The Sniper Essay

Sort By:
Page 6 of 50 - About 500 essays
  • Good Essays

    Crooked Arrows Crooked Arrows is a 21st century film which embodies cultural resilience throughout the film. The team utilized culture, heritage, and longstanding traditional values to help overcome adversity and defeat poor self-esteem, to turn their lacrosse season around by going back to their roots. Within the film Crooked Arrows, it depicts a Native American prep school lacrosse team in New York, which struggle not only on the field but also off the field. The on the field struggle quite simply

    • 1732 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Sniper

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages

    have been fighting the urges no matter how bad they get so that makes me a fighter. Alex from “Perfect Chemistry” and The Sniper from “The Sniper” are fighters because Alex put love before friends and The Sniper is a fighter

    • 1002 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    The Sniper

    • 740 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The sniper is a short story written by Liam O’flaherty set in the time of the Irish civil war. Two brothers unknowingly have different ideas of the war and each go on to divergent sides (Republican and free state). The republican sniper extirpates two enemy targets up until he was shot in the arm by a free state sniper. He was inadequate to use his sniper so he creates an elaborate plan to escape and kills the free state sniper with his revolver. Once he killed him, he began to fade away into the

    • 740 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Good Essays

    The Sniper

    • 1344 Words
    • 6 Pages

    respective texts, The Sniper and The Freedom of the City, Liam O’Flaherty and Brian Friel call for peace from this war by arguing that it is futile. Both authors communicate this common message to their audiences through the utilisation of the same stylistic techniques including structure, characterisation, and motif. However, the exact manner in which each technique is used or presented differs between the texts. While the structures of the Freedom of the City and The Sniper are contrasting, they

    • 1344 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    your best friend to jail. The Sniper and Cranes have characters that perform these terrible tasks because of situations and problems during their country’s civil war. The sniper accidently shoots his brother while fighting for his beliefs and killing whoever was shooting at him. Sam decides to escort his childhood playmate Tokchae to find out was he did wrong. The story has many similarities and differences throughout the stories. The story Cranes and the story The Sniper have many concepts that cause

    • 1182 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Decent Essays

    he had gruesome experiences that impacted him to become a misanthropist. The event that really affected him mentally was the killing of the German sniper. The sniper showed Robert and his men mercy and decided to let them go back to the base. As Robert was going, he saw that the sniper was moving and Robert killed him. Robert realized that the sniper was reaching for his binoculars. Thus, Robert killed a benevolent guy that was going to let them live. Furthermore, this killing affected Robert physiologically

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    believe love to be voluntary. Is it? Both “The Sniper,” by Liam O’Flaherty and “The Sonnet Ballad,” by Gwendolyn Brooks explore this idea using symbols and imagery as support. In “The Sniper” a soldier tries to abandon his love for his brother during war while in “The Sonnet Ballad” a woman's lover is sent to war where he faces death. Though both works discuss different subjects, they both include the death or loss of someone they loved. In “The Sniper” love is locked and sheltered from the harsh

    • 1102 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    how you can handle difficult situations. The characters of the sniper from”The sniper,” and alex from Lockdown show determination through their action and their thoughts. In the story “The sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty,the sniper show determination through making hard decisions and keep going even if he get injured. One example of how the sniper show he is determined is that even though he got shot he was determined to kill the enemy sniper. The quote that show this is when he say’s “im hit”.(Liam O'Flaherty

    • 788 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Intelligence can be shown in many different ways, including plans, and grades. Two characters I read about shared this trait, Hanna Mendel from Playing for the commandant by Suzy Zail and the IRA sniper from “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty. Hanna Mendel and the IRA sniper are both intelligent because the sniper is able to think quickly of a plan that will save his life and Hanna uses her intelligence to get good grades in school, and to avoid being shot. Hanna is intelligent because she was a straight

    • 739 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Better Essays

    area leaving ten individuals dead and three wounded over a period of 23 days. A major break from the situation came out of the blue from the sniper themselves. On October 17, 2002 a mysterious caller ensuring to be the sniper boasted that he was responsible for the murder of two women during the robbery of a liquor store in Montgomery, Alabama, following a month. Examiners soon found that a crime like the one depicted in the call

    • 1027 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays