The Sniper Foreshadowing Analysis

People like to talk about war and winning wars but most forget about the inevitable consequences. Liam O’ Flaherty would agree with that and might say sacrifice is bigger than the ultimate goal. Death is inevitable in war and the sacrifice is more important than winning. The unpredictability of war can lead to the dehumanizing of soldiers and away from their sense of life. Liam O’Flaherty conveys the guilt produced by the unpredictability of war through his use of foreshadowing and imagery in The Sniper.
O’ Flaherty uses images of the two houses to show where the sniper and his brother were which foreshadows his brother’s death this leads into the unpredictability of war and what can lead from it. While he was on the roof he thought to himself “He wondered did he know him.” The quote of him wondering who it was and if he knows him foreshadows the fact that he just killed his brother. O’ Flaherty makes the sniper not care at all when he killed him because there was still fighting going on and he did not want to die but as soon as the fighting stopped his love for war stopped and felt bad for the guy which led to the foreshadowing of his brother’s death. O’ Flaherty uses the foreshadowing of his brother’s death to show that it can …show more content…
The narrator foreshadows the brother’s death after the soldier is back to his regular state by him wondering who he killed even though he had never thought of it before. The imagery of the setting conveyed the soldier not caring about anything but killing his opponent when he was dehumanizing but came back to his normal state when he killed him. While the shooting and killing didn’t matter before the unpredictability that he shot his own brother was the consequence in the