The Sniper is a short story written by Liam O’Flaherty‚ a novelist and storyteller born in 1896. In his first years he fought in the First World War‚ he retired because of the hard situations he had to live. Before his war’s recuperation he began participating in the Ireland’s revolution and then the civil war. In 1933 he suffers a mental ill and doctors believe that it was product of his experience in the battle lands. Basing his work on his own life‚ O’Flaherty has written many short stories in
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short story The Snipper by Liam O’Flaherty for the truth behind it. The author shows inter conflict and mood shift to establish that humanity is lost in war. The author uses internal conflicts to recognize the difficulty to differentiate between right and wrong. It is shown when the snipper shoots the Informer that was a lady and unarmed. The Passage states that “The snipper fired again. The woman whirled round and fell with a shriek into the gutter” (O’Flaherty 2). The sniper intentionally killed a
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People Liam O’Flaherty ends the story‚ “The Sniper”‚ with “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (par. 27). This morphs the story into something so much more than a tale about a war. Some people get so caught up in the negativity of life and their world; then‚ they become so hostile and do not realize the pain they inflict on others‚ until it is too late. Even if someone forgives another person‚ they still hold onto the memory. In the case of this sniper‚ this
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“The Sniper” is a story written about the Irish civil war. It was written by Liam O’Flaherty’s which was his first published piece of fiction. It appeared in 1923 in the London publication /The New Leader/. Over the years‚ it’s been reprinted several times and as of 2004 it could be found in O’Flaherty’s /Collection of Stories/ but what did happen in “The Sniper”? This essay will describe its characters‚ climax‚ and setting for the reader to understand. “The Sniper” takes place in central Dublin
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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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War In Liam O’ Flaherty’s short story “The Sniper”‚ two strangers in an irish civil war‚ embarrass in a conflict between themselves. The story has a more true and deeper meaning‚ how war can be so blind and numb to the body. How war can bring two strangers completely opposite from each other‚ together to find out what war actually is. The short story is truing to send out a true message to the world. That war is truly brother against brother and that it is not necessary in the world. Liam O’ Flaherty
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young men will be 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 setting in Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper” enables the story’s action and conflict because it is set during the Irish civil war. To begin‚ this story short had both internal and external conflicts. The external conflict is‚ person vs person between the sniper and the enemy sniper. The setting of this story enables that conflict because of how dangerous his surroundings are. On page 5 of this short story‚ there is a quote describing how unsafe the setting really is. “Here and there through the
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The Sniper Personality Profile In Liam O’Flaherty’s "The Sniper‚" O’Flaherty portrayed the ‘Sniper’ character as somebody who can have many different outcomes or profiles depending on how people see the character. We can kind of get an idea of how the Sniper looks‚ and his psychological profile. The way O’Flaherty describes the Sniper’s appearance‚ actions‚ and his thoughts‚ can give us subtle hints on his profile. The Sniper is described physically by having the face “of a student. When the
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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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