Trauma In The Sniper

People sometimes feel like after a particular event they will never be the same person again.. that is trauma. Trauma is something very difficult for people to go through. Trauma is not something people want to wish on anybody, not even on a person’s worst enemy. Trauma can be handled very differently depending on the situation. Likewise, shown in articles “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and “For Soldiers with PTSD, a Profound Daily Struggle” it contrasts how trauma can be shown in two different ways and how some people are impacted by it contrastively. Many people perceive trauma in a very distinct way, that only the person going through it will understand. For some people there are a vary of compact situations leading up to their trauma. Almost like a bomb just very slowly waiting to go off. This is shown in the story “The Sniper” by …show more content…
It all started off as the Sniper was in battle and he was trying to kill his enemy. When he shot his gun to his target and later “when the smoke cleared, he peered across and uttered a cry of joy. His enemy [has] been hit”(O’Flaherty). Little does the Sniper know that he is just half of a fraction away from his long life trauma experience. Because what the Sniper does not know is that his enemy, is really not his enemy.. but his brother. Moving on, trauma is distinguished much more differently in the article “For Soldier with PTSD, a Profound Daily Struggle”. This trauma is characterized as the type of trauma that Veterans go through after the war. This trauma is very different from the The