Liam O'Flaherty

Importance of theme using “The Sniper” In the story “Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty. The reader is introduced a central theme of the story, which is that Violence is something people can not control. One way this theme is evident is through how the main character got shot. Another way the theme is developed is how the character shot the targets. Throughout the story, the author refers to the characters feelings and thoughts which further develops the theme. The theme is significant because it is a…

The theme of “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty is that war reduces human beings to mere objects. to further explain it is that they have no names, no faces. That they are just targets and nothing more, to be shot at from a distance. Without knowing who are you shooting and knowing if they’re going yours or if their your friends or family. And there is no no winners,regardless of who you kills more people or takes more land. And the war knows no boundaries,age,gender,location, time of the day or…

and how war can destroy relationships between people. What Kennedy is trying to convey is that war executing is the lives of not only people participating in war, but mankind in general. Kennedy’s logic relates to the short story, The Sniper by Liam O’Flaherty, as well as the poem, “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy. They relate because both the horrific effects war can have on friends and family. In both the short story and the poem, the authors convey that war is a terrible…

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…

In “The Sniper” Liam O’Flaherty suggests the horror of war not only by presenting its physical dangers but also by showing its psychological effects. “The Sniper” illustrates a sniper’s point of view of the civil war. In “The Sniper”, the sniper goes through many physical dangers. “Almost immediately, a bullet flattened itself against the parapet of the roof. The sniper took another whiff and put out the cigarette”. The sniper lighted the cigarette knowing that it was risky, then his enemy…

Fear is a feeling everyone encounters at some point in their lifetime. Fear is a feeling that one’s body produces in threatening and frightening situations. It is an ability to identify danger in order to make a decision for either confronting the fear or fleeing the situation. The choice is entirely left to the victim. The stories “The Sniper” and “The Most Dangerous Game” have exceedingly similar themes, each main character within each story sets aside their fears in order to survive the cruel…

Many authors use description in their stories to create an affect on the reader such as Alice walker in “The Flowers” and Liam O'Flaherty in “The Sniper” but Gary Paulsen's story, “The Dogs Could Teach me”, demonstrated description the finest. Gary Paulsen's use of description in his story “The Dogs Could Teach Me”, had a huge impact on the reader in detail, compared to Alice Walker’s story. In his short story it states, “The trail crossed the stream directly at the top of a small frozen…

that is what make a person Weak or strong in society.Resilience is that aspect that makes people tougher and Makes them choose to push through or stop their lives to deal with the problem. But the characters in the sniper from ( The Sniper) By Liam O'Flaherty and Bex from (Radical) By E.M Kokie. Are both two examples of people who show their toughness by proving they can handle some of life's pain, and through the way that they don’t allow distractions of Pain or the Pain of others distract…

form of ending in which the reader must find their own resolution through the information gathered throughout the story. These kinds of endings, when done incorrectly, can leave the reader feeling cheated. but writers such as Frank Stockton, Liam O’Flaherty, or James Hurst, create an atmosphere of mystery and suspense, while still giving the reader the resolution that they crave. Many stories without proper endings do not have as fulfilling resolutions, In “The Lady or the Tiger,” by Frank…

Turret Gunner: Man shot by the IRA sniper. Old Woman: Informer who betrays the position of the IRA sniper to the turret gunner. Unseen Machine Gunner: Person who fires at the IRA sniper after the latter leaves the roof. Point of View .......O'Flaherty wrote "The Sniper" in limited third-person point of view, in which he presents the thoughts of the IRA sniper but does not present the thoughts of any other character. He wrote "The Sniper" while Ireland was embroiled in sectarian conflict.…