Richie Ren

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…

ALTERNATIVE ENDING IRA Smith was slowly sinking into the quicksand. “Help me, get out of here!” he yelled. “You will be repaid, I promise!” I grabbed his rifle from the ground, as thoughts flew through my head. Two minutes ago he just tried to kill me. Mando’s death was his fault. I couldn’t trust him any more. No matter what he offered I pointed the barrel of the rifle at him. “You don’t understand what you’re doing, kid. Do you really think a bullet can kill me? Hand me a vine. Fast!” he was…

In a time of war anything can happen, especially during a civil war. In this short story there are two snipers, the Republican and the Free Stater, an old woman, and a third man. Both snipers are on roofs on opposite sides from each other in Dublin, Ireland. An armored car crosses O’Connell Bridge and stops just below the sniper’s position. An old woman with a shawl around her head comes out of a side street to talk with a man in the turret of the armored car. The sniper wants to shoot at the…

Throughout the article, “‘I Just Wanted to Live’ Says Man Who Wrested Rifle From Waffle House Gunman,” the author, Alan Blinder, describes how a brave man stepped up and saved many people’s lives during a terrific shooting. On an average Sunday in Downtown Nashville, an awful and horrific occurred at a popular Waffle House. Suddenly, a gunman shot the restaurant’s windows out and continued to fire his rifle toward the customers. Luckily, the gunman ran out of bullets; therefore, he decided to…

“The Sniper” and the “Horseman in the Sky” consist of two extremely meaningful characters. Carter Druse, a young wealthy Virginian, and a Republican sniper, have various similarities and differences on their ways of handling their conflicts. In these two short stories they are both young snipers. Beside, having the same occupation, as being a sniper, they both are faced with the same conflict… killing a family member. Carter Druse, a sniper who is fighting for the Union, while his father is…

One conflict that was resolved and lead to a theme in “The Sniper” by Liam O’Flaherty would be when the republican soldier was shot by the enemy in the forearm but thought of a plan and killed the other soldier because he’s taught to not let his emotions get in the way of his job. It was unfair that he was put to a disadvantage, but he had to deal with it in order to kill the other soldier, who was firing at him, and in order to survive. Being shot is a major conflict in “The Sniper”, not only…

In the short story of “Cranes” and “The Sniper,” they have their differences, but they also have similarities. “Cranes” and “The Sniper” are two stories, with two main characters, all having to choose between wars. “Cranes” is about two friends that met in the wrong way after a long time of not seeing each other. “The Sniper” is about an unflinching young man who was stationed on a rooftop in Ireland. Both stories have a relation to the other character in the story. “Cranes” is the old friend,…

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…

In the short story The Sniper and the poem The Man He Killed, authors Liam O’Flaherty and Thomas Hardy send the message that war influences people to perform actions that they would never repeat in other circumstances, ripping families apart and destroying lives. Both authors use the literary device of irony to convey their points. In The Sniper, a sniper shoots and kills an enemy before he “[turns] over the dead body and looked into his brother’s face”. O’Flaherty expresses the sentiment that…

Reading Log #1 Response Waiting, in anticipation, for president kennedy’s motorcade, I set up my camera to take a home movie of the president parading down elm street. I hear shouting as I see him in the distance, soon his red convertible drives into my camera’s view and I hear a gunshot go off, BANG people look around in confusion… My view of kennedy is obstructed by a sign as I hear another shot go off, but when he emerges into my view he is keeling down in pain. A few seconds later, I jostle…