In Liam O’ Flaherty suspenseful fiction story “ The Sniper” is about how the irland Republicans and Free Staters were fighting a civil war. While almost getting himself killed‚ the sniper ends up unknowingly killing his brother. The author creates suspense with the use of increasing and decreasing pace. The author made the story suspenseful by all the action or conflict in the story. The author created suspense by having a wide variety of his word choice. In The Sniper the author creates suspense
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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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The Sniper The sniper is a story about a civil war taken place in Dublin. It tells of a republican sniper sitting on a rooftop of a building near to O’Connell bridge. The war is between Republicans and the free states. the sniper is one of the fellow of republican‚ when a free state sniper shows himself on an opposite roof. they were waiting each other to see who would end up the better. Eventually the republican sniper gains the upper hand and after taking a bullet in the arm
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The Blindness of 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
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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 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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The life of a 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
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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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The stories “The Sniper” and “Cranes” are two very similar but yet different stories. “The Sniper‚” was written by Liam O’Flaherty‚ the story is about a republican sniper trying to get out of a civil war ‚in Ireland‚ in the end the sniper succeeds in sniping the enemies sniper but learns it’s his brother. “Cranes‚” is written by Hwang Sunwōn and is about a man‚ named Sōngsam‚ and his old pal‚ Tōkche‚ heading to the jail‚ and on there way cranes appear and Sōngsam lets Tōkche go. But the one story
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder of an American Sniper American sniper is about Chris Kyle‚ a man who is motivated to join the armed forces after the events of nine- eleven. He feels he owes it to his country to do something after it is attacked‚ so he enrolls in the navy. While in training it is discover that he is a very accurate shooter and he becomes a navy seal. Before being deployed he meets Taya‚ who eventually becomes his wife. While doing tours in Afghanistan Chris and Taya start a family
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