Liam O Flaherty's The Sniper

Good authors can create wonderful stories, but it all starts with the setting. Without the setting, the story will have no plot and the characters will have no reason to be there because the setting is a crucial element. Barry Callaghan, the author of “Our Thirteenth Summer” can effectively use setting as an important part of a story. The setting of “Our Thirteenth Summer” is in Toronto’s Annex District during the 1840’s, when the Holocaust was occurring. The setting influences the behaviour of the characters and reflects the society in which the characters live.

American Sniper by Chris Kyle, is one of the most accurate depictions of the life in special

From “The Other America,” in Major Problems by Michael Harrington is a document that tells of the poverty present in America that is often skillfully and unintentionally concealed and also speaks of Lyndon Johnson’s war on poverty and briefly of how poverty rose during the Reagan administration. After Johnson’s declaration of war on poverty, there was significant change regarding the climate of the social, economic, and political in the America of those times. And while Johnson’s countless social programs helped decrease poverty immensely, it also left a huge number drowning in it still. Later Reagan’s administration would cite George Gilder on the fact that welfare did not reduce poverty but increase it to explain why the levels of poverty rose during the first few months of Reagan’s administration. Democrats and liberals would argue against this and say that poverty

Love, an intense feeling of deep affection. loving someone so much, willing to do anything to make that person or place. Perseverance, Steadfastness in doing something despite difficulty or delay in achieving success. The movie of American Sniper was based off of a true story of Chris Kyle. Chris Kyle Joined the Navy Seals leaving his wife and kids to protect his country. Throughout the movie it shows how being faithful and perseverance plays a big role in the world we are living in. Based on the complexity and actions of the characters, imagery, symbolism and the angles the camera took, the movie, “ American Sniper” illuminates and emcopasses a theme of Love and Perseverance.

Murder is a reprobate action that is an inevitable part of war. It forces humans into immoral acts, which can manifest in the forms such as shooting or close combat. The life of a soldier is ultimately decided from the killer, whether or not he follows through with his actions. In the short stories The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty and Just Lather, That's All by Hernando Téllez, the killer must decide the fate of their victims under circumstantial constraints. The two story explore the difference between killing at a close proximity compared to killing at a distance, and how they affect the killer's final decision.

In the Yummy: The Last Days of a Southside Shorty by G. Neri and illustrated by Randy DuBurke

Stephan Rabe is a excellent writer and a vey reliable source. He has been studying the impact of the cold war in the west for a very long time. In the book The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin, the author does a phenomenal job in contextualizing how the US intervenes in the Latin American world before and after the cold war. He gives a deeper understand to what happened during the war between the US and Soviet Russia at the time.

Every Story has geography, no matter if it is set in outer space or revolutionary France there is always geography and it will steer the course and structure of its story. When telling a story of a grand adventure and its obstacles it would not completely be based in a jail cell, or even a story of a poet’s uprising wouldn’t be set in prehistoric times where literacy has not even been thought of. If a story is to be told right it must be placed right. Questions about a story of who, what, how, when, are not as important as the question of where. Writers use geography to compose stories through pre existing thoughts and influences of those areas to develop their text, select characters in The Crucible develop in response to the geography and setting, and finally geography has an influence on me because it shapes our opinion and generally accepted actions.

The United States was full of prosperity in the 1950s. The standard of living was higher that it had been in years, and many people were living in luxury. Although there were many who were enjoying the lives they lived, there were also many Americans who were trapped living well below the standard of living. Michael Harrington shed light on this situation when he published The Other America in 1962. In his expose’, Harrington exposed how 40 to 50 million American citizens were living in poverty, and that to most Americans these people were invisible. He expressed how the lifestyle of people living in poverty was so different from those who were not that it created a “culture” of poverty. Harrington believed

Have you ever wondered why an author chooses a certain time and place in his or her novel? You may ask, why would he/she choose this time in war or why this time in rebuilding? An author that uses setting to support the theme very well as Ernest Hemingway in his short story "Christmas 1910". The setting of "Christmas 1910'' is in the Great Plains. At that time there were not many people living there, only a few went to a farm and have a more peaceful life away from the cities and people. Hemingway uses this setting to convey his theme in his novel, which is loneliness. Which makes sense because, in the vast Great Plains, all there was at the time was land, farms, and a little town far away. Which to some people, it can get very lonely, such as the main character Abby. On page 26 Hemingway shows her loneliness by writing, “John Marsh wasn't looking at me anymore, though I fancied it was something he was struggling to control.". Another supportive quote of her loneliness is on page 31 when Hemingway wrote, “trying to send some brain waves to this outsized boy...". Finally, another big sign of Abby’s' loneliness is when Hemingway wrote, "Right away my vanity was kicking up. I was glad this young man, who had a long, lank, handsome face, a little like Sam actually, had settled himself at our nicest household possession, which was this table. And I hoped he understood the meaning of the blue tarpaper on our walls." (Hemingway 23). What all these quotes show is Abby’s'

The man was bleeding, but the officer helped him across the finish line. Officer John McCain did not stop helping Robert McCoy until they both made it across the finish line. Officer McCain has described the moment when he first met Robert.

Contradiction in the mind, we struggle between decisions. Whether it is correct or not, it leaves an indelible memory. In Tim O'Brien's confessional writing, Ambush, he creates a flashback and recalls his memory in Vietnam. With detail descriptions, Tim O'Brien expresses his guilt towards killing an innocent young man. Furthermore, reinforcing his opposition against war with the writing.

In Richard Adam’s Watership Down, the setting is a prominent element throughout the novel. It is used to convey the mood of the scene. One example is in the very beginning, when Fiver has lost himself to a fit of terror. His brother, Hazel, is desperate to figure out what is going on. “The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood… only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed… The May sunset was red in the clouds, and there was still a half an hour to twilight… ‘I don’t know what it is,’ answered Fiver wretchedly… ‘But it’s coming - it’s coming. Oh, Hazel, look! The field! It’s covered with blood!’… ‘Fiver, you can’t sit crying here. Anyway. It’s getting dark…’ (3-7). According to Fiver, the danger is looming and coming closer and closer.

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.” - Ernest Hemingway.

The novel "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood is a short story about Iris Chase Griffen and how she starts writing the story of her life for her granddaughter during the time of World War I. She tells the story with scenes from her present life as well as many flashbacks throughout her life. In the story, the protagonist, Iris Chase Griffen, has difficulty with the death of her sister, her unhappy marriage to her husband and her affair with Alex. During the story, she encounters her sister’s journals and ultimately learns that her husband, Richard was raping her sister Laura. Literature is to be known to have an emotional impact on the reader and this novel by Margaret Atwood is no different. There are several conflicts in this work, and they all help to convey themes of human nature vs. society and herself.