Analysis Of The Sniper
Civil war, ireland 1922-1923. A brother kills a brother. People literally being shot on the street. The sniper shows us the side of war and civil war that many do not see. This is my view on the exemplary piece of writing “the sniper”.
The year 10 pupils of saint patrick college should find this story interesting. It uses a large range of vocabulary and keeps the reader in suspense and making us want to read it more. It explains the setting/characters very well, for example “The long june twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and dark waters of liffey”. As you can see, in the first two sentences of the piece of writing it explain the setting extremely well and creates a depressive/mysterious theme. …show more content…
Firstly, it shows us a side of the war that we do not hear often of. The soldier's feelings and experiences. Of Course we hear about the heros in WW1 and WW2 etc, but we don't often hear of the normal soldier who fights in a war (unless there family).
We can compare this text to current affairs in many ways. The sniper is set in a time of civil war for ireland and where a republican sniper killed his free state brother. In syria at this moment in time there is a civil war much worse than in ireland because there are many different groups of rebels and terrorists. But we can compare it because any civil war is horrific and many people could be killing their brothers and other family members because of different beliefs.
War is war, civil or international. So we can compare this text to many war books and stories, nonfiction or fiction. So we can connect this story to Unbroken, Auschwitz and other war stories. In any war people die, which means people always have lost of a close one. So we can compare other war stories to this civil war piece of
The year 10 pupils of saint patrick college should find this story interesting. It uses a large range of vocabulary and keeps the reader in suspense and making us want to read it more. It explains the setting/characters very well, for example “The long june twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and dark waters of liffey”. As you can see, in the first two sentences of the piece of writing it explain the setting extremely well and creates a depressive/mysterious theme. …show more content…
Firstly, it shows us a side of the war that we do not hear often of. The soldier's feelings and experiences. Of Course we hear about the heros in WW1 and WW2 etc, but we don't often hear of the normal soldier who fights in a war (unless there family).
We can compare this text to current affairs in many ways. The sniper is set in a time of civil war for ireland and where a republican sniper killed his free state brother. In syria at this moment in time there is a civil war much worse than in ireland because there are many different groups of rebels and terrorists. But we can compare it because any civil war is horrific and many people could be killing their brothers and other family members because of different beliefs.
War is war, civil or international. So we can compare this text to many war books and stories, nonfiction or fiction. So we can connect this story to Unbroken, Auschwitz and other war stories. In any war people die, which means people always have lost of a close one. So we can compare other war stories to this civil war piece of