Guatemalan Civil War

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns. Or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” A quote by Abraham Lincoln. War has sacrifices and lots of deaths, but these sacrifices and deaths are what gives us our freedoms. My theme for the story The Sniper is war divides people and families. To start, my first topic is that people die during war and get divided from their families, their people, and the world. My first example is, “Then round the corner of a side street came an old woman

about it. During the time that the regiment was in camp Henry had plenty of time to think about what he was doing and why he was doing it, and during this time of isolated thinking the fear of war consumed him to a point that he wished that he would get killed in the first battle. The way he viewed the war took a dramatic change; he no longer thought of honor and glory but rather the fear of the battlefield and how he would fair in it. These thoughts first come to him when rumors spread about a fight

idea that in war, people are actually killing their brothers. This theme is portrayed through the use of irony and imagery. Initially, the author uses death imagery to emphasize the scene of the story, “with the machine gunner’s head hanging lifelessly over the turret. The woman’s corpse lay still in the gutter.” This quote gives the reader a visualization of the street in the story where everything is lifeless, silent and depressing. The significance of the quote is that due to war the sniper had

longed to see it all. His busy mind had drawn for him large pictures extravagant in color, lurid with breathless deeds” (Crane 3). Trait(s) Demonstrated: Courage, Naivety Commentary: Henry wanted to join the army because he had a romanticized idea of war, and he wanted to be a great man. This shows his courage, but also shows how young he is. Dialectical journal entry #2: Context: While the regiment is in the battle, Henry gives into his fears. He thinks

In this suspenseful short story, “The Sniper”, by Liam O’Flaherty, two snipers from opposing sides are fighting against each other. Set during the Irish Civil War, this story includes a Republican Sniper and a Free State Sniper, from opposite sides of the war. The suspense in this story is built through multiple ways using pacing and timing. The author, Liam O’Flaherty uses timing and order of events together to create a lot of suspense throughout “The Sniper”. One of the ways that the author

story follows a sniper and his fight to survive a day in the Irish civil war. The setting takes place in Dublin, Ireland around the battle of the Four Courts, which does take place in history. The sniper, settled on a rooftop, tries to relax, but soon fights for his life against an armored car and more importantly against another sniper. In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, symbolism and figurative language exemplify that civil war divides a whole country, not just any one group of people or soldiers

about war, it is a film that involves all aspects of the soldiers duty, life, family and hopes. In Isaac Guzmán’s article “When the Hero Dies at the End” he details why the film “American Sniper” is not a war film but rather it focuses on the man that Chris Kyle was. Guzman attempts to identify the experiences that service members endure change their lives in multiple fashions. Guzman references Clint Eastwood’s statement, “I guess you could call it a war film, because it’s about the war,” Eastwood

People say that war brings out the worst in people or soldiers. Liam O’Flaherty would agree with this statement. Through the use of imagery and foreshadowing in the short story “The Sniper” O’Flaherty shows that war leads to the lack of humanity in soldiers. O’Flaherty uses images of death and conflict to signify war. “The women whirled round and fell with a shriek into the gutter” The description of the woman’s death provides the reader with a clear visual on how brutal and heartless the killing

Think about if you were at war and all the actions you would do in a fight to survive and come out on top. In O’Flaherty’s “The sniper” O’Flaherty writes about a sniper in a civil war on a rooftop going head to head with another sniper and all the decisions the sniper makes to win the fight and come out on top. O’Flaherty uses irony and imagery to tell the reader that in war decisions are made to decide if you live or die and some decisions are rational and reckless. O’Flaherty uses irony in the

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