Liam O'Flaherty

Throughout a person’s life, they’ll change, both physically and mentally. This transformation or change can be great, or it can be terrible, such is evident in the short story by Liam O’Flaherty called “The Sniper.” “The Sniper” takes place in Dublin, Ireland 1922 during the Irish Civil War. One night he was shot at by an enemy sniper and was hit once in his left arm. He used a ruse to kill the enemy sniper and when he found out the identity of his kill he was immediately remorseful. Over the…

Irish Civil War, where two opposing snipers sit atop two roofs across the street from each other. At the end of the story the main protagonist, a young republican sniper, cleverly outsmarts the opposing sniper, unknowingly killing his own brother. Liam O’Flaherty’s “The Sniper” conveys the horrors of war not only by presenting its physical dangers, but also by showing its psychological effects. The short story “The Sniper” presents the physical dangers of war. The story takes place during a…

Liam O’ Flaherty’s realistic fiction takes place in Dublin Ireland where there is a lot of fighting. Snipers who lurk in the dark fight in a civil war. As the snipers move through the night they hunt down people to win their civil war between two sides of Dublin. Even though these people are fighting for their lives some do not think hard before acting. Liam O’Flaherty teaches his readers that thinking before acting can cause regret, and he shows this lesson through Irony and foreshadowing.…

Liam O’Flaherty manipulates figurative language in his writing style to allow the reader vivid insight into the tumultuous realm of the protagonist. O’Flaherty demonstrates the devices of personification and simile to illustrate a scene that entails, “Around the beleaguered Four Courts the heavy guns roared. Here and there through the city, machine guns and rifles broke the silence of the night, spasmodically, like dogs barking on a lone farm” (437). O’Flaherty appears keen on describing the…

Sniper”, Liam O’Flaherty tells a story of these very threats in which a young sniper is eager to participate in a civil war in Dublin, Ireland. The soldier constantly encounters danger wherever he goes. As he faces the battle, he gets hurt and experiences the effect of the war because in the end, it turned him against his own brother. This short story illustrates the horrors of war and reveals the physical and psychological scars a soldier is left with after battle. Firstly, O'Flaherty writes…

The majority of imagery he uses is based on such senses as sight and sound. Describing the horror of the atmosphere that surrounding the protagonist, O’Flaherty, makes it very clear to imagine the world that the sniper lives in. Reading the story from the first lines you get surrounded by feeling of fear and horror of war. For example: “The long June twilight faded into night. Dublin lay enveloped in darkness”…

[his mind, and] he could make nothing of all of his thoughts, but a lump always came up his throat,” (O’Flaherty 134) and the mother was “unable to think intelligibly about her two children going away” (O’Flaherty 139). Yet, for the children, it was about the potential for a better life, because the only thing people got out of the land was “poverty and hard work and potatoes and salt” (O’Flaherty 136). Different from the parents, the son “felt very strong and manly recounting what he was…

beings. Like in Liam O'Flaherty's short story “The Sniper”, the Republican finds himself stranded on a rooftop in a situation where he has to kill or be killed. His flight or fight instincts kick in and he has no other choice than to fight; his decisions decided the fate of himself and his enemies. The worst sides of the Republican and Free-Stater are brought out when he has to defeat his rival and deal with his overwhelming guilt when a civil war breaks out in Liam O’Flaherty “The Sniper”.…

“The Sniper” is a short story written by Liam O’Flaherty, a sniper who is Republican takes his rifle and stations himself on the roof without making any noise, waiting to take down his enemies. He sniper unintentionally gives up his secret location when he sparks a cigarette and reveals to the rival sniper on the other roof. Both snipers start a shoot off using both their shooting powers and sharpness. The Republican sniper think up a great idea and efficiently guns down the enemy sniper. The…

life. This can affect people in many ways, for some it can become motivation and for others it can be an excuse to give up. Two stories that go along with the a troubling time is “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell and “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty. In “The Most Dangerous Game” it is about a man, Sanger Rainsford, who ends up on an island and meets General Zaroff and Ivan. Thinking he is safe, he soon learns that General Zaroff is a fan of hunting people and that he is going to be his…