have a devastating effect on families and people. The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty tells the story of a sniper‚ who is unnamed‚ kills others and fights for his life during a war in Ireland. The story clearly shows how destructive a war can be to a human being as well as a country. It also uses narrative structure to highlight the theme. The narrative structure used in the story is like any other narrative structure. Its conflict is the unnamed sniper surviving to not get killed. When he lit a cigarette
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get the attention of something. Irony‚ the opposite of what is expected is one way to make a story interesting. There are three types of irony: situational irony‚ verbal irony‚ and dramatic irony. Situational irony is when what happens is the opposite from what is expected. Verbal irony is when what is said is the opposite of what is meant. Dramatic irony is when the reader knows something that a character does not know. There are many stories that use irony to make them more interesting such
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According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs‚ PTSD may breakdown families and close relationships due to the fact they may no longer feel emotions(----). The sniper portrays situations where the I.R.A. sniper has to put emotions and morals to the side in order to complete the mission and survive. Liam O’Flaherty Wrote The sniper in 1932 (Cummings‚ 2007) and immediately the short story is timeless. Cummings wrote that O’Flaherty was born in 1898 on the west coast
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What is it like to be an American Sniper? Chris Kyle knows above and beyond what it is like. From 1999 to 2009‚ U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most Career Sniper kills in the United States Military History. American Sniper by Chris Kyle‚ Scott McEwen‚ and Jim DeFelice over does just a good read. American Sniper tells the story of an American Hero going above and beyond serving our country. While the book is just an Autobiography‚ an American hero plays the main focus of the book. With a
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“The Sniper” Short Story Analysis Liam O’flaherty’s “The Sniper” creates an eerie feeling caused by the intensity and severity of the raging war of the authors mind and text. Having read “The Sniper” and given the end‚ a notion is created that the author has brotherly issues or perhaps issues with a friend that is considered a brother. The sniper in the story is going through war and through the text it is shown that he is cautious and patient in his work. Although he is careful in the line
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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 in the story
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influence the best stories. A more interesting 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
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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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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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American Sniper: America’s Most Deadliest and Ethnocentric Sniper “American Sniper” (directed by Clint Eastwood) is a film autobiography about Chris Kyle (played by Bradley Cooper)‚ the deadliest sniper in American history. Several characters are introduced such as Chris’s wife‚ Taya Renae Kyle (played by Sienna Miller)‚ his brother Colton Kyle (played by Max Charles)‚ his comrade Marc Lee (played by Luke Grimes) and many more‚ The film exhibits many anthropological‚ psychological and sociological
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