Alternate Ending To The Sniper

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.

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.

She then gets mad because her mother gets angry with her, and so she decides to go outside. Once outside she shoots up just to spite her mother,

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.

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.

Her lips formed strange and unusual sounds, her eyes closed softly and her cheeks paled. From her side belt she withdrew a small knife, a dagger. With a quick movement she cut her left hand with the dagger. As the drops of blood hit the cold marble floor the knife also clattered to the ground. The girl remained speaking her foreign tongue and let her life's blood run down her outstretched arm.

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.

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.

“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.

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 mother and grandmother sat at the house in panic thinking about Chris. But they could not do anything are they would be shot by the people left there with them. Chris began to fight for his life and his family’s. Everyone was surprised of the heart that Chris shown. The boys started to hit him all at one time and told him not to fall! One of the younger gang members muttered quietly to

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

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

During an encounter with an unknown man, the child's life is put into danger. This unknown man did not physically hurt the child, but he had a knife to his throat. The man decides that he must kill this man by shooting him in the

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 .