Suspense In The Sniper

The Sniper is a suspenseful short story written by Liam O'Flaherty.This story takes place in the Irish civil war in this story there is a republican sniper and a free-state sniper these snipers get in a shooting war and them more people show up to him the free state sniper. This story uses time to make it more suspenseful they use things such as giving you time to think what might happen and ,using words to give you an idea of how fast things are happening and why they are doing it like that. They use many of these things many times to create suspense throughout the whole story.

One way that time makes the story more suspenseful is by giving you more time to think about what is going to happen. This happened when the sniper light a match but it was dangerous and they waited til the next paragraph to tell what happen. I picked this because it
This made the story more suspenseful because it shows how fast something is moving and it leaves you thinking whats going to happen next.This happens in the story when the other sniper shot at the republican sniper after shooting the turret and old lady because he “suddenly” shot. This part makes the story more suspenseful because it leaves you wonder what happened to the other sniper that got shot at. Another time this happened was when the sniper “quickly” drew his knife after being shot. This made the story more suspenseful because it leaving you wondering what the sniper is going to do and why he drew the knife so quickly.

Overall this story uses time to make the story suspenseful in many places and different ways. In this story there are many times in the story where they give you time to think or to just give you a picture of what is going on in the story. They do this in one scene where the they shot at the republican sniper they give you a picture of how fast things are happening and give you time to think about what is going to happen