’Flaherty’s story‚ The Sniper‚ the Republican sniper is forced to kill those who appear to be his enemies or allies with the enemy‚ thinking that the deaths of those people will change the flow of the war towards the Republican army. Shockingly‚ wars may take away lives of individuals from your own flesh and blood and unfortunately in the book‚ the sniper finds out that one of the victims he has

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    The Sniper Commentary “The Sniper” by Liam O’ Flaherty is a short story about a sniper‚ set in the Irish Civil War. The author uses characterization‚ symbolism and third person limited point of view to develop the central theme of the horrors of war. The main character in the story is the mysterious Sniper‚ who is serving active duty in the Irish Civil War for the Republicans. The story opens with the Sniper attempting to eat on a rooftop‚ when an enemy sniper opens fire on him. He retaliates

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    The story ends ironically when the IRA sniper realizes that the enemy he killed was his own brother. But there are larger ironies here: first‚ that all of the sniper’s Free State enemies are‚ in a sense‚ his brothers‚ for they had been comrades in arms fighting for the same cause; second‚ that all men are brothers as descendants of Adam and Eve. When they fight‚ they become Cain and Abel. No doubt‚ the IRA sniper now wonders about the identities of the turret gunner‚ the old woman‚ and the person

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