Richie Ren

“Come on you assholes,” He shouts, opening fire by way of a silent pulse on the unsuspecting Germans the result is mind boggling as every living cell is shut down in their nervous system. Headlights are coming up the road and four soldiers lay on the ground dead. A brilliant spotlight strikes his face, “What’s with these freaking lights,” he mumbles, ducking erratically as the bullets slash past him striking everything. To the edge of the road, he runs tumbling into a ditch where Michelle is waiting

Based on character analysis, “The Sniper” and the “Horseman in the Sky” both clearly reveal a true question of humanity but do so in different ways. Carter Druse, a young wealthy Virginian, and a Republican sniper whose name remains yet unknown, have various similarities and differences in their ways of handling their conflicts. Similarly, both young snipers willing choose to fight in their own civil wars. Carter fighting in the American Civil War, and the sniper fighting in the Irish Republican

.In the story, “The Sniper,” the relationship between the Sniper and his brother affects the story.E. The quote says, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.” C. This proves that the sniper shot his brother on accident, and so clearly the relationship between the sniper and his brother was important. Before the sniper knew that he shot his brother, he was happy because he killed his enemy. But after he figured out that he shot his brother, he was not happy because

Mr Fallas, the defendant, accidentally shot his friend, Mr Mourlas, the plaintiff below, in the leg while hunting kangaroos. At the time of the accident, the four men were participating in an activity referred to as “spotlighting” or shooting kangaroos at night with the aid of a spotlight. Before the activity that took place at 10:30pm, all the men, four in total. Were drinking one or two drinks where Mr Fallas himself had a couple of drinks. The men were driving a vehicle where Fallas was the driver

Liam O’Flaherty’s The Sniper is a simple story of a protagonist unknowingly killing his own brother. According to Northrop Frye, four literary story types exist: Comedy, Romance, Tragedy, and Satire/Irony. The Sniper is not a story about our protagonist succeeding in his journey or emerging victorious from a conflict, so it is not a Comedy or Romance. Also, the protagonist of this story suffers from a defeat worse than death. As a result, this is not a Tragedy either. Therefore, according to Northrop

“Combat veterans are often alienated from the world around them and often become as barbaric and savage as those they oppose.”(Harry Siegel 1)Soldiers sent to war are sent with one goal and one goal only, to defeat the enemy by any means necessary, that also results in the mentality kill or be killed. That is the reality of the main character in “The Sniper”, a young man objectified by combat and the unknown. Through the use of irony, characterization and syntax O’Flaherty shows how the unpredictability

War. What is it good for? According to the 70’s pop song by Edwin Starr, absolutely nothing. In the short story, “The Sniper” the author, Liam O’Flaherty uses indirect characterization, man vs. self conflict and situational irony to show that in war everyone loses. The Sniper goes through a traumatic, mental and physical conflict as he participates in the war. He must encounter just how dangerous it is to be serving in war. Indirect characterization is one of the ways he shows in war everyone loses

The stories, The Sniper and The Scarlet Ibis, are very similar. The sniper is about a true gun was in which two snipers are fighting against each other. The Scarlet Ibis is a similar story in which two brothers work towards a goal in which the younger brother is getting ready to go to school. The ways that these stories are similar are regret, war, and brotherhood. In both stories there was potential regret. The potential regret in the stories are the same they both killed their brother, one more

The war between the republicans and the unionists in Dublin, Ireland gets pretty serious when you read the story (based on an autobiography), "The Sniper" written by Liam O'Flaherty. The republicans want Ireland to stay as a part of the United Kingdom while the unionists want Ireland to be its own country. Because of this war, many people die because of snipers in the army. In my opinion, the sniper can be considered and is a hero. It is because of the reasons he is fighting for, he kills

“It was the most ungrateful and unjust act ever perpetrated by a republic upon a class of citizens who had worked and sacrificed and suffered as did the women of this nation in the struggle of the Civil War only to be rewarded at its close by such unspeakable degradation as to be reduced to the plane of subjects to enfranchised slaves.” The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty is a short story set during the early weeks of the Irish Civil War. The Sniper, a Republican, is the main character in this short story