How Does Liam O Flaherty Create Suspense In The Sniper

* The author creates suspense by starting with the slow beginning and then making the story faster and more attention-grabbing. The author cleverly manipulates readers sense of disbelief by eliminating the possibility of police help or parental understanding. The author reveals the serial killer to the reader at the end of the story. By that time Duncan keeps searching him. Author slowly reveals the clues out of the lost journal of serial killer to make readers focus in the story. Also with the slowly

Another technique Tellez uses to add suspense into his story is setting time constraints on the barber which pressures him to decide to kill the captain, if necessary. When the barber is deciding whether or not to kill the captain he realizes, “the soap is drying and he needs to hurry”(Tellez 2) which pressurizes the barber to act quickly and adds suspense to his decision. As the barber realize he only has minutes to take a decision it creates suspense by keeping readers guessing what will happen next. This helps build the theme that you should always think before you act. As the author mentions the theme in the story he uses suspense to make sure that readers understand the theme

The first way the author creates suspense in the story is by foreshadowing. When Captain Torres walked into the barber’s shop, the barber, “Started to shake,” (Tellez 1) indicating that the barber felt instant fear, when his enemy approached. This foreshadows that the barber knows the man and that he will be deciding to kill him or not. Foreshadowing creates suspense because it is a clue given to the reader. It is the reader’s job to guess what is going to happen in the story and that is what makes it interesting. Without foreshadowing the reader won’t be able to prepare what is going to happen next. Another scene where the foreshadowing technique is used was when the barber came up with his reasons to not kill Captain Torres. The barber contemplated in his mind, “Don’t want to stain myself with blood. Just lather, and nothing else,” (Tellez 2) which foreshadows that the barber is not going to commit murder.

In the anti-war short story "The Sniper" written by Liam O Flaherty, a Republican sniper embraces his rifle and conceals on the roof top without a sound, waiting to kill his enemies. The sniper accidentally gives away his location when he lights up a cigarette and exposes himself to the enemy sniper on the opposite roof. The two snipers from two conflicting sides then faces each other off through an innovative war; using both their shooting skills and intelligence. Subsequently, the Republican 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 Republican sniper decides to identify the enemy sniper's face; he slowly turns the dead body around and finds

     The Sniper had much suspense in it each passing sentence got you more on the eadge of your seat. The biggist suspense scene was when the sniper made the enemy think he was dead, and waiting for the enemy to come up and see his kill. Then after the sniper

Unfolding suspense sitting on the edge of your seat. The tension is escalating. Don’t go in there, we think to ourselves, run girl run, go the other way, he is going to kill you! This gives us

Suspense comes from the reader being in a state of anxiety, worrying about whether the protagonist will overcome his or her flaws and conflicts, from the beginning to the end of The Most Dangerous Game the author Richard Connell used this writing technique to hook the reader. During a short story the suspense starts when you ask yourself “Will the protagonist be ok” in The Most Dangerous Game this is when Rainsford the protagonist falls off of his boat and gradually builds through the conflict until the climax. An exemplary quote showing what I have stated above is “ I want the ideal animal to hunt... Hunting? Good God general Zaroff, what you speak of is murder.”

The writer must know what information to dole out and what to withhold. It’s the withholding of information that creates suspense, but the writer must also play fair with the reader. Give the reader enough to form educated guesses about what comes next.

The story takes place during the civil war in Ireland. The sniper is isolated and the time of day is twilight. We don’t have a lot of information about what is going on during the story. The story is being told by a third person so the reader can only see what the person who is telling the story sees and feel. The mood that is set in the story also adds to the suspense of the story.

The story the sniper is a suspenseful short story written by Liam O'Flaherty. The story is about a republican sniper that has the face of a scholar that is involved in the Irish civil war. The story the sniper uses suspenseful phrases such as hurriedly, immediately, suddenly, and slowly to describe the pace of the story. The thesis of The Sniper is that the story uses timing to create suspense.

For instance, in The Masque of the Red Death, “The dreams are… as they depart.” (Poe 99-102), there are dashes representing an abrupt change in thought or the sequence of events. Since the plot is pressing on in a rather quick fashion, the reader is drawn in closer, instilling suspense. The tension that is created from accelerated idea changes, is exactly what Stephen King was describing. The door creates a great deal of suspense, just like a rapid pace change. A quote depicting the same idea in Skeleton is, “M. Munigant, then… M. Munigant was okay, okay.” (Bradbury 37). Mr. Harris’ mind is racing trying to find a solution to his illness. He is struggling to stop his aches and pains. The story starts out with a calm and smooth pace, but it still grabs the reader’s attention. During these two paragraphs, the pace is changed to a frantic one that almost makes the reader sweat. The frenzied pace change in the two stories generates suspense that is similar to the suspense that is set up by the door.

At times, the pacing of the events tacking place becomes stagnant and detracts from the overall flow of the story. Even during battle scenes, the author seems to be overly concerned with the strategic planning of the attack and most of the events are only depicts through second-hand debriefings, which drains most of the suspense from these events. Furthermore, throughout the first half of the novel, none of the group members ever seems to be in any real danger during these encounters, leaving the series of fights with looters and bandits to become repetitive.

The Sniper has more suspense because it has at least three conflicts, were as the Flowers has only two conflicts. The Sniper has at least three pieces of suspense, when he lit the cigarette, when he had to kill the enemy with a revolver, and when he found out he had killed his brother. The Flowers has only two pieces when Myop found the dead body, also when she found out the dead man had been hung. If a story has one conflict to lead up to, it will not have as much suspense as a story that has multiple conflicts. The Flowers only has about two pieces of suspense in the story. When Myop first steps on the skull and the text says, “It was then she stepped smack into his eyes.” Additionally, when she finds out he had been hung the text says, “she

He hesitation or decision-making issue within the characters’ mind is regarded as a suspense. In “Just Lather, That’s All ," the barber struggled with whether or not to kill the enemy who now infront of him. In the end, the barber did not want blood on his hand. Meanwhile, in “The sniper," two snipers who were from different sides fought against each other in a war. While examining the corpse, the sniper discovered that the enemy was his brother. Also “The Black Cat” narrates the process of the protagonist from normal to committing a crime step-by-step. Internal conflict moves the story’s plot, thought the short stories “Just Lather, That's All”, “The Sniper” and “The Black Cat” respectively.

Marquez reveals the main plot point in the first sentence of the novella, which acts like a headline and affects the method of maintaining suspense. The novella opens: “On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on” (Marquez 3). The first sentence reveals mimics journalistic headlines which point out the main event, of which the rest of the article expands on through the details. Consequently, suspense is created through the divulsion of connected details and how the events