Richie Ren

Shooter War is truly violent and awful job, especially for a sniper. Shooter is about a Marine scout sniper named Jack Coughlin that plays a small role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. His new style of urban sniping makes it much easier for his fellow Marines. He takes out threats before they can even come close to his men. He is at the front of the action as the ¾ battalion moves from town to town on a campaign to Baghdad. In this journal, I will visualize a sandstorm, clarifying Jack meeting the

American Sniper is based on a book written by Chris Kyle that is a memoir, he talks about what had happen while he was stationed in Iraq, the people he lost, the things he had to go through. Chris Kyle, in the movie it begins with him and his little brother, we see that his father is the abusive type and Chris has always been one to measure up to his father's likings. When Chris’s job of a rodeo clown doesn't work he sees how america keeps having things happen so he decides to join the U.S Navy Seals

Flaherty's, “The Sniper” represents the pain, physically and mentally war inflicts on a soldier. The short story takes place at night in Dublin, Ireland at night, during the Irish Civil War. There are two sides that divide Ireland in half. They are the Free-Staters and the Republicans. The story starts with the Republican sniper eating on a rooftop. He decides he wants to light a cigaret even though it might be risky. As soon as he lights the match he hears gunshots and hides. He looks up and the

their surroundings grim and lifeless despite the frivolity they boasted in the daytime, there was a set of footsteps that tapped through the hedges. To the untrained ear it would have been imperceptible. “How do you know it isn’t just some drunk richie lost in the gardens?” Lazarus questioned, but he lowered his voice as well. “Listen” Gregory stressed, and they both lapsed into silent

The New York Times Bestselling book American Sniper is an Autobiography.Written by The main character who is a sniper that went overseas and earned the nickname “the legend” after the impressive number of kills he made during his time as a seal. The main characters conflicts and resolutions take place between the writer and his family and in my “opinion” the conflicts and resolutions in this book is what makes the message. This book mainly takes place in Iraq and different cities in Iraq such as

A thick cloud of dust is present in the air above him. The sounds of hollering, gunshots and deafening noises can be heard in every corner of the dark forest. He’s covered in his own blood and those of innocent people he had to kill. He’s clinging onto his gun with all his might; it’s the only hope of survival he has left. The taste of death is pungent and overwhelming making him dizzy and it’s slowing him down. “P-taff!” His eyelids then close and his body falls numb, he’s dead before the sound

In short stories, many people may overlook how greatly an author described the setting. It is important that a well-thought-out framework is included in a piece of literature. “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, gives a fair setting of Dublin, Ireland at the break of the night. On a rooftop, across the large city street, the sniper unknowingly faced his brother. They’re inevitably against one another, both now torn apart by civil war. The night they clashed was what the author seemingly described the

Inside a Sniper’s mind Most people agree that a soldier is still a human when at war. O’Flaherty, however, may say that war turns humans into soldiers that kill without remorse until they have realized they just took human lives. Furthermore, O’Flaherty depicts said soldiers as having little regard for human beings. Using irony and foreshadowing in his short story “The Sniper” O’Flaherty shows that war turns a person into an unpredictable soldier that views people as objects. O’Flaherty uses dramatic

The story the sniper is a suspenseful short story written by Liam O'Flaherty. The story is about a republican sniper that has the face of a scholar that is involved in the Irish civil war. The story the sniper uses suspenseful phrases such as hurriedly, immediately, suddenly, and slowly to describe the pace of the story. The thesis of The Sniper is that the story uses timing to create suspense. The story the sniper uses back to back action to create suspense. One example of this in the story the

“The Sniper” In 1919, the Irish Civil War had begun, and it had all started because the Irish wanted to separate from Britain. The two sides during the war, were The IRA and The Free Staters. In “The Sniper” Liam O’Flaherty uses scenes of violence to illustrate the theme: “War divides brothers”. Use of conflict. “Suddenly from the opposite roof a shot rang out and the sniper dropped his rifle with a curse”. (O’Flaherty 1) This shows that the IRA Sniper was willing to reveal himself, just for