Liam O'Flaherty

When a person is faced with adversity, they must use their strengths to power through it and come out on top. In Liam O’Flaherty’s, “The Sniper”, the republican sniper has to risk his life fighting for his people with the risk of him getting killed at any moment. In Richard Connell’s, “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford, a big-game hunter, must use his prior knowledge to try and escape the island without getting killed by General Zaroff. At the start of “The Most Dangerous Game”, Rainsford…

In the narrative The Sniper, which is written by Liam O'Flaherty, is about a war in which Republicans and Free state people are going into war. The sniper end up shooting an enemy from the other side and at the end he realizes he is his brother. Yet, in the narrative The Scarlet Ibis by James Hurst, is about an older brother that has a younger brother, Doodle, who cannot walk and the older brother tries to help him walk, but they have many difficulties on the way. Some things that both of the…

in the two short stories, “The Most Dangerous Game,” and “The Sniper,” is the evil nature of war. A person was born good but many things can influence them to think differently and become aggressive. For example, in the story ‘The Sniper’ by Liam O’Flaherty states, “Then the sniper turned over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face” (215). This is the most important…

Suspense is a feeling you get as you watch a person walk through a forest in the dead of night, a shark fin circle the swimmer, or a sniper take a breath before the shot. In the story “The Sniper,” by Liam O’Flaherty, there are many moments of suspense. Suspense to me is the feeling of uncertainty and anxiousness you feel about what might happen. 3 moments of suspense that caught my attention are, right before the sniper flipped over his brother’s lifeless body, when he shot the man in the…

In the passage “The Sniper”, Liam O’Flaherty’s main idea is no matter where you come from or what your beliefs are, you really aren’t all that different from other people. This is proved by a Republican sniper and a Free State sniper shooting each other, causing the Free State sniper…

takes place in an Irish civil war, where the country had split into two parities, the Free Staters and the Republicans. Everyone was dragged into the war, and families were broken apart as they possibly went to different parties. In “The Sniper,” Liam O’Flaherty suggests the horror of war not only by representing its physical dangers, but also by its psychological effects. In war, there is a constant sense of danger, however, the sniper also had to deal with direct dangers. In the background,…

The free staters want to agree to Britain's rules, and still be a territory of Britain but have a little more freedom. The Irish Republicans want total freedom from Britain they want to become totally separate. The short story “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty uses the scenes of violence to depict that war is not always for a good cause, by giving the readers a mental picture of what is happening. In the short story it is the Irish free staters versus the Irish Republicans, notice the correlation…

feeling in his arm. Although he has been shot he is still brave enough to keep fighting against his enemy. The narrator continues to fight his enemy until he is able to kill him. He was in a lot of pain “He ground his teeth to overcome the pain” (O’Flaherty 3). The narrator did not want to feel pain anymore, so he would ground his teeth into his jacket he was wearing to overcome the pain for a little bit while he wrapped a ripped piece of shirt around it to stop the bleeding. According to this…

Although the only thing war is capable of doing is determining who is left instead of who is right; it changes people to the worst, which the texts “The Sniper” and “War is Kind” are all about. The short story “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty is about a man who has the position of a sniper in the war. He risks taking a cigarette, and is spotted by an enemy sniper. After the shooting they did, the Republican sniper finally manages to kill the other sniper and instantly regrets it. The story…

War stories are gruesome. They capture the reality of war--death, grief, and pain. “The Sniper” and “Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?” (by Liam O’Flaherty and Tim O’Brien respectively) are both shining examples of this; unpacking the glorification of victory to reveal how humans are dehumanized and trained to kill other people. Their differences outline a common theme: how war dehumanizes people from killing and guilt, and how that all builds into a catastrophe later on in life. “The…