The Sniper Story

The story “The Sniper” is written by Liam O’Flaherty and it takes place in the civil war in Dublin, Ireland in the 1920’s. The war is between the Republicans and the Free Staters. The other story “Cranes” is written by Hwang Sunwon and it takes place in the civil war in Korea in the early 1950’s . these stories are fairly similar based on the conflicts happen in countries where civil wars are taking place and the main characters have to make difficult decisions between being loyal to their Family, friends or, country.
The first, story the readers will read is the “The Sniper” the main character is the sniper and his situation is that he has to make difficult decisions like having to shot a old lady and the gunman to protect his hidden spot
After being flushed out of his hiding place in his house. And songsam has to pick between letting his friend go or doing what his country wants. His motive for bringing him in was that if he didn't he could be charged with espionage or helping someone on the other side of the war. And this sparked a conflict of whether he should save his friend or bring him to be killed. He eventually lets him go learning that friendship is stronger than war. And after seeing a group of cranes It made him have a flashback of them catching a crane and wanting to save its life by untying the crane and letting it go. This is a direct result that caused songsam to untie Tokchae and said he'll make a “trap to with this rope; you flush a crane over here”(Sunwon 277). Trying to tell tokchae to leave and escape. But Tokchae didn't catch on at first that that Songsam was trying to let him free to let him live on in life and not get killed for his crimes. Only when Songsam said “Go flush the crane!”(sunwon 277). This story show the reader that even in the time of war friendship is stronger than war and that no matter what you should hold loyalty to your friends before your