Liam O Flaherty The Sniper

War is something we bluff off if we haven't experienced it. Did you know that 378,000 family members or lost a year. This means that more than 200,000 families are deep sorrow each year. This short story will tell you about what civil war can be like. a sniper who is on a roof in his country, gets shot, and has to clean up his wound in the middle of a war. He then takes a shot at someone, killing the foe. Under fire, he darts over to the other roof where he killed the guy. So, he later realizes It is his brother. The short story “The Sniper” by Liam o’ Flaherly shows how war can tear apart families.

There are two types of people that fight in wars; those who consider their patriotic duty an honor and those who entered the war by force. In 1990, twenty years after returning from the Vietnam War, Tim O’Brien published The Things They Carried, a disturbing and remorseful collection of short stories that gives detailed, yet fictional, accounts of the horrific events that occurred during the war. Later in 2012, after his tour of duty, Chris Kyle released American Sniper, a humble and passionate memoir that describes what Kyle had to face during his tour. While The Things They Carried utilizes symbolism and similes to inform the reader about the horrors of war, American Sniper uses flashbacks and imagery to demonstrate that some people “come alive” during the war.

In this suspenseful short story, “The Sniper”, by Liam O’Flaherty, two snipers from opposing sides are fighting against each other. Set during the Irish Civil War, this story includes a Republican Sniper and a Free State Sniper, from opposite sides of the war. The suspense in this story is built through multiple ways using pacing and timing. The author, Liam O’Flaherty uses timing and order of events together to create a lot of suspense throughout “The Sniper”.

This essay will begin by examining the importance of O’Flaherty’s description of the setting in his short story “The Sniper”, and how his description of the setting emphasizes the reality of war. From the beginning of the story, O’Flaherty portrays a dark and dull setting of war. “Dublin lay enveloped in darkness but for the dim light of the moon that shone through fleecy clouds, casting a pale light as of approaching dawn over the streets and the dark waters of the Liffey.” (O’Flaherty) In this passage, O’Flaherty describes the setting of a simple street in Dublin at dawn. This creates a dreary tale to read. The setting in this short story emphasizes how tedious war can really be and how sometimes there can be no action for a long period of time. Usually, when there are wars in movies or novels, the plot does not focus on the

Most people agree that a soldier is still a human when at war. O’Flaherty, however, may say that war turns humans into soldiers that kill without remorse until they have realized they just took human lives. Furthermore, O’Flaherty depicts said soldiers as having little regard for human beings. Using irony and foreshadowing in his short story “The Sniper” O’Flaherty shows that war turns a person into an unpredictable soldier that views people as objects.

The sniper was scared to shoot the other person. “He was frightened back to his sense but the shock. His nerves strayed,the cloud of fear scattered from his mind and he laughed.” Being a sniper you are supposed to be able to not show emotion, but the sniper did. He was somewhat nervous and maybe scared, but then he build up the courage to fire. He fired and all signs of emotions and fear vanished it was

This story follows a sniper and his fight to survive a day in the Irish civil war. The setting takes place in Dublin, Ireland around the battle of the Four Courts, which does take place in history. The sniper, settled on a rooftop, tries to relax, but soon fights for his life against an armored car and more importantly against another sniper. In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, symbolism and figurative language exemplify that civil war divides a whole country, not just any one group of people or soldiers.

‘The sniper’ by Liam O’Flaherty is about a young man in wartime sharing a scene of concentration and reflection in the context of a guerrilla war. The story reflects the tragedies of war, taking and affecting the lives of many. The fiction based short story explores the civil war, taking place in Dublin. The protagonist, a young Republican sniper, hiding on a roof-top watching and waiting with anticipation. The war is between the Republicans and Free Staters.

Flaherty's, “The Sniper” represents the pain, physically and mentally war inflicts on a soldier. The short story takes place at night in Dublin, Ireland at night, during the Irish Civil War. There are two sides that divide Ireland in half. They are the Free-Staters and the Republicans. The story starts with the Republican sniper eating on a rooftop. He decides he wants to light a cigaret even though it might be risky. As soon as he lights the match he hears gunshots and hides. He looks up and the enemy across the street fires at his head, the sniper dodges it. Then, an enemy car rolls down the street. A woman comes down to the car to tell them where the Republican sniper is. The man opens the turret of the car and the sniper immediately shoots

War can have many extremely harmful effects on nations and the citizens of those nations. Civil War, however, can have especially harmful effects on families. For example, in Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper”, O’Flaherty uses diction, imagery, and an internal conflict within the main character to convey the harmful side effects of civil war on people and families. O’Flaherty’s use of imagery in “The Sniper” conveys the harmful effects of war on people by presenting the audience with images of death. In the story, the sniper waits on top of a building for his targets to arrive.

“The Sniper", in my opinion, is about how ruthless and cunning a war is, especially civil wars, such as the civil war that took place in Ireland that this story focuses on. I say this because this story portrayed a sniper that eventually killed an old woman and even his brother. Not only this, but in the process of killing his brother he even faked his own death to trick him. In the book the main character, the sniper, shows a severe feeling of guilt, which points even more to main of idea how awful war is.

The snipers Journey in war was necessary to discovering that war pushes people to enforce brutality and violence on themselves and those they fight against, having no opportunity to shine compassion on one another. War kills innocent lives and tears apart families leaving only the feeling of hate, anger, and grief.

The short story “The Sniper,” by Liam O'Flaherty uses irony and characterization to show that in a civil war, no matter who wins, everyone loses in the end. The short story “The Sniper,” by Liam O'Flaherty, revels that in a civil war, no matter which side wins, everyone loses in the end through characterization. Towards the conclusion of the story,

“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.” The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty is a short story set during the early weeks of the Irish Civil War. The Sniper, a Republican, is the main character in this short story.

"The Sniper" places a strong emphasis on the evils of war, and yet paints a vivid image of mankind's qualities and their society. Employing the technique of describing one particular sniper to symbolise a general subject, readers are able to gain a deep insight into the evils of war. In this story, the assembly of setting, contrasting characters and themes of fanaticism and division of loyalties are vital to conveying the horror of war. On the other hand, "The Sniper" also discusses the power of war, depicting it as the decider of life and death for men. Its force is further emphasised when neighbours are turned into enemies under war's influence.