soldier After long hours and days of hard training to get to where soldiers are now they have to be in such great shape and every single day their life is on the 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
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of religious and political disagreements or from the rage of people. War will turn anyone‚ even innocent people‚ into targets to be shot at in order to prove a point. In war‚ 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
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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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Literature helps people experience things they would otherwise never be able to experience. Liam O ’Flaherty’s “The Sniper” is a great example of this. When O’Flaherty is explaining the scene where the sniper is on the room lighting a cigarette and a bullet whizzes past his head is a great scene that helps explain what it would be like to be in
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Abel. No doubt‚ the IRA sniper now wonders about the identities of the turret gunner‚ the old woman‚ and the person manning the machine gun. War. Death. Pain. Anger and remorse. None are pleasantries‚ but all are faced and handled every day. In Liam O’Flaherty’s "The Sniper‚" all of these things are brought to an acute reality. To aid in his creation of such emotional conflict‚ O’Flaherty portrayed the sniper as a very controversial character. We can see this contrast in personality by looking
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War has no boundaries like age‚ family‚ and time of day. In the story‚”The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty a sniper is stationed on a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge and is tasked to “take out” any hostiles. While staking out‚ the sniper got shot in the arm by a fellow sniper and is faced many challenges in order to survive. Despite the Sniper’s skill‚ the sniper is realizing how war shows no mercy. When O’Flaherty wrote‚“He paused for a moment‚ considering whether he should risk a smoke. . . He decided
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has an amazing story. O’Flaherty was a man who helped many Jewish people during the German occupation of Rome. (World War II) He was a very talented person‚ being a priest. He was one person that would help everyone before himself. Monsignor Hugh O’ Flaherty was a man that did great things during the war‚ and his story about it all is amazing. Monsignor Hugh O’Flaherty was born February 28‚ 1898‚ in the Republic of Ireland. He was the son of Margret O’Flaherty and James O’Flaherty. He lived in Killarney
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In the short story the ‘sniper by Liam O’Flaherty. O’Flaherty shows a young but experienced teenager in war. And throughout the story we see the sniper take risks such as lighting a cigarette‚ even though he knows that it will blow his cover and will be caught and shot at. We also see the sniper play it smart and calmly when he tricked the other sniper into thinking he was dead then shot him. O’Flaherty shows how the sniper is a 16 year old experienced teenager has to go to war where he must face
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can be hard to figure out where loyalties lie. The stories of “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and “Cranes” by Hwang Sunwŏn are from the point of views of men caught in different circumstances that arise from civil wars in their countries. In both of the stories the idea that civil war separates families and friends is in the conflicts that The Sniper and Sŏngsam‚ the main characters‚ go through. Over the course of Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper‚” the reader experiences what it is like to be in a war
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