In Liam O’Flaherty’s realistic fiction story “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland.The main character is a young sniper in the civil war going on in Ireland. He fights for the Republican side and he is in a sniper to sniper combat when the story starts. By using description and suspense he portrays the lesson that violence hurts everyone some way and somehow. The story shows violence hurts everyone when the main character shoots his enemy sniper. When the main character shoots the his enemy he is curious about who he shoots since it is a civil war. O’F writes, ”Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” - it wasn’t an enemy it was his brother (). This is significant because it shows that he
