Liam O 'Flaherty's Short Story The Sniper'

An author’s main goal is to have the reader intrigued by the text with suspenseful and/or dramatic scenes happening throughout the story. The authors of all three stories (“The Sniper”, “Ambush”, and “The Trip”) all portray this expectation flawlessly. Even though the stories have a great chronological order with amazing characters, they also share similar themes and subjects. The following reasons explain why.

‘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.

War is something that can change the very principles of a person, it can change a person and leave multiple effects that can last for their entire life. The sniper is fighting in a civil war where friends and family can turn into enemies at a moment's notice. The fight is between the Republicans and the Free Staters, the protagonist is a sniper for the Republicans. Throughout the story, we go into the state of mind of the main character and learn some ramifications that he gained in the war. The text, “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty shows us the physical and psychological results of war, that happens to people.

In the story The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty is about a Republican sniper watching over Dublin, Ireland. The story is set in the Irish Civil War. The author uses mood and foreshadowing to show and tell that war tears families apart.

When someone first enlists in the war, they are fresh,new, and ready to fight for their country. As the years go by, war breaks the soldiers down and turns them into rugged, motionless men. The generals mold them into killers with no feelings and only designed to kill without content. This is true in The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty. The theme of war brings out the worst in people turning them into monsters is developed through three types of conflict: man vs man, man vs himself, man vs circumstances.

The Sniper, written by Liam O’Flaherty, is a story about a Republican sniper in the Irish civil war in 1922. This story tells of a night spent on a roof looking for the enemy, the Free-Staters. In this short description of the nights events, the sniper kills 3 people; a soldier, an informer, and finally an enemy sniper on the roof across the road from him. In the end this enemy sniper turns out to be the republicans brother. This story shows the the specific characteristics a sniper must have to carry out their duty. A key moment in this text which influenced the sniper is the Civil war itself.

War can destroy a man both in body and mind for the rest of his life. In “The Sniper,” Liam O’Flaherty suggests the horror of war not only by presenting its physical dangers, but also by showing its psychological effects. We are left to wonder which has the longer lasting effect—the visible physical scars or the ones on the inside?

First of all I was in my dark room with the only light being my t.v, I playing Xbox with my friend Skylar, we were playing Rainbow Six Siege a counter terrorism shooter. It was a late on a dark, stormy night, it was bomb objective and only I was left on the team to face five other enemies defusing the bomb and I slowly and stealthy with his silenced pistol picked off about two enemies outside the objective roaming and then pulled out his primary the 416-C Assault Rifle and went in blazing in the objective and his heart was racing he picked off another two enemies and that’s when he began guarding the defuser waiting to find the last enemy. “Can you search cams Skylar?” I asked Skylar.

Before I did though, I wanted to find Spy’s body and bring him back home. He deserved that much. I was careful in re-tracing my steps as I had no idea if I’d run into the enemy, despite the battle seeming over. I found the dead-end once again however his body was no- where in site. I knew this was the place, I saw a stained pool of blood that lingered on the ground, that would linger in my mind.

Liam O’Flaherty in his story “The Sniper”, describing the point of view of an Irish soldier, in the battle of Dublin, during the Irish civil war. In the beginning of his story , he uses imagery when he writes,”The long June twilight faded into the night,”and in the end he uses the diction tone of emotion,”Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face”. Flaherty’s imagery and emotional diction creates a close distance between the reader and narrator, so close that the reader feels like a guardian angel viewing over the narrator’s shoulder, viewing what has happened. The relationship between the narrator and reader, appeals to the point of view of the main character, who the author is trying to provide an understanding

An experienced soldier needs training in many fields to be successful. Being trained in many fields making the soldier experience gives them an advantage against the other soldiers that have little to no training at all. Also having training can relate to other people due to sports and how the training there is grueling so the person can be the best at it. It can be argued that the protagonist is characterized as experienced due to his survival and combat training which is required to be successful in the field in the short story “The Sniper”, by Liam O’Flaherty. Being trained in survival skills is necessary for success.

Liam O'Flaherty's nonfiction story, “Sniper,” takes place in Dublin, Ireland in 1922. The sniper in is positioned on a roof of a building looking for enemies to shoot down. When he did his job he was ashamed of what he had done. Liam O’Flaherty uses the theme treat every person with dignity, and the craft moves that he used imagery and short choppy sentences to make the story better and more suspenseful. In the story Sniper there are many themes, but the one theme that stands out the most was treat every person with dignity.

In “The Sniper” the theme is that war can make you do things you didn’t think you could do. In the story this was the beginning of the Irish civil war (1923). This was the battle of Dublin, which meant a series of street fights. So everywhere you go in the streets it’ll be several people out fighting and dead body’s scattered on the roads and on the sidewalks. It’s a fact according to the author.

In The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty The republicans and free staters are in civil war , and he ( the main character) tries to fight them off , and kills them and fighting them off , and he accidentally killed his brother. There is a war against Republicans and the free staters , and one guy is doing his best to win , and he shoots the snipers and he gets hit in the arm , and he cut it off , and then a lady saw him and started yelling and he had to shoot her . Then when he got most of the people he ran over and saw someone else and shot them , and he turned the body over and it was his brother . War isn’t safe and lots of people can get hurt .

About 12 to 15 soldiers and policemen and two security men. They blindfolded me, tied my hands with plastic, and put me on the kitchen floor...he told me to sit in a small chair. He tied my hands very tight, my left hand to an iron bar or pipe ad my right hand to the back of the chair”(103-105). We associate a home as being a safe place and when homes are invaded, destroyed, and now considered “public spaces”, we no longer have a safe