People say warfare is foul and cruel. Liam O’Flaherty would agree that degrading effects on men in war can cause pain to family and one’s self. Soldiers in wars are dehumanize or not regarded as human. O’Flaherty uses internal conflict, mood shift, and imagery to show the dehumanizing effects of war. O’Flaherty’s uses internal conflict of the sniper’s mood after killing his brother, the opposing sniper. The sniper finds joy in killing his enemy at first. “The lust of battle died in him,” this shows that the sniper realize that he’s made a terrible mistake (O’Flaherty 3). After the lust dies in him he is hit with remorse and anger, this shows conflict that harms the family of the sniper. The author’s use of mood shifts in the story to show
