Alternate Ending To The Sniper

Good Friday, 1973, Kemper planned on waiting for his mother to come home from a party, but accidently fell asleep. He was awakened by the sound of his mother in another room. He then entered her room to find her sitting in bed reading a paperback book. She saw him walk in and said, “I suppose you’re going to want to sit up all night and talk now,” to which he replied, “No, good night,” and beat her to death with a claw hammer. He decapitated her then used her head for sex and a dart board. Once he was done with her, he called her friend, Sally Hallett, over to the house. Upon arrival Kemper strangled her and left the scene and evidence behind. The entire time Kemper was planning and performing the murder of his mom, the memories of the abuse, humiliation, and unfairness that his mother had left him were stuck in his head. His mother had left a permanent scar on young Kemper’s ego which led to his horrific murders.

When someone first enlists in the war, they are fresh,new, and ready to fight for their country. As the years go by, war breaks the soldiers down and turns them into rugged, motionless men. The generals mold them into killers with no feelings and only designed to kill without content. This is true in The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty. The theme of war brings out the worst in people turning them into monsters is developed through three types of conflict: man vs man, man vs himself, man vs circumstances.

“Wars never hurt anybody except for the people who died” -Salvador Dali, leader of the Surrealist Movement. In both stories men who are at war are described, both of these men have killed a man who are known as their foes. Both of the men realize that the man they killed could've been a friend, and were someone who really wasn't the enemy. The relationship between these two stories is that war can tear families apart. In Liam O'Flaherty's “The Sniper” and “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy both show similarities and differences in plot, irony, and theme.

Summary: The Last Shot is about a young boy in his late teens named Bryan "Rocket" Rockwood. Rocket is very small but makes up for it with his strength. With his determination and hard work he hopes to make it to the NHL. He's trying out for an OHL team, by making this team it increases his chances in making the NHL. During his training camp he is bunking in with his friend in .......Rocket feels that the OHL is the best route for his future, where his mother feels he should go off to college. As time goes on, cuts have to be made and Rocket makes it past the final cut, making him part of the team. His first exhibition game is against one of his childhood friends who plays for the London Knights.

Tying the laces on her tennis shoes, she spotted her slender image in the cheval mirror. She had gotten thinner over the past year. She always had a slender build with delicate features, but with the extra loss of weight, she appeared more fragile. Even so, she looked acceptable and was now ready to face the other guests.

It is a beautiful, sunny day in Miami, Florida. The birds are chirping, and the fresh ocean breeze is rustling the leaves. Steve Weston is trying to make the most out of this hot, summer day. He spots a moving truck outside his window. A young girl with dark hair and bright yellow glasses and what appears to be her father get out of the truck and go into the house next door. Steve was not expecting new neighbors so soon. All of the sudden, Steve hears loud banging noises, one after the other after the other. To others that is the sound of a nail gun going off, but to him that is the sound of the bullets firing from an M240 machine gun. He is transported to the battlefield where he lost his best friend and wife, Caroline Jones. After Steve came

Which would set Kid off in a wailing despair of desperation to find the offending toilet paper and correct it. Liz would simply paint her nails calmly knowing her statement was not true and Patty would chuckle watching after kid in astonishment still getting used to this quirk of his.

She had taken care of him, suffered through his fits of rage, accepted his blind addiction to loving himself, and his inability to sympathize with there needs. She was alone, isolated, and her pain was denied by his constant need for the world to revolve around his compulsions. This contradictory life weighed heavily on her, until one day she cold not live with it any longer. He came home on one of his low days. He was upset by his business, rattling on about how his business associates had wronged him. As he was ranting, something in her snapped, she grabbed the kitchen knife to her left and stabbed

The killer tugged the knife from out of Lucy’s stomach and with very little effort slit Lucy’s throat. She instinctively clutched at her throat, though fully knowing that it would do no good. As Lucy fell to the ground, she could feel her life coming to an end. As she began to close her eyes, instead of finding a calming peace, all she heard was the killer singing,

It has been at least an hour and a half since the attack. She does not remember anything that happened. She slowly get up and reaches for the doorknob. A sudden shot of pain went up her arm. Blood then started dripping from her hand. She had been cut. A knife stabbed her in her hand. “Ow.”, She then blacks out.

The characteristics of the characters in a story are something that makes them who they are and what you start to learn about them. In The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty, the protagonist shoots and kills the antagonist. The two characters in the story are, the protagonist which was the narrator (main sniper) and the antagonist (enemy sniper). The protagonist saves the lives of others because of his his intelligence, his determination, and his risk-taking.

As bullets swathe the night, ripping through the bushes with intent to dispatch of human life, seeing the air disturbance caused by the trail of the bullets, indicates where the bullet is and where it is going and because of that, she is hesitating to aid her mom. However, the ground is very wet, and darkness is the canvass. The gunfire is sporadic at best, and the fiery trails of the bullets actively strike everywhere penetrating her mother once again, this time embedded in her chest. Michelle screams. Sickened by the sight Freddie turns.

Bang, Bang, Bang. The gun fires shot. Unfortunately, Mrs. Wehling didn't hear the sound of the gunshots because of the pain of having triplets. Her screams could be heard throughout the hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Mrs. Wehling finally had her three babies. She was unaware that her husband sacrificed himself to save the life of their triplets. She was sitting down on the bed, holding one of her babies, when a nurse came rushing into her bedroom. The nurse informed Mrs. Wehling that her husband shot himself and two other doctors not hours ago. Mrs. Wehling was at first in denial but once the nurse suggested she put down her baby in the crib and come to the horrifying crime scene, she dropped down to the floor weeping at the sight of her husband's

Eileen was startled by the sight of her mom pointing a gun to her head. Luckily her mother was sleeping. She felt dizzy, Like this wasn't happening. She didn't want to wake and scare her and potentially have the gun go off. So she gently took her fingers off the trigger and took the gun out of her hands. It was like surgery of how precise she was taking it out of her hand. Once the gun was out of her hand she put it on the bed farthest away from her and shook her awake and just started yelling at her. Some of the things she said were “ How could you be so selfish?” and “I hate you!” She walking out of her room she hid the gun in a different room. She was so upset. She couldn't believe that her own mother would take her life. Or at least attempt to. She felt that every waking moment her mother abused her. She felt that her mother made her do EVERYTHING in the house. She was so angry at her mother. She had done everything she had ever asked of her and yet she wanted to take her life. But her mom did give a lot more respect towards

Through literature, Liam O’Flaherty, the author of the short story The Sniper, clearly illustrates how horrific and destructive war really is. He illustrates the appalling agony of the Irish civil war through a dramatic story of two brothers against each other in the war. Through the the author's writing, readers can conclude that the theme of The Sniper is that war destroys families. O’Flaherty sets emphasis on this theme by using many strong literary devices. The literary devices used that apply the most emphasis on the theme are situational irony, setting, and the author's use of direct characterization .