Liam O'Flaherty

The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty takes place in the early weeks of the Irish Civil War, during the Battle of Dublin. O’FLaherty’s main character, a Republican sniper, is laying down, armed and on the lookout. The fight begins immediately after the sniper lights a cigarette, giving away his position, and compromising his operation. The sniper acts quickly, killing two men shortly after being wounded himself. The story takes a quick turn after we soon realize who the man had killed. I love this story because the actions of the main character building up to the intense ending, with one of the most interesting plot twists I’ve ever read or heard of. The idea that these two sides of the battle can be made up of people…

John .F. Kennedy one said "Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind." Although war has destroyed many homes, towns, cities, and countries,it most importantly it destroys people. In this story, a lone sniper fights for what he believes in. The sniper is shown struggling as he fights to escape the enemy's sniper. In the short story,"The Sniper," Liam O'Flaherty uses setting, imagery, and pacing to create a feeling of suspense for the reader. The setting of the story is…

The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty,Suspense Set during the weeks of the long and horrible irish civil war.A brave soldier fight’s back almost getting himself killed multiple times,the confused but brave sniper ends up killing his brother over the war.”Almost immediately,a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof” (O’flaherty page 1) In The Sniper the author creates suspense by the use of timing,action and word choice. The author uses…

In this suspenseful novel, The Sniper, by Liam O'Flaherty you will see how the author uses words to speed up, slow down the tempo, and use a rapid succession of conflicts in his story to see how he creates the theme of suspense. In his story, a student is waiting on a building in the middle of a war between the Free-staters and Republicans. It tells of how he faces danger many times throughout and what obstacles he goes through like being shot at by another sniper only to find out that the other…

The realistic fiction story “The Sniper” by Liam O'Flaherty occurs in Dublin, Ireland during a civil war. It begins with a sniper on a roof during the night and there was hardly anyone on the streets. He is hidden on a rooftop eating a sandwich and scouring for threats. The author creates an eerie environment and also uses irony to create the theme that a person needs to think before acting. The Sniper, not thinking about his actions, results in consequences for himself. An example of this…

The Girl’s Scene with the Red Coat in Schindler 's List The scene featuring the girl with the red coat in Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is of the most recognizable scenes in late twentieth century cinema. It is often understood to encapsulate key aspects of the Holocaust, its brutality, and its effects on the lives of the people caught up within it. At the time, the scene deals with the paradoxes of memory, memorial and what may appear to be a sense of personal inability when…

shows me that they see my potential. Things are going good, so far, the one part of this internship that I see myself taking time to get use to is working at a desk all day. From time to time members of the team and I walk around the building and socialize with employees’, it is like a mental break. I am an active student so I do not find much thrill in staring at a computer for eight hours, however, this is still a great opportunity to improve my knowledge and computer skills; so I will take…

Schindler 's List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) is perhaps one of the greatest films in the late twentieth-century cinema. It encapsulates the brutality of the Holocaust as it evokes memories of atrocities of the World War II and a sense of inability to save innocent people. The film is shot in monochrome as Spielberg thinks it is more "realistic" and “closer to [a] documentary” of that time (Shandler 156). According to Jeremy Maron, Schindler 's List should primarily be understood as a melodrama; a…

“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” This quote was by John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961. What Kennedy is trying to imply is that war can take control over a man’s actions and perspective when faced with the supremacy of the battlefield and this will result in destruction of mankind. Kennedy’s philosophy relates to Liam O’Flaherty short story and Tom Hardy’s poem. In “ The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty and “ The Man He Killed” By…

In “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty, the central idea of the story is war changes people. War changes people because at the beginning of the story “he finished the sandwich taking a flask of whiskey from his pocket”(O’Flaherty 1). When a person is in the military using a high powered weapon for example; sniper, machine gun,assault rifle, etc. You would expect that person to be 100% sober and not under the influence of anything.To show how war changes people at the end, the sniper had shot…