O'Flaherty

was hit in his arm and he raises his hat and when the enemy fires at it he lets the hat and his gun fall leading the enemy to belive he was hit. His ability to keep his calm was the main factor in his survival.      Liam O'Flaherty uses a lot of description with no direct speech, not even what the sniper is thinking to himself. The story is told in a narative style this give us a more descriptive plot we learn all the details of the story, without any direct speech. The Most

authors still praised her as a realist. Kate Chopin was a masterful colorist representing her personal and professional Louisiana life, and labeled writings with unpleasantness. Kate O’Flaherty was brought to the world on February 8, 1851 in St. Louis, Missouri. Born to her parents Eliza Faris and Thomas O’Flaherty . Her father, Thomas, was an irish-born business man for the family. He died in a railroad accident when Kate was only five years old. Her mother’s side

In the short story, The Sniper, O’Flaherty explored the theme that a person’s desire to live can consume all of his or her humanity. One example of the theme was when the sniper shot and killed an old woman when she told an enemy tank his location. “The sniper fired again. The woman whirled around and fell with a shriek…” Although the old woman was threatening his life by informing on him, killing an old woman in any situation should be a traumatic experience for anyone, particularly a younger soldier

sniper that was an enemy, they were both on top of rooftops trying to take each other out. ¨Taking off his cap,...he pushed the rifle slowly upward over the parapet until the cap was visible...a bullet pierced the center of the cap¨- Narrator ( O'Flaherty 3). Thus, the IRA sniper had to ponder of a plan to kill the opposing sniper, the only way to do that was to supposedly get ¨shot¨ by the other sniper. The IRA sniper before all this got shot on his dominant arm, the right one. He needed that

As General Sherman of the American Civil War once stated, “War is hell.” In the short stories “The Sniper,” by Liam O’Flaherty, and “Cranes,” by Hwang Sunwon, characters suffer from divided loyalties during civil war. Through their situations, conflicts, and resolutions, both stories successfully illuminate the theme of the cruelty of war-especially civil war, but the short story “The Sniper” is more effective, because the sniper shot his own brother because he was the enemy. “Cranes sets friend

In the story The Sniper by Liam O'Flaherty is about a Republican sniper watching over Dublin, Ireland. The story is set in the Irish Civil War. The author uses mood and foreshadowing to show and tell that war tears families apart. The central issue is about the Irish civil war and people killing and hurting each other. For example, in the beginning it states “Republicans and free staters were waging civil war.” (1). This illustrates that there is a civil war going on and people are dying for their

The story, “The Sniper” is written by Liam O’Flaherty and is an action based story that involves war with two men. In this story, there is a Republican sniper that is being shot at by another sniper. The Republican sniper gets shot in the arm but in the end he kills the sniper which is his brother. Timing, pacing, and conflicts cause a lot of suspense throughout the story. Suspense is created in the story by using timing and pacing. The many rapid timing moments create a lot of suspense throughout

In the short stories, The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty and Supper Waltz Wilson by Owen Marshall, young people are affected by external forces. As young people get older there are many things/external forces that affect and influence them on their path to adulthood. In Supper Waltz Wilson, the main character Supper Waltz (Stuart Wilson) is affected by his father, Mr Wilson, whereas Supper Waltz’s best friend Hughie is affected by Supper Waltz. In The Sniper, the main character, the Sniper, is affected

The themes and the conclusions of both stories show the difference of a brother against brother and son against a father in a war. It is an example of things that can happen during war, also things that can be an example of decisions made by accident or purposful. Either way if you were to shoot an enemy and it turned out to be your kin and they die you will live with the guild for the rest of your life. The civil war divides families because the members of the family could all share different beliefs

Chopin ends her story saying, “When the doctors came they said she had died of heart disease— of joy that kills.” We may ponder over what kind of a joy it is that becomes the cause of one’s demise. About the author Kate Chopin was born Katherine O’Flaherty at St. Louis, Missouri in the year