This realistic fiction short story “The Sniper” written by Liam O’Flaherty, features an Irish sniper in a war-torn Dublin. The narrator in this story takes part in an intensely violent sniper battle between him, another sniper, and even a machine gunner. In the passage he ends up doing something he will later on regret because of his own actions. O'Flaherty uses irony and word choice in the story to emphasize the theme that violence hurts everyone involved.
Violence is evident throughout the short story and affects all the characters. The sniper's job is to kill, therefore, in order for him to do that people are going to end up hurt. For example, the sniper ends up shooting a machine gunner from the opposing army. In addition, he is hurt because …show more content…
The ironic sentences, “The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his revolver above the edge of the parapet.”(3) and, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.”(4), show him being happy about unknowingly killing his brother. Since he is so eager to do violence, he does not realize that hurting the other sniper, gives potential for him to get hurt. O’Flaherty uses the ironic sentences in his story to show how him being violent not only the person he hurt but also himself. His use of irony is not the only craft move he uses to elaborate the theme. His use of word choice helps show how violence hurts everyone. The author uses word choice in this sentence, “ He soon became bitten by remorse.”(3), which shows how he is hurt by regret because it is another human being that he killed. This connects to the theme because the author's word choice of remorse show how it hurt the sniper by making him feel remorseful and the other person by actually killing him. Through the story, O’Flaherty uses word choice and irony to convey his theme.
In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, the author conveys is that people are hurt in many ways by violence. This is shown in the parts of the story about him being affected in different ways by violence. Additionally, varying craft moves such as irony and word choice help further the theme. Think about this, if people
Violence is evident throughout the short story and affects all the characters. The sniper's job is to kill, therefore, in order for him to do that people are going to end up hurt. For example, the sniper ends up shooting a machine gunner from the opposing army. In addition, he is hurt because …show more content…
The ironic sentences, “The Republican sniper smiled and lifted his revolver above the edge of the parapet.”(3) and, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother's face.”(4), show him being happy about unknowingly killing his brother. Since he is so eager to do violence, he does not realize that hurting the other sniper, gives potential for him to get hurt. O’Flaherty uses the ironic sentences in his story to show how him being violent not only the person he hurt but also himself. His use of irony is not the only craft move he uses to elaborate the theme. His use of word choice helps show how violence hurts everyone. The author uses word choice in this sentence, “ He soon became bitten by remorse.”(3), which shows how he is hurt by regret because it is another human being that he killed. This connects to the theme because the author's word choice of remorse show how it hurt the sniper by making him feel remorseful and the other person by actually killing him. Through the story, O’Flaherty uses word choice and irony to convey his theme.
In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, the author conveys is that people are hurt in many ways by violence. This is shown in the parts of the story about him being affected in different ways by violence. Additionally, varying craft moves such as irony and word choice help further the theme. Think about this, if people