Comparing Connor's Unwind And The IRA Sniper

One belief all three writers had is self-reliance. In the nonfiction book Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, the author talks about how McCandless was very independent

Liam O’Flaherty’s realistic fiction story, “The Sniper,” takes place in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. In the story, a Republican Sniper is stuck on a roof with enemy snipers surrounding him. He shoots two enemies down before he is shot in the arm causing his rifle to brake. Now he must find a way to make a hard shot in order to kill the enemy with just a revolver and a hurt arm. By using word choice and sensory details O’Flaherty demonstrates the theme that actions have serious repercussions.

The other sniper is situated on a building on the other side of the street as the Republican Sniper. On top of being shot at, an armored car, of the opposing side, drives up near the Republican sniper’s position. He believes that his position was given up by a local woman who was walking around. The Republican sniper must kill this woman or his life will be in jeopardy. The Republican sniper takes the shot, and kills the woman. However, even after killing the woman, the Republican Sniper is still being shot at. He has to shelter himself, so, making his way to the top floor of the building, he situates himself. The Republican sniper proceeds to have a shootout with the other unknown sniper. The Republican sniper needs a way to kill his opponent, so he devises an ingenious plan. He fakes his death by pretending to be shot in the head. The opposing sniper, thinking he had killed the Republican sniper, makes his way out of his hiding spot. This exposes him, and the Republican sniper has a clear shot. The Republican sniper takes the shot, and sees the body of his opponent falling to the ground. The Republican sniper then goes to examine the dead body of his opponent, and to his horrifying realization, discovers that the man he had just outwitted and killed, was really his brother.

The war influenced the sniper by forcing him to be brave. In this situation, brave is lying on a roof for many hours scouting the area for

thinks is right or a person who fights because he has to? “The Sniper” tells a story of a sniper who is in a fight between another sniper. The story takes place in Dublin Ireland and is considered Civil War. In ¨The Sniper,” Liam O’Flaherty uses diction, point of view, and plot to create a story of loss, pain , and an intense mood.

Set in a dystopian society in the future, the novella Anthem written by Ayn Rand is all about being a collective society which doesn’t believe in individualism. Ayn Rand constructs a society in which individualism is a transgression. The government enforces the idea of collectivism to the society. They believe that in the human race each person is not single. The protagonist, Equality 7-2521 wants to be an independent person. He wants to be free. As stated in the novel, “To be free, a man must be free of his brothers.” This statement means that in order to be successful, he has to be his own person. As the novel goes on Equality 7-2521 learns to be an independent man and frees himself from the society which forces collectivism.

The sniper brushes with death again when he throws his revolver down without thinking and it goes off. Bullets make a war very deadly, as they are much more precise than earlier and much simpler weapons (such as swords and muskets).

Chris McCandless misunderstood Emerson’s words in “Self Reliance”. Chris may have been bright when it comes to academics, but when it comes to analyzing and understanding a writer’s words…he is as dark as the night. Emerson states “but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude” (Emerson 2). Solitude has a positive connotation about being alone like finding one’s true self. Isolation has the negative connotation that means forced being

The sniper decides to light the cigarette. “Almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof.” This means that there is danger everywhere, vigilant and waiting for the sniper to make the wrong move, a move that might cost him his life. The informant relays the sniper’s position to the soldiers in the armored vehicle. After shooting both the informer and the soldier on the street, a shot consequently rings out. “ ‘I’m hit,’ he muttered” No matter how well of a marksman he is, he can still be wounded in battle and he has. “The woman’s corpse lay still in the gutter.” The informant would be on the side of the Free Staters as the sniper is a republican; however, since she had acted upon her beliefs, she had been assassinated attempting to flee. No matter who believes their cause is the ‘right one’, there will be casualties and injuries during the conflict on both

Independent and dependent both have their good and bad reasons in Ayn Rand's novel “Anthem” Equality 7-2521 experiences both of these. Equality 7-2521 starts out in this novel as everyone else in his society dependent on each of their brothers on every decision. He then slowly starts to become independent towards the end of the novel. Well Equality was still depending on his brothers he was disobeying the law by working by himself. He had discovered electricity and he then invented the “glass box that was able to hold light,he soon after wanted to show his new invention thinking that it would be life changing to the house of scholars but they rejected him causing him to become completely independent and not rely on any of his brothers.

Christopher McCandless can be described as Independent. He survived 2 years out in the wild with only a few supplies and only a months worth of food. On page 36 it says, ”He had not seen or talked to another soul in thirty-six days. For that entire period he subsided on nothing but five pounds of rice and what marine life he could pull from the sea.”This shows that he was able to live out on his own. Chris didn't need anything but himself to keep him living. Another example He hunted for animals and ate edible

The sniper was inhaling a cigarette on a rooftop when someone launched a fire at him from the opposite side of the street. He managed to escape the shot successfully without any injury or bruises. The sniper also managed to kill two other free staters after that, one man and one woman.

He can’t use his rifle because he lost the use one of his arms. If he was anyone else they would give up and wait for death. The Sniper instead, thinks up a plan to take out his enemy and save himself. Cinder, while she’s quick and thinking up plans, she doesn’t plan too far ahead. Cinder plans out how to get around the issue, but after she solves the issue she doesn’t anticipate how to deal with the aftereffects.

Independence is the key element for success and survival. It is the state of having the ability to be free and a life shaped by one’s self rather than others. It also means everything runs by the ideals and dreams of one’s self whether people like it or not. However, at first for Winnie Foster that was not the case. In the Novel Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt it discusses Winnie Foster’s incapability of having freedom but however, in the end due to her bravery of overcoming fears and determination she gains the freedom she desires and discovers her true self.

This explains how this was a character vs character type of thing because they were both shooting at each other with powerful rifles, leaving one of them weak because one sniper shot the other sniper, leaving them weak. Another reason why this is a character vs character is because one of the sniper brought back up. “Just then an armoured car came across the bridge and advanced slowly up the street” (19). A strong and powerful vehicle appeared out of nowhere. “It was an enemy car” (19). One of the snipers had a team with them to take out the other sniper and the other sniper knew he couldn't do anything about it because it was an armoured car and he knows his sniper can’t do anything.