Liam O’ Flaherty’s realistic fiction takes place in Dublin Ireland where there is a lot of fighting. Snipers who lurk in the dark fight in a civil war. As the snipers move through the night they hunt down people to win their civil war between two sides of Dublin. Even though these people are fighting for their lives some do not think hard before acting. Liam O’Flaherty teaches his readers that thinking before acting can cause regret, and he shows this lesson through Irony and foreshadowing. In the story “The Sniper” the theme that Flaherty uses shows the dangers of not thinking. One act of not thinking by the first sniper was when he decides to have a cigarette. This illustrates a dangerous act because he knows that he was behind enemy
