Richie Ren

"American Sniper" movie was based on a true story about Kyle, who wrote an autobiography of his life story. The movie. illustrated Kyle going from childhood to teenage years. As Chris decides to go into the Special Forces, in which the film shows him getting the influence to do such after watching news of the 1998 attack on the U.S. embassy in Kenya. While he training and gaining a new sense of sself in the armed forces, he meets his new wife Taya. Now, 9/11 happens, and after 9/11, the war in Iraq

When I was younger, I used to play football. I was also tall compared to other people in my grade and thought that I was big and bad because a lot of little kids think that way and I was the same way. By thinking that I was all big and bad, I was trying to make myself seem dangerous, but I was not. However, there are people who are actually dangerous, and are able to show it instead of thinking about it and talking about it. For example, the Sniper from “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and Shadowman

Liam O’Flaherty is the author of this short story The Sniper. I enjoyed reading this short story very much. The main character in this story is a Republican sniper, and throughout the story calmly stares into the face of death. This story takes place in Dublin, Ireland, where the Republicans are waging civil war against the Free Staters. In this story our Sniper is having a possibly lethal conflict with another sniper across the street. The other sniper has him pinned down on the rooftop. Unable

Kimberly Barrios 9/3/15 Period 3 “The Sniper” by Liam O’ Flaherty Liam O’ Flaherty is the author of the short story “The Sniper.” The story is about a soldier in Dubai who is in the middle of a civil war with many dangers around him. He eventually get shot in the arm. In a quick moment he plans an escape in which the enemy thinks he has killed the soldier. In a twist, the soldier actually ends up killing the enemy which turns out to be his brother. In “The Sniper”, Liam O’ Flaherty suggests the

The man on the rooftop was dressed completely in black, from his shoes to the suit he was wearing under his knee-length trench coat. He glanced at his watch. 12:05. In another 10 minutes, he would be done with the deed. He turned quickly, coat flailing in the wind, and headed for the stairwell. Once inside, he grabbed his rifle, and the silencer he had recently acquired. He had been practicing his shooting for several weeks to prepare for this moment. He hurried to the window, made sure no

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

All it takes is two pounds of pressure to end a man’s life. As he sat coiled within the shadows of his firing position near the window of his small, rented room, Neiman Kepler could think of nothing else. The butt of his rifle was tucked securely into the pit of his right shoulder, and his lower back was starting to ache from the tension. The sun was slowly rising up from behind the skyline of Old Town Prague, and dawn was unfurling across the city; night was quickly retreating, but it was not yet

The movie shooter is about a former US sniper who is set up to help kill the president. The movie begins with a flashback of Bob Lee Swagger and his partner in war. It shows his buddy getting killed which has a lot of meaning later in the story. Early in the movie Bob is shot and is on the run from the world. He is unable to show his face because it’s all over the news. He is able to find his buddies wife and she helps his wounds and he stays with her. The director does a very unique job creating

There are truly no winners in war. In the short story, “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, war is raging between the Republicans and Free Starters in Dublin, Ireland between the years of 1922-1923. A republican sniper laying on a roof spots an enemy sniper on the roof across the street from him. After failing to kill the enemy sniper at first he finally succeeds. After getting over the initial shock of taking a life, he decides to investigate who he has killed. The sniper turn over the dead body to

The Sniper “The Sniper", in my opinion, is about how ruthless and cunning a war is, especially civil wars, such as the civil war that took place in Ireland that this story focuses on. I say this because this story portrayed a sniper that eventually killed an old woman and even his brother. Not only this, but in the process of killing his brother he even faked his own death to trick him. In the book the main character, the sniper, shows a severe feeling of guilt, which points even more to main of