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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    Literary Analysis Final of “The Sniper” Do you think that war can destroy families tragically. I do not think that war is a good thing. In appearance in I do not think that war is a good thing. The theme of fear/power appears in the sniper through the dramatic events of war. First the sniper is shot and a bullet just flies over his head appears in the sniper through the dramatic events of war. The story says that there was a flash and a bullet flies over his head he dropped immediately. Fear

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    The theme of the short story “The Sniper,” is that People in the world and in war are referred to as objects and numbers ( according to the government.)To further explain it is that they have no names, no faces. That they are just targets and nothing more, to be shot at from a distance. To support this theme Liam O'Flaherty refrains to any of his characters. The rising action is the battle between the enemies and the sniper himself. The climax is when the sniper finally kills his enemy; after being

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    In the story “ The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty. The reader is introduced to a central theme of the story, which is that war is hard to be in. One way this theme is evident is through the middle of the story. Another way the theme is developed is by the main character's decision, the sniper. In the story the author refers to the sniper being use to seeing death which further develops the theme. In the beginning of the story the author says “the snipers face is the face of a man who is used to seeing

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