Suspense In The Sniper

U.S. Navy SEAL ,Chris Kyle was just the average die hard Texan. He aspired to become a cowboy, but it wasn’t working out in his favor. After seeing the horrors of terrorism on 9/11 he was ready to fight for his country and enlisted into the military. He goes on to fight in four tours and becomes the deadliest sniper in American history. After each tour, he felt that he had to go back. He had two goals that he couldn’t give up on; protecting his team and taking out the deadliest enemy sniper, Mustafa. Chris would not stop until he achieved his goals, when he finally did, he faced a new battle. He struggled with normal daily life, but even then he persevered and found a new passion to aid him. Throughout this film, Clint Eastwood portrays the theme of perseverance through the use of setting, camera angles, and the main character Chris Kyle.

“The Interlopers” and “The Sniper” are two thrilling stories that captivate your attention by adding the right amount of wits and feelings, to the right amount of action and adventure. In these stories, two men, both unaware of the other’s true personality and character, yearn the destruction of the other. “The Interlopers” and “The Sniper” are two stories that have both similarities and differences in the conflicts of the plot, moral values in the theme, and irony of the unexpected twists of the two stories.

Symbolism is also used in “The Sniper” to represent a possible theme. Liam O’Flaherty uses a street between the two snipers to show that a possible theme is that war separates family. The story takes place in the middle of a civil war in Ireland. The protagonist is a sniper across the street from an enemy sniper. The enemy sniper is his brother, and it is unknown until the very last sentence. By including a minor detail such as a street, the author is able to both further develop the setting by showing it as urban and let the reader pick up on a theme of the

thinks is right or a person who fights because he has to? “The Sniper” tells a story of a sniper who is in a fight between another sniper. The story takes place in Dublin Ireland and is considered Civil War. In ¨The Sniper,” Liam O’Flaherty uses diction, point of view, and plot to create a story of loss, pain , and an intense mood.

“Wars never hurt anybody except for the people who died” -Salvador Dali, leader of the Surrealist Movement. In both stories men who are at war are described, both of these men have killed a man who are known as their foes. Both of the men realize that the man they killed could've been a friend, and were someone who really wasn't the enemy. The relationship between these two stories is that war can tear families apart. In Liam O'Flaherty's “The Sniper” and “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy both show similarities and differences in plot, irony, and theme.

Between the three stories, “The Dogs Could Teach Me,” “The Flowers,” and “The Sniper.” “The Sniper” demonstrates the best suspenseful text between the three stories. To create a suspenseful story, “The Sniper” develops multiple moments of suspense. For instance one illustration of suspense in “The Sniper” is, “He paused for a moment, considering whether he should risk a smoke. It was dangerous. The flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching. He decided to take the risk.” This is a suspenseful moment in “The Sniper” because if the sniper risks to smoke, he will be giving away his position and could be shot at by the enemy's. Another representation of suspense is, “Pressing his lips together, he took a deep breath

In every story there was some kind of conflict. In the “Sniper’’ there was two snipers and they

During the times of war, lines are blurred and deaths arise where guilt has no room to wrap itself around a soldier’s head as they choose between killing and being killed. Under the summer evening and heavy artillery fire of Dublin, Ireland, a republican sniper lays waiting, in a fanatical haze, behind the parapet of a building’s roof. He decides to light a cigarette, despite the risk of exposure, and encounters an enemy sniper opposite the street from his position. Promptly after, an enemy vehicle approaches, met by an informant, who divulged the sniper’s location. Having to execute the informant and a soldier exposed in the open turret, the marksman seeks upon the rival sniper, killing him by a ruse of playing dead along with an arm shot and feebly. Following a moment of hysteria, he evades the bullets of a machine gun, throwing himself aside the corpse only to find it to be his brother. In “The Sniper”, Liam O’Flaherty suggests the

The sniper was inhaling a cigarette on a rooftop when someone launched a fire at him from the opposite side of the street. He managed to escape the shot successfully without any injury or bruises. The sniper also managed to kill two other free staters after that, one man and one woman.

The main character in The Sniper is a young man in the civil war as a sniper. The conflict in this story is that there is another sniper across the field on another rooftop, this is soon fixed by the main sniper tricking then shooting

“The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty demonstrates the best use of suspense, over the two other stories, “The Dogs Could Teach Me” by Gary Paulsen, and “The Flowers” by Alice Walker. The whole story is about a sniper waiting in anticipation of whether or not he will be the one to take a life or have his be stolen from him, the other stories don’t display the same level of heart pounding suspense that leaves the reader on the edge of their seat. For instance, in the rising of the story “The Flowers” the author says, “She had often been as far before, but the strangeness of the land made it not as pleasant as her usual haunts. It seemed gloomy in the little cove in which she found herself. The air was damp, the silence close and deep.”

In the story "The Sniper" a republican sniper is fighting in war and is being shot at by a enemy. He learns that war changes people. Just like in "Cranes" Songsam let his friend go. At the end he killed his enemy and realized it was his brother.

This story takes place in Dublin, Ireland during their civil war, and it focuses on a sniper struggling to survive in this harsh, war environment. His main threat is another sniper who has his target on him. The sniper we

A guy with a rifle crept slowly toward us. He was a sniper, too, trying to shoot the sniper on the mountain. He pointed his rifle upward and took aim. High on the mountain, we saw a flash of light, and a second later a bullet hit the leg of our sniper. (Omar 236)

This explains how this was a character vs character type of thing because they were both shooting at each other with powerful rifles, leaving one of them weak because one sniper shot the other sniper, leaving them weak. Another reason why this is a character vs character is because one of the sniper brought back up. “Just then an armoured car came across the bridge and advanced slowly up the street” (19). A strong and powerful vehicle appeared out of nowhere. “It was an enemy car” (19). One of the snipers had a team with them to take out the other sniper and the other sniper knew he couldn't do anything about it because it was an armoured car and he knows his sniper can’t do anything.