Comparing O 'Connor, And The Sniper'

Throughout the story the theme that actions have serious consequences is evident. In the moment the sniper is ready and eager to shoot at the enemy. But after the moment is over, the sniper realizes just how awful his actions are.

In the story “ The Sniper” by ‘Liam O’ Flaherty’ it was a short story of how war is to be considered extremely serious, and its nothing to joke about or play around with. The sniper in the story, accidentally gave away his location when he decided to light up his cigarette, and the funny thing is he exposes himself to the enemy. The other sniper on the opposite side was able to see him. The two snipers both sides then come face to face to each other. Surprisingly, one of the sniper pulls out a brilliant plan and he successfully shoots out a deadly bullet to the enemy sniper. After the line of life and death, the sniper than decided to go and identify the enemy who he shot down and killed. He than approached the body really slowly, than turns

     The sniper develops insensitivity to death during the war. When he kills the old woman, she’s trying to run away and isn’t really a threat. He even “utters a cry of joy” when he finally shoots the enemy sniper. This shows how war can get people caught up in the cat-and-mouse “game” aspect of it and forget what they’re actually doing—killing people. People get so caught up in the “game” that they don’t think about the repercussions for their actions.

The term “sniper” means someone who shoots from a hiding place at a long range with extreme accuracy. It is said that it takes the average sniper only 1.3 bullets to kill his target. In the military the sniper has two jobs. The first job is to deliver long range fire on selected targets. The second job is is to collect and report information about the battlefield. Snipers have been used in the united states military as far back as the American Civil War, but they were called sharpshooters then. From then to now both their techniques and technology have changed together.

Compared to the sniper, there was no hesitation at all when the sniper shot the enemy. In the text it claims, “Then, when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy had been hit”(O’Flaherty 166). This displays how the sniper has no hesitation and has absolutely no regret for shooting the enemy, but soon after, the sniper starts to feel remorse for the enemy he shot. “The sniper looked at his enemy falling and he shuddered. The lust of battle died in him. He became bitten by remorse” (O’Flaherty 166). Throughout the short story, of “Horseman in the Sky”, the reader obtained many character traits about Carter including, how he enjoys the outdoors, comparing it to a piece art, an while the sniper is a flat character, who we don’t learn much about him, besides him being strikingly arrogant. These stunning short stories, remind me about the movie/book, American Sniper. With that being said, these compare because Chris Kyle, the main character in the movie/book, has a conflict to shoot a young kid, who has a

The Sniper was written by Liam O’Flaherty and The Scarlet Ibis was written by James Hurst. The Sniper was about a sniper on the Republican side going up against another sniper on the Free State side. The Scarlet Ibis was about an older brother trying to get his younger brother, who is crippled, to do things like a normal person. He would take his brother out by himself without his parents knowing and try to teach him how to do things. Both of the authors in the stories show War, Brotherhood, and Regret in the stories.

One night he encounters an enemy sniper he struggles in besting, and applauding his marksmanship, he risks his life to go examine the body of the fallen soldier. Upon finding the body, shot and lifeless, he discovers the slain enemy was his brother. But, although the bullet which killed his brother was dispensed by his hands, responsibility for his brother’s death does not fall on him. Not only was he unaware of the enemy’s identity in the darkness of night, it was also his duty to take out opposing forces; he followed through with his

The Men at War is somewhat similar to the movie American Sniper. In The Movie The American Sniper the main character almost had to shot a child. One of the stories on the Men At War talked about how he watched as a little girl got ran over and no

He felt that the regiment was losing or weakening and that they couldn’t handle it. He looked around to see how the others were feeling, so he didn’t think he was the only one. He runs once he sees others soldiers start to run away. “We ain’t never goin’ to stand this second banging. I didn’t come here to fight the hull damn’rebel army.” “The youth stared. Surely, he thought this impossible thing was not able to happen. He waited as if he expected the enemy to suddenly stop, apologize, and retire bowing. It was all a mistake. But the firing began somewhere on the regiment line and ripped a long in both directions.” “The words that comrades had uttered previous to the firing began to recur to him.” He saw other soldiers talk negatively and that affected what he was going to do. “He caught changing views of the ground covered with men who were all running like pursued imps and yelling”. “There was a revelation. He too threw down his gun and fled. There was no shame in his face”. “He ran like a rabbit.” “They seemed to be patting them on the back and encouraging them with words”. The other soldiers were happy about not staying and about running. In his head he made running away and being a coward okay because in his point of view it was self-preservation. If he would have died where would the army be? He didn’t want to die for nothing and pretends he was acting smart by running. He did it out of fear for survival and to save the army. His conscience was making up for the wrongs he did by covering it up with other things. It would have been different if the other soldiers didn’t put things in his head. He is young and young people usually follow others so to him it was okay to follow the soldiers that were running. Henry runs from the second battle because of the other soldiers peer pressure and influencing him to

When I was younger i would show i was daring by kinda getting on people's nerves. I wouldn't start anything but if someone said anything mean or I didn't like i was quick to respond and sometimes i would push it but not to much. This connects to the two characters in the two stories. It all shows that people are daring at one point sometime in life. The characters Alex and the IRA Sniper are daring because they both do things that most people wouldn't do.

In the Sniper, the man killed his opponent unaware that it was his own brother. I can't imagine his reaction to this tragedy. But sadly this comes with his job, he needs to kill people that get in his way. I think he would be in shock and fear of what he as done. He killed his own brother in cold blood. That is a scary thing to see and go through in war. Just the fact of going to war is terrifying. But not knowing your sibling is the enemy you're at war with is worse. The things he has seen already in war, then seeing his dead brother. He also just killed an old lady.

War causes people to fight and kill their countrymen without hesitation. The sniper is not used to killing people, but he has to what he has to do, to survive. The story shows how a civil war can make brothers enemies. In “The Sniper”, Liam O'Flaherty suggests the horror of war, not only by presenting its physical danger, but also by showing its psychological effect.

My Land of Stories topic is Bravery. In my opinion 80 percent of the book tells you about some brave feat they are trying to accomplish and do! Now i’m pretty sure many of my classmates will do their essay on Bravery. So I will have to put in my all! Numerous times in the book Alex and Conner do something that was brave so I have reason they believe that there’s some other motive to their actions do to the fact in their world Alex was very shy and was not a very brave person, In their world, Connor was slightly crazy but he was not stupid so was the sudden burst of bravery only just so they could go home or was it because they felt a otherwordly pulling to be brave? Why were they so brave? And why did they do all this?

The Development of Major Characters in Alistair Maclean Novels British author Alistair Maclean once declared, “We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he is too brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.” Throughout his novels, The Guns of Navarone, River of Death, Break Heart Pass, Maclean puts his characters through a grueling set of challenges, which they must face with bravery and intellect. Bravery is a recurring concept in MacLean’s novels. Yet, Maclean places more emphasis on how the character develops through these conflicts. The conflicts that Maclean displays are physically, as well as mentally straining. Due to the arduous struggles that

He remembers taking a hit for another soldier, so then he could fight another day.