“The Sniper” is on the Irish Civil War and a young sniper and his experience with killing his enemy sniper which he soon finds out is his own brother. “The Snipers shows that war has no boundaries and war turns humans into just objects that you can control. The short story portrays step one of the apocalypses, that the world and the people in it are becoming corrupt. Liam O'Flaherty was trying to tell people that war changes people into an object that you can control and when and human after they have been in war for a long time all they know is war. When the armored car stopped and the turret opened, “Just then an armored car came across the bridge and advanced slowly up the street...then round the corner of a side street came old women...she
