Liam O'Flaherty

“The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty is a great example of an author using figurative language. Of all types of stories the ones that leaves the reader thinking or wanting more is a story about war or combat. The author of this story uses a great deal of descriptive language and

where the countries are located so that I could, maybe one day, visit the countries. Moving onto the next subject, I enjoy English because I am interested in stories. I encounter stories that I highly appreciate. For example, “The Sniper,” by Liam O'Flaherty had an unexpected plot in the end. After reading it, we had to write a sequel to the story. Since I had a short time, I was not able to finish the sequel and got a low score. I wanted to write more because I had a great idea to create the sequel

Comparing Two Relative Short Stories Have you ever wondered about the differences between the two short stories, “Lather and Nothing Else” by Hernando Tellez and “The Sniper” By Liam O’Flaherty? “Lather and Nothing Else” describes the story of a revolutionary Barber that unluckily comes in contact with his rival and is forced to shave him. He has to decide what he shall do. In “The Sniper”, a sniper faces his rival enemy in a war. He has to have the guts and intelligence to make his decisions and

I remember the first diary assignment that I had in grade three. The instructor asked me to write one hundred words to describe my day every single day. As tiring as it seemed for a third-grader, I have always appreciated my instructor since she introduced me to express myself in words. My experience in writing goes from writing stories to texting on social media and to write cards to people. I view writing as a powerful tool to introduce myself to people, to form relationships, and to communicate

the ability to live a normal life. In the book ‘Catching Falling Stars’ by Karen McCombie, and the T.V series ‘M.A.S.H’ produced by Larry Gelbart we see how war has negative effects on the safety of civilians. In the short story ‘The Sniper’ by Liam o’Flaherty and the T.V series ‘M.A.S.H’ produced by Larry Gelbart we can see how in war, people are forced to be brave