The Sniper Literary Analysis

Todays 21st century is vastly changing, especially the youth is growing up way too quickly. The primary theme of “The Sniper,” is that in order to save lives, people do what is necessary. Society also needs to take into account that our technology is always changing, becoming improved and more dangerous. When it comes to fighting, someone will not always have the time to think things through so that is why you need to be able to reason fast. O’Flaherty uses the setting, the plot summary and allegory to prove that someone does what they have to, to survive. The background against which the action of a work takes place is called the setting. The setting in “The Sniper,” is the Irish Civil War, going on in Dublin, Ireland. During any war, lots of men become wounded or killed. Since, a war going on it supports the theme because our country has soldiers fighting to protect. The plot of the story is the way in which the events of the story are arranged, “on a rooftop near O’Connell Bridge, a Republican sniper lay …show more content…
It was dangerous. The flash might be seen in the darkness, and there were enemies watching.” After taking the risk of having a smoke, an enemy sniper took a shot, “almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof.” After taking cover from the enemy sniper, he noticed a car, “the gray monster,” that was about fifty yards away who was talking to an old woman in which the Republican sniper shot her but only to get attacked by the enemy sniper that shot his forearm. With his possibly fractured arm, shaking with recoil of his last shot as he pulled the trigger and watched the enemy lain still, and that was when he looked into his brothers face. It was vital for him to take out those