The Sniper 5 Paragraph Essay

“The Sniper”, the author creates suspense by having an increase in pacing, through the words in the story, decreasing/slowing down is used through words like “still, and paused” Finally, he creates suspense by having back to back rapid conflicts, The suspense is created by Liam O’Flaherty, who is the author of this short story suspense.

Why do we engage in war? Is there ever a significant outcome?Just like the Korean War, the story Interlopers by Saki, share similar themes and outcomes. In the Interlopers, the author Saki conveys a theme of don’t waste your life on engaging in hatred cause death will follow, using the literary techniques of situational irony, imagery, and foreshadowing.

In the story, The Sniper, Liam O'Flaherty describes a sniper in war. The young men who are snipers seem young and naive, but their eyes were very much different. “They were deep and thoughtful. They eyes of a man who is used to looking at death” (O’ Flaherty). War makes soldiers become senseless to killing. It makes them kill anything- or anyone that poses as a threat. The young sniper who is watching to kill sees a young women who points him out. He quickly exterminates her and the person she was talking to. He didn't have specific orders to kill her. He just did it because she acted like a threat to him. That alters the sniper at a moral level by making them lose their normal morals and they begin to see everything a a target or a threat. War is a curse because it makes soldiers become senseless to

A significant message also found in Ambush by Tim O’Brien, is that war brings out the worst in people. While at home, the average human does not think about killing or rather even do the killing. War however, is an entirely different

War is it really worth fighting ? In the story ” the sniper ‘by: Liam O ’ Flaherty read about a sniper who is fighting in a civil war inside of Ireland. In the story they talk about how the sniper was in battle with an enemy. The theme of this selection is people are seen as more objects in war.

“The Sniper”, is an action thriller about a sniper in the Irish republic, a man who is fighting for freedom, or, as stated in the story, “A man who is used to looking into the eyes death”(O’Flaharty 1). He is fighting for his life, this is life or death, little did he know who was fighting on the other side. This story is very suspenseful, and I will tell you what makes suspense so intriguing to us readers.

War is a place where deaths, and unimaginable tragedies happen. If you speak to anyone who has been part of a war, they most likely do not enjoy reminiscing and telling stories of it. That is because war is a traumatic place, where the things soldiers see is so awful, that it should not be repeated. In the short story “Ambush” by Tim O’Brien, man’s young daughter knew her dad served in the army, this knowledge sparked her curiosity. This curiosity led her to ask her dad if he has killed anyone, he denies doing anything of that sort. The story is him telling her the truth when she is older of what actually happened. There are three messages that can be derived from Tim O’Brien’s short story “Ambush” death is awful, and traumatic, also that death is sometimes necessary, finally war changes people.

When someone thinks of war they do not think of sunsets and rainbows, they think of death and destruction. The propaganda surrounding war however, tries to make civilians think war is an amazing place. In Stephen Crane’s poem, “War Is Kind,” Crane tells the horrors of war, but then says it is okay because war is kind. Crane makes the reading think about how all this horrible things happen, but yet the media still tries to say war is safe and the military is a great place to make money and travel the world. The media does not tell you the consequences of war, just tries to sell you on the positives.

"The Man He Killed" by Thomas Hardy features an ex-soldier that is contemplating and thinking back upon a time when they took another soldier's life. In the poem, the narrator states that if the two had met in a bar they would have been good friends and shared a drink, but enlisting in war required them to meet in battle, leading to one of them being brutally killed. In the process of analyzing the situation, the narrator states, "I shot him dead because - / because he was my foe," (Hardy, 9-10). To put the poem in context, Thomas Hardy wrote his poem during the time of the Boer War, a horrendous battle fought between the British Empire and South Africa over South Africa no longer wanting to be unjustly controlled by the British (Shmoop Editorial

“Human Darkness” is an article in the New York times about the legacies of war and human suffering. The article, talks about the violence of the past and how we can use the past experiences to better understand the future. Violence has a way of destroying a person’s life. Violence can effect a person memory by causing suppression of the mind and destroy many custom and beliefs of a person. Violent is the plight of many refugees. However, education is the most effective counterterrorist strategies the is violence. Violators are encouraged to speak up against their oppressors and in spite of human nature we are capable to resist violence

Someone once said, “We might be the master of our own thoughts, still we are the slaves of our own emotions.” This means that people can control what they think or say but, they can not control their emotions. The short story, “The Sniper” deals with emotion and war. After the sniper shoots someone he feels hatred toward the war. When sees the enemy falling he is filled with deep regret and guilt. The sniper begins to curse out the war and himself for shooting that person.

“We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves (Albert Camus’ The Way Of Zen).” Every year, over 180,000 U.S citizens enlist in the armed forces. Of those, only a small fraction return home from war alive. Thousands of families await the fate of hearing their loved one has died, when the absence of that war would change everything. Wars upon wars have been fought over time, killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Each war fought brings yet another problem to develop, resulting in a perpetual delusion that the next will be the last. Yet when faced with the upright facts of these conflicts, it is as clear as daylight that they are unnecessary.

All across the world, countries are drowning in the acts of warfare. Citizens residing in unescapable conditions due to war are suffering and likely calling out to other nations for help. It is proven that fighting violence with more violence does not draw a solution. The question of war being morally justifiable is one most easily answered by ancient and modern philosophers: it is not. For war induces a great deal of all those involved, promotes unnecessary violence, and overall it prevents the expansion of the human race.

Imagine being in your mid 20’s and having to leave your whole life behind to go fight in a questionable war, to be a soldier on behalf of unknown people. Imagine having to go into combat each instance knowing that death awaits the soldier who makes a mistake. Imagine what it must feel like to see the blood of your friends, your enemies and even that of your brother spilt in front of your very own eyes. Visualize having to spend days and hours in camps doing nothing but waiting and plotting to kill an enemy who is just as determined to kill to save his life as much as you are determined to kill him to save your own. In war, Death stands near, waiting to consume and rid this world of any soldier at any give time. The themes running through “THE

War is an event that not many people experience directly. At the same time, too many people have endured the perils of war. War is not only a physical battlefield, but a mental and emotional one as well. Many soldiers are forced to kill individuals they might have been friends with in different circumstances. Those same soldiers are forgotten, or expected to be proud of the things that they did and experienced that will haunt them for the rest of their life. Three poems describe these circumstances very well. They include “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy, “Grass” by Carl Sandburg, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen.